Mayor on Duty - New budget year begins
Yesterday marked the start of a new budget year for the Town of Highlands. The town board approved a scaled back budget at their June meeting.
Yesterday marked the start of a new budget year for the Town of Highlands. The town board approved a scaled back budget at their June meeting.
It’s hard to feel much like celebrating this Fourth of July.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow, as does the list of events and activities cancelled due to it.
For years, the Philadelphia 76ers were a bad basketball team.
It was a good weekend for me, and I suspect for many Highlanders. At this beginning of summer we finally got a break from the cloudy days.
The Fourth of July is usually a wild weekend in Highlands.
It’s a time that residents, visitors and business owners look forward to all year.
Tonight is the June meeting of the Highlands Town Board of Commissions. Since we are in phase two of the Governor’s State of Emergency, the meeting will again be held by way of ZOOM.
I was perusing the June/July issue of Fly Fisherman when I came across this statement by Takaknotire, a Kayapo Tribal Elder and Warrior living on the Amazon River.
It seems as though every activity in our daily lives requires an extra level of safety nowadays.
A pair of fire trucks hoisted a giant American flag across NC 106 on Thursday morning as a procession of emergency vehicles with lights flashing passed underneath.
For three months we have been taking measures with the hope of stopping the COVID-19 virus from coming to the Highlands Plateau.