Newspapers aren’t known for “cute” content.
Most of the year The Highlander staff works hard to put together stories that inform our readers about the community around them. It’s a labor of love that requires nights, weekends, and untold number of additional hours outside the office at events, government meetings, ballgames, accidents, and everything in between.
However, the week of Christmas there is an exception made for more “cuteness” in the newspaper. In this week’s edition you will find our annual “Letters to Santa” brought to you by the elementary students of Highlands School.
Luckily for the students, Santa Claus is a known reader of The Highlander.
Christmas week is one of the weeks we most look forward to in the newsroom, when reporter Kaylee Cook brings back the Santa letters, everyone knows it’s time for a good chuckle. From the unintentionally hilarious phonetic spelling, to the off-the-wall and sometimes ridiculous requests, we enjoy reading the children’s letters every bit as much as they enjoy writing them.
We encourage you to check out the letters in the Weekender section and see what is on the children’s minds this holiday season. Among the most popular Christmas requests were the IPhone 14 (because every 6-8 year old needs one of those), puppies, Minecraft items, LOL Dolls, gaming consoles and holiday treats like cakes and candies.
The wonder of the holiday season through the eyes of children takes us all back to those amazing Christmas gifts that marked our youth. Maybe it was a new red wagon, the freedom presented by a bright and shiny bicycle, or the advancement of technology via video game – No matter the actual present, everyone has a Christmas morning they remember.
We hope the children of Highlands have been good all year and Santa Claus brings them at least some of the items on their wish list.
Thank you to the students, teachers and staff of Highlands School for making the letters to Santa possible, and Merry Christmas from The Highlander staff!