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Highlands School cheerleader Brianna Norris leads the squad in a cheer during halftime of the boys’ basketball game on homecoming Friday.

Highlands cheerleader lands invite to CheerHawaii USA

Highlands School cheerleader Brianna Norris has landed a pretty prestigious invitation, being selected to represent HHS at the CheerHawaii USA Invitational.

After being removed on Nov. 26, a cross tree-topper was returned to the town Christmas tree after Mayor Taylor agreed to a compromise.

Mayor’s compromise returns cross to tree

Highlands Mayor Patrick Taylor ceded to local backlash from those who took exception to his decision to remove a cross from atop the town’s new Christmas tree, and returned the cross to its place atop the tree, despite the town’s earlier decision

The Highlands School grades 3-5 proved their mettle against their elder classmates by capturing the 2018 Homecoming Spirit Stick highlighting homecoming Week festivities at Friday’s pep rally.

Highlanders celebrate homecoming with games, rally

Highlands falls to Franklin 63-38

A cement truck is weighed by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol at the Highlands Community Building on Nov. 29.

Town gets aggressive in battle against trucks traveling illegally

The Town of Highlands has partnered with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol’s Motor Carrier Enforcement Unit to battle oversized and overweight trucks from illegally traveling over area roads.

Alleged Bio-Station burglar arrested

A man wanted in connection with several burglaries across two counties in two states was apprehended by Macon County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Saturday.

N.C. Department of Transportation District Three Engineer Andy Russell provides Highlands town staff and commissioners with feedback on the town’s tree planter proposal during a Monday afternoon Land Use Committee meeting.

DOT on hand for Main Street tree discussion

The Town of Highlands Land Use Committee, along with local business leaders met with the North Carolina Department of Transportation Monday afternoon to discuss the town’s proposed tree planter plan and how it would affect parking on Main Street d

News

Highlands cheerleader lands invite to CheerHawaii USA

Highlands School cheerleader Brianna Norris has landed a pretty prestigious invitation, being selected to represent HHS at the CheerHawaii USA Invitational.

By Dan Brown

Mayor’s compromise returns cross to tree

Highlands Mayor Patrick Taylor ceded to local backlash from those who took exception to his decision to remove a cross from atop the town’s new Christmas tree, and returned the cross to its place a

By Dan Brown

Highlanders celebrate homecoming with games, rally

Highlands falls to Franklin 63-38

By Dan Brown

Opinion

Mayor on Duty

Last week was busy beyond just the Christmas Tree issue. Let me cover two other issues.

Farewell President Bush

Forty-first U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, who died Friday, is being remembered as a man of greatness but also of uncommon decency and kindness.

Our View

Many Highlander readers likely celebrated a bountiful Thanksgiving meal, breaking bread (and turkey and stuffing and green bean casserole and sweet potatoes and pie) with friends and family last we

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Sports

Soccer season ends with 3-2 loss in State playoffs

The Highlands boys’ soccer team’s season came to an abrupt end on Saturday with a 3-2 overtime loss to Mountain Island Charter out of Mt.

Highlands sweeps Blue Ridge 3-0 to advance to LSMC finals

A third-time match up with Hiwassee Dam looms as Highlands’ volleyball team swept inter-county rival Blue Ridge 3-0 in the first round of the Little Smoky Mountain Conference tournament Monday.

The 2018 Highlands soccer seniors are from left: Freddi Lopez, Jared Shearl, Mattson Gates, Hunter Collins, Jake Billingsley, Drew Chalker, Carson Talbert, Destin Gearhart and Caden Smolarsky.

Boys soccer wins 9-0 on senior night

A 5-1 season-finale loss to Hayesville Tuesday night threatened the Highlands soccer team’s chances of reaching the North Carolina High School Athletics Association Class 1A tournament.