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Have a String Fling

The Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival will celebrate its 39th season of bringing world-class Chamber Music performed by internationally-known performers in creative programs to Cashiers in style, moving into its new Cashiers home at the stunningly beautiful Village Green Commons.  The sound, the look, and the ambience of the new space will enhance the concert-going experience and match the magic that …

When Art Goes Seismic

Highlands/Cashiers painter Leslie Jeffery is happiest when she’s brushing, pressing, dripping, smearing, swirling, dotting, texturizing, or making any of her signature marks on a super-size canvas.   Here’s how she describes her work: “My paintings feature texture, light or heavy; marks of all kinds; deep colors; patterned backgrounds; drips and various mediums. They convey energy, lyrical or frenetic. They convey …

A Paw-ty with a Purpose

After procedures and surgeries and thousands of dollars in veterinary bills, today Churchill is heartworm-negative and cancer-free. His lifesaving recovery was made possible by patrons at our annual Pawsitively Purrfect Party, the single largest fundraiser of the year for the CHHS shelter pets. Pawsitively Purrfect Party makes it possible for the nearly 500 animals we rescue each year to never …


Celebrating Suffrage

Chances are you’ve heard the buzz about the Centennial Celebrations of the ratification of the 19th Amendment going on all around the country.   Culminating a 72 year struggle, this amendment finally secured for women the right to vote in 1920. But did you know Cashiers is also celebrating the event in a big way? Community events are being held throughout …

Dream It. Then Drive It.

The annual “One Lap of The Mountains” driving tour has become the festival’s most popular event. It has been expanded for 2020 with a second day of driving tours. It will be held on both Thursday June 11, and Friday, June 12.  This exhilarating driving adventure is a technical rally as opposed to a timed rally, designed to give drivers …

Universal Class

** The Hudson Library is closed through April 15.  We’ll let you know if this changes.   Spring has sprung. Time to think about doing, seeing – and learning something new. Just the place to acquire new skills and knowledge is the Hudson Library.  A brand new addition is Universal Class.  “Love learning but want to acquire new skills at your …


Gateway to Knowledge

Albert-Carlton-Cashiers Community Library is closed through April 15.  We’ll let you know if this changes. However, keep in mind that the library offers a completed collection of e-books, e-periodicals and online film streaming services. Instead of purchasing audio books, for example, library users can download the OverDrive app on a smartphone, computer, or tablet, “add a title” – or search …

Highlands Weekend Music Magic

If you ask a native Highlander of a certain age what he or she used to do for entertainment in this seemingly sleepy town, chances are they’ll look to a faraway horizon for the briefest of pauses, get a wry smile on their face, and softly mention Helen’s Barn. That structure, it really was a barn, was a roadhouse for …


All Events, One Ticket Place

Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands Playhouse, and the Highlands-Cashiers Players have pooled their resources to make buying tickets for all three entities much easier.    The new ticketing system provides an easy to use, web-based method for Portal members, and casual users as well, to purchase tickets.  You can be a casual user or a Portal Member. A casual user …

PAC Live Via Satellite

From October to May, most Saturday afternoons the Highlands Performing Arts Center will be presenting the Live via Satellite Series; featuring the MET Opera and the National Theatre of London, and on a weekday evening you can be entertained and educated with the Great Art on Screen series (a collaboration between The Bascom and PAC.) At 1:00 P.M. Saturday, March …

Kara Addy Joins McKee Team

McKee Properties, experts in luxury real estate in the Cashiers area, has added a full-time marketing director to its team. A proven expert and accredited professional with more than 25 years of experience, Kara Addy is clearly the right woman for this demanding role. Addy’s career has included leadership roles with institutions of higher education as well as nonprofit organizations …