This artists rendering shows what an expanded Highlands Performing Arts Center may look like once the project is complete.

PAC expansion revamped

The Martin-Lipscomb Performing Arts Center has been busy this year, despite having to shelve nearly all of its 2020 performance schedule due to the COVID-19 coronavirus.  The PAC Board of Directors, along with the PAC Building Committee, announced…
Dan Brown

Thursday, October 29, 2020

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The WCU Honors College has been named for Jack and Judy Brinson, of Highlands.

Brinsons add to legacy of learning

News Staff
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Calling Western Carolina University a “beacon of light and hope for the region and the state of North Carolina,” Jack Brinson thanked university officials and administrators for adding the name Bri

Monarch butterflies are currently migrating through Western North Carolina.

Monarch migration underway at HBS

Dan Brown
Thursday, October 29, 2020

The staff at the Highlands Biological Station has made it their mission to help save the monarch butterfly by providing pollinator gardens and tagging programs during the butterflies’ annual migrat

The Highlands Motoring Festival and The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts are teaming up for “Freewheeling – the allure of the automobile in contemporary art,” an exhibition that will run from May 11 to Aug. 21, 2021.

The art of the automobile

Ryan Hanchett
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Maybe it’s Andy Warhol’s famous “Cars” depicting the evolution of Mercedes Benz as an innovative automobile manufacturer. 

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