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Breakfast with Santa
Setting the tone for little ones’ Christmas Season is the Highlands United Methodist Church’s Breakfast with Santa, set for 8:30 A.M. Saturday, December 8, in the church’s Faith and Fellowship Center. Please RSVP by Wednesday, December 5, at (828) 526-3376. It’s so much fun to see the children all decked out in their festive holiday attire. After a hearty breakfast, …
Shop with a Cop
Macon County Sheriff’s Office’s Shop with a Cop Program is a chance to give back to the community and its most precious citizens. Embarking on its 25th year, it was started when Sheriff Holland was a juvenile officer and his wife Marci was a social worker for the Department ofSocial Services. After working a severe case of physical abuse involving …
I Rink I Can
Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park, in the center of downtown Highlands, has become a gathering place for the community. During the season, it offers live music, a farmers’ market, art and craft shows, and much more. In the colder months you’ll find lots to do there, too. Santa will be visiting and the park glows with brilliantly colored lights. During the day …
All HANDS For Christmas
Christmas in Highlands is like no other. Even if there’s no snow on the ground, the sense of community blankets the town with a glittering layer of generosity. So many charitable people donate to the many nonprofits to help those less fortunate, especially at this time of the year. HANDS. Highlands Area Non Profit Donation Sharing, is one of many …
Remember, Honor, Teach
Veterans’ Day has come and gone, but their service to our country will again be honored on December 15, when Highlands joins the nationwide Wreaths AcrossAmerica celebration. Wreaths Across America coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies at more than 1,400 locations across the United States, at sea and abroad. While coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies each December on National Wreaths Across America Day, their mission …
Cashiers Library
During this busy holiday season, with its meaningful community celebrations and deeply personal family observations, it’s easy to forget that so many of these events are new and perhaps not well-understood for children. That’s why little ones and their loved ones are invited to Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library for Storytime, Wednesdays at 10:00 A.M. Youth Services Director James Stewart-Payne will …
Have a Book Snuggle
Cold, gray December days are the perfect time to visit Hudson Library and check out a book or DVD to snuggle up with at homeAnd if you’re a kid, Thursday afternoons at 3:30 P.M. is the perfect time to visit the library, regardless of the weather, for Kids Zone! Kids Zone is a time set aside for diverse programs designed …
Over the River Thru the Woodes
On Saturday, December 8, join the visitors and residents of Cashiers as they line the streets through the Crossroads for the 44th Annual Cashiers Christmas Parade. From Cornucopia Restaurant to the Cashiers Community Center, a cavalcade of floats and firetrucks, dogs and horses will celebrate the season. This year, the theme is “Over the River and Through the Woodes.” Local …
Art & Gratitude
Smitten’s Kat Evans, Annelize Giliomee, and Bonnie Earman enjoyed another banner year, thanks to you, their supporters, clients, artists, and friends. Smitten would like to express its gratitude this Thanksgiving season by hosting a party for its award-winning painters, sculptors, crafts-persons, and patrons of 2018. Smitten delights in bragging about its stable of phenomenal talents, hailing from the Plateau all …
Cashiers Area Legacy Fund
The Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce recently created the Cashiers Area Legacy Fund as a North Carolina non-profit corporation whose purposes are exclusively educational and charitable. “This new charity is designed to specifically support responsible growth and preservation of the quality of life we enjoy on the Plateau,” Board of Trustees President Mary Alice Grant explained. “Grant support may be …
Highlands is Happening
“We’re turning Off-Season back On!” That’s the mandate for the Highlands Chamber of Commerce in 2019. “There’s so much to do in the mountains in the fall, winter, spring and summer,” says Dale Gordon, the chamber’s project and marketing guru. “We want to spread the word: Highlands is happening all year long!” Finishing out this year and moving into next …
Gathering with Grateful Hearts
The days are short, the colored leaves have fallen, the mountains have lost their vibrant color, and Thanksgiving is fast approaching. The ladies of the Scaly Mountain Women’s Club think about the things that we are thankful for. We are thankful to live in this lovely area and we are thankful for family and friends. As a club we are …
