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Highlands Motoring festival
As you start to grow up, you often strive to emulate people that you find are larger, or more nationally recognized; but, all too often, circumstances might prevent you from achieving that goal. At that point you look at what you have and what is unique, and capitalize on that. Such is the case of the Highlands Motoring Festival. Highlands …
Chamber Welcomes John Woods
When your surname is Woods, it seems only natural that you’d settle in the Nantahala. John Woods, naval engineer, chemist/physicist, marketing genius, and resort manager traveled the world, stem to stern. After he married and started a family, he heard the mountains call. It was time to settle. Nothing suited him better than the woods of Western North Carolina. His …
Realtor LIz Harris
From her early years in British Columbia, Canada, to her forever home in Cashiers, Liz Harris excels in making a place richer by her presence. Recently ranked #1 in sales for 2018 in the Highlands-Cashiers MLS, Liz continues to deliver outstanding results for her real estate clients. Liz, an outdoors girl, fell in love with the area when she …
Cashiers Valley Nosh Mob
Nosh Mob – noun, a large group of delightful foodies; verb, to crowd a specific Chamber Member Restaurant and enthusiastically appreciate a locally prepared meal. Throughout a beautiful winter evening in February, the Greystone Inn’s new Mansion Bar & Restaurant was filled to capacity with animated Cashiers Area Chamber members and friends dining as part of the organization’s “Nosh Mob” …
Studio 106 Opens
A fallen leaf, a weathered fence post, a sun-dappled path … even a proverbial bump-on-a-log has photo-potential on the Plateau. Why? Because it exists in Eden. Maybe that is why so many photographers gravitate to Highlands/Cashiers … and the reason the smart ones stay. Thanks to the enthusiasm and vision of four of those smart ones, Colleen Kerrigan, …
Critter Camp
The Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society is launching an all-new summer camp program called “Critter Camp.” The CHHS Critter Camp will be five days in length and is open to rising first-graders through rising sixth-graders. The week of camp will feature fun, immersive, and interactive experiences with animals at the no-kill shelter; humane education programs including canine body language and dog bite …
Healing Miracles
If you’re a regular reader of our articles, you’ve watched for news of the healing stories of Battersea Tracy and Sweet Pea since last October. The dedication of Carpe Diem Farms volunteers and staff; the expertise of Ric Redden, DVM surgeon/farrier of Versailles, Kentucky; Miguel Rodriquez, DVM/farrier of Lexington, Kentucky; Joao Neto, College Station, Texas, farrier; Dave Giza, Culpeper, …
Preserving Places We Love
April showers bring May flowers. For most of the country, this is pretty spot on. However, when you live in a temperate rainforest like we do it’s more like, “Annual rainfall of 80-82 inches supports an abundance of rare and endangered plant and animal species and a lush landscape with unparalleled beauty.” Okay, so that may never …
Summit Charter’s New Director
Summit Charter School, a tuition-free K-9 public charter school in Cashiers, has chosen Kurt Pusch to serve as its new director, effective July 1. Pusch will succeed Billy Leonard, who has served Summit as interim director since July 2018. “Kurt has spent the past 15 years with KIPP, the nation’s largest and highest regarded network of public charter schools,” says …
I’d be Elliot
When I was four, my mother brought home a beautiful Red Snapper and slammed it on the countertop with a thunk. It was exquisite … red and silver scales like tiny over-lapping coins, a magical beast with a tail worthy of a mermaid. As I puzzled how it was going to swim without any water, my mom, my Freddie Kruger …
An Entertainer’s Dream Home
Owned and built by Tommy Chambers, a prominent log home builder in the Highlands area, this two-story log home is the ultimate dream house. Originally built in 1979, it started as a simple square cabin. As his family grew through the intervening decades, so did the house. The last addition was added in 1998, resulting in a five-bedroom, five-bath home …
Someday You’ll Write
It can be difficult to define at what point contemporary fiction becomes historical fiction. Michelle Gable is a master of walking that line. Her first three novels, “A Paris Apartment,” “I’ll See You in Paris,” and “The Book of Summer” stand firmly in our modern day and reach into the past. Her latest release, “The Summer I Met Jack,” …
