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Window Dressings
During the holiday season, the town of Highlands transforms into a Dickensesque Christmas wonderland. Our streets are lined with wreath-adorned street lights, trees are aglow, and store windows gleam with holiday vision. To help with this festive town image, the Highlands Chamber of Commerce sponsors an annual Holiday Window Decorating Contest. Store owners have the first three weeks of November …
The Chamber’s Permanent Home
The Marchant-Parker-Davis-Patterson House became the permanent home of the Highlands Chamber of Commerce in 2013. Its provenance is impressive and is reflected in its lengthy name. The home’s history spans three centuries beginning with its construction in 1879 by Robert Marchant. It was his Highlands Pine Ridge residence for five years. In 1884 Greenville, South Carolinian Thomas F. Parker, stepson …
Building a Land Legacy
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust originated in 1883 to become the first land trust in the Southeast, though it was not until 1909, when members collected money from the residents of Highlands to protect the summit of Satulah Mountain, that the then-Highlands Improvement Association would protect its first property. One of those initial contributing families, the Anderson-Sargent family, went on to …
CLE: Yearn to Learn
Did you know how the Center For Life Enrichment got its start? I sure didn’t and I’ve been working with them on and off over the course of the last five years. In a beauty shop in Highlands, in the summer of 1989, a chance meeting between two women, Nell Martin and Nelda Toothman, unknowingly put into motion the …
Happy in the Dog House
I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. After arriving at Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society in May, 2012, and enjoying a glorious and beautiful spring, summer and fall, the winter months set in and for this Florida native it just didn’t seem that cold. Why were so many people leaving this pristine paradise when all of a sudden the mountain vistas …
Fostering Kindness
Kindness is what we are all about. Helping those that cannot help themselves. We are a voice for our animal brothers and sisters who in their senior years, or in times of need, have no family to care f or them. The Forever Farm in Lake Toxaway is a lifelong sanctuary for senior and special needs animals that come to …
No Greater Love
No greater love have I ever lost than my magnificent Promise. From the day he was born he was the iconic image of Carpe Diem Farms. We announced his birth in The Highlander and he became the talk of the town! Photographers, parents with children, friends of the farm gathered to see our one and only foal born on the …
BBBS Looking Ahead
As the new Big Brothers Big Sisters Program Coordinator of Cashiers, I’m looking forward to this new year. We ended 2015 with a wonderful holiday group outing to the Asheville Community Theatre. It was a great way for me to meet and enjoy time with 20 “Bigs” and “Littles” as we rode the bus to Asheville to watch “The Best …
Banning Winter Blues
Most folks have heard the term “winter blues,” but sometimes these feelings are extreme, can impact someone’s daily life, and might be a sign of something more serious. Consider these problems that can pop up at this time of year – major depression; feeling depressed most of the day, nearly every day; having low energy; losing interest in activities you …
Something to Chew On
The Rotary Club of Highlands and the Highlands Mountaintop Club started a dental health program for the Highlands School in 2009. Approval was obtained from the Macon County Health Department and the North Carolina Department of Dental Regional Health. Over 80 percent of tooth decay is now found in approximately 25 percent of the children. Today, 50 percent of our …
New Faces Familiar Places
Walk into the Hudson Library in Highlands and you’re likely to see two new faces at the Circulation Desk – Jessica Kovacs and Emily Crowell. Both arrived in November, but Emily has been part of the Fontana Regional Library for years. She has worked part-time at both the Macon County Library in Franklin and the Albert Carlton Cashiers Community Library. …
Nan and Jerry Take Heart
Should you walk into Health Tracks at Highlands Cashiers Hospital, it’s likely you’ll see a familiar face. Nan Presley has been the wine concierge at Bryson’s Food Store for years. Now she volunteers at Health Tracks beside her husband Jerry, who really is The Wiz. This man behind the curtain has been a volunteer for 15 years and has some …
