The Highlander, Highlands, North Carolina

Residents came out Saturday morning for the annual Highlands School Color Run.

The new Town Christmas tree was delivered and planted on Friday in Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park. The tree, which was grown and dug from Georgia, is a Norway evergreen.

Celebrating 70 years

For more than 70 years now, Jack and Joy Wood are not only a happily married couple, but best friends.

Volunteers sought for Plateau Pickup

The annual Plateau Pickup will be held April 21, and volunteers are in high demand for the event.

Businesses collaborate for Smart City

With the Town of Highlands’ pending partnership with Wide Open Networks still in the negotiation phase, the area’s three internet service providers and cable TV companies have been invited to team up with the town’s pending new partner.

News

Colors that run

Residents came out Saturday morning for the annual Highlands School Color Run.

By Tesa Glass

Welcoming a new tree

The new Town Christmas tree was delivered and planted on Friday in Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park. The tree, which was grown and dug from Georgia, is a Norway evergreen.

By Tesa Glass

Building projects moving forward

A building project at Reeves Ace Hardware were among three projects that received a green light, but not without stipulations from the Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Adjustment.

By Tesa Glass

Opinion

Mayor on Duty

I have been in my workshop this week fabricating pickup sticks for the anticipated hordes of volunteers for the Highlands Plateau Pickup. Please join us this Saturday, April 21.

Mayor on Duty

Mark Twain allegedly mused that people were the, “vermin of the earth.” When one sees all the trash on the corridor highways to Highlands, it is hard to disagree with Twain.

Help prevent child abuse

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Child abuse and neglect shouldn’t happen in our country, but it does. And it happens closer to home than we like to think.

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Sports

Kenter wins gold, swims past rivals

Chase Kenter is a real-live Aquaman.

Jordan Carrier scored 27 points against Blue Ridge.

Lady Highlanders fall in tourney third round

The clock finally struck midnight on the Highlands Lady Highlanders’ Cinderella season as they fell in the third round of the Class 1A North Carolina High School Athletics Association state tournam

The Lady Highlanders won the Little Smoky Mountain Conference tournament last Thursday.

Lady Highlanders win conference, advance in state

Highlands School’s Lady Highlanders withstood a furious charge from Blue Ridge Early College to advance in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state basketball playoff tournament, d