With COVID on the rise, Highlands’ rental business is booming and the real estate market is changing. Vacationers, short-term renters, and new homeowners have decided to escape quarantine in their home states and make Highlands […]
Here is yet another photo that illustrates trash disposal problems that a small number of residents continue to generate. Yes, I and the board might be viewed as garbage nazis by some with the passage […]
Tonight is the November meeting of the Highlands Town Board of Commissioners. It begins at 7 p.m. by way of Zoom. The Zoom information is on the town website (and pictured at the bottom of […]
A picture is worth a thousand words, or at least 500. The photo of an overstuffed bear resistant garbage toter that was placed on the road Sunday afternoon illustrates a growing problem in Highlands. I […]
I was gratified to see the Town Board vote at last Thursday’s meeting to require the wearing of face masks on all commercial sidewalks. Board members and I had been receiving concerns about people not […]
Commissioners came to a consensus at the July Town Board meeting on Thursday that the deadline for residential trash pickup customers to purchase bear-resistant toters remains fixed on Aug. 1, but enforcement will not begin […]
Let me again thank those folks who care for the health and safety of their fellow citizens by wearing masks. Research is very clear that wearing masks is a very basic, and effective way of […]
This week’s article is a collection of informational items. I hope they are helpful. The recycle trailer is still operative at the Highlands Recreation Center. Some folks thought it had been removed when the garbage […]
Public Works Committee talks trash pickup The proposed lightning up of Main Street will not happen this year, so says Mayor Pat Taylor after a meeting with Town and Highlands Chamber of Commerce/Visitor Center staff […]