A pair of Highlands students work on a hallway mural as part of art class.
The Highlands Motoring Festival drew record crowds during its four-day run in June. The festival continues to grow and has become one of Highlands’ premiere events of the summer.
Mountain Theatre Company will open the 2024 performance season with Grease. The production will host an opening night on May 31.
Representatives from Highlands Cashiers Hospital made donations of $17,500 to the food pantries in Highlands and Cashiers on Thursday.
North Carolina Sen. Kevin Corbin (R-Macon) and Rep. Karl Gillespie (R-Macon) delivered a pair of checks for $5 million each to the Town of Highlands last week. The state funds will cover a new clarifier tank at the water treatment plant, and the dredging of Mirror Lake.
The Highlands Food and Wine Festival drew big crowds to town during a four-day run in November. The event has produced more than $176,000 in charitable donations since 2016.
Recently elected Highlands town board members Brian Stiehler, John ‘Buz’ Dotson, and Jeff Weller were sworn in by Macon County Clerk of Court Shawna Lamb during the board’s monthly meeting on Thursday.
The staff at CHHS are stuffing stockings for shelter pets this holiday season.
Mountain Theatre Company’s “Home for the Holidays” is on stage now through Dec. 24 at the Highlands Performing Arts Center.
Members of the Mountain Garden Club have been performing a dance routine to kick of the Highlands Christmas Parade each year since 1998.