All five Macon County Board of Education members decried a plan to make their elections partisan during its monthly meeting on Monday, Nov. 27, at East Franklin Elementary.
Highlands’ Olde Mountain Christmas Parade took to Main Street on Saturday, and officially ushered in the holiday season with dozens of floats, marching bands, bagpipers and of course, the dancers f
Standing as a beacon of the future, a bright blue door faces northwest and looks to the gray sunset, an excavator and a ladder fire truck bearing the American flag behind it.
Mary Adair Trumbly, the Executive Director of the Performing Arts Center for the past 13 years, has announced plans to retire at the end of 2024.
A fast start was stymied by a slow second quarter as Highlands dropped a 43-26 decision to Andrews in girls’ basketball on Tuesday night.
Two election related resolutions resulted in a heated back and forth between commissioners during the five-plus hour Macon County Board of Commissioners meeting on Nov. 14.
The Macon County Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, Nov.
The season of giving is underway and both of the Rotary Clubs that call Highlands home got into the act on Friday by partnering with the Highlands Emergency Council.
On the opening night of Highlands’ biggest event of the year, the Macon County Economic Development Commission got a firsthand look at tourism in town.
Highlands has stepped up its efforts to conserve water in the face of severe drought conditions.