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Faith in Their Mission
The last time we visited Mike Carrier and Jeremy Dooley, they were launching a Facebook and YouTube remote broadcast called “Mike & Dooley in the Morning.” The show was off-the-cuff … and off-da-chain-funny. It evolved from their daily ritual: meet, drink coffee, and poke fun at gloomy headlines. Every morning’s summary: “Where’s the good news?” So they found their own …
Waterfall Ribbons
The late Highlands artist Julia Daugette once told me that she was never at a loss for inspiration when considering her next painting. “What kind of artist could ever come up empty? This entire corner of Western North Carolina is one big canvas,” she said. Julia tossed out this bit of wisdom 30 years ago, and last October the artists …
Wonderful Time to Write
Winter on the Plateau! There’s no place more beautiful, as long as there’s no ice on the roads. And, there’s no better time to scribble or type words while the forest sleeps in advance of what promises to be a most interesting, if not exciting 2020. The Highlands Writers Group meets weekly, all year long, sharing stories, poetry, essays, memoirs …
Beneficial to all Concerned
Members of the Rotary Club of Highlands have already made their New Year’s resolutions. In fact, they made those commitments when they joined the ranks of this venerable Highlands institution. Upon their admittance to the club, they pledged to support the mission of Rotary to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its …
A Park for the People
The Village Green is a park for the people. In 1992, the founders saved two acres at the crossroads of Highways 64 and 107 in Cashiers from commercial development. The Village Green was established with the mission to preserve and enhance the land for civic, spiritual, academic, recreational and cultural activities. More than 25 years later, The Village Green encompasses …
Carpe Diem Farms
My reflections are my story with horses. Many have asked over the years why I do what I do. Someone yesterday said, “This is a 24/7 job, you never close.” He got it on his first visit. Horses are not pasture ornaments, they require a lot in our environment to stay healthy and happy. Winter requires more vigilance: attention to …
Dog Walking at CHHS
One of the most common New Year’s resolutions goes something like this: “Starting now, this is the year I’m going to lose weight and get into shape!” To help you achieve that goal, there is a multi-billion-dollar industry out there anxious to separate you and your pocketbook, from gym memberships and equipment purchases, to shakes, supplements and pills. At the …
3,400 Acres of Conservation
Piece by piece, our mountain vistas, waterways, forests and trails are being conserved by Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust. Over the last 110 years, HCLT has protected over 3,400 acres in over 100 places. In 2019, we completed three conservation easements (landowner retains ownership) and two land donations, each has high conservation value, such as rare species, diverse habitat or landscape …
Summit Charter Receives Grant
Summit Charter School, a tuition-free K-10 public charter school on the Cashiers-Highlands Plateau, today announces it has received a grant from the Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation to fund a full-time school nurse for one year. Zandra Wingfield has fulfilled the full-time position and started on October 16. This is the first time the school has had the funding capacity to …
Looking Ahead
I’m here at the one-year anniversary of my position as Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC Program Coordinator of Cashiers and of Highlands, and what better way to celebrate than with with the amazing families and supporters within the BBBS community? I took on this role in February of last year, thinking I had an idea of what to …
Let’s Wait and See
Every decade has its theme-word or phrase: 1960s: Bummer 1970s: Can you dig it? 1980s; Awesome 1990s: As if 2000s: Word 2010s (the Cell Phone Gen): Swag, Emoji, APP, Hashtag, Selfie . . . just pick one. 2020s: Let’s Wait and See (already established this decade and guaranteed to spill over into the next) “Let’s wait and see” is code …
The Pursuit of Understanding
It is difficult to pick a beginning point for this story because I could easily trace my interest in writing, and especially writing on theological subjects, to being a very early reader who was also immersed in Bible stories and what I saw as many contradictions. This awareness of the contradictions in the stories as well as the contradictions …
