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Signal Ridge Marina
October is by far my favorite month on the Plateau. The air is cool and crisp, and the mountains are carpeted in the most spectacular array of color. I love watching the season fade from the luscious green of summer to the golden red of autumn. Even better than seeing the colors from the scenic highways and secluded hiking trails …
Lodging at the Laurelwood Inn
If you want a rustic mountain experience with all the modern conveniences look no further than the Laurelwood Inn, located near the Cashiers Crossroads. In 1995 Bob and Lise Dews purchased this beautiful lodge nestled in four acres of a wooded wonderland. Everywhere you look…the landscape, the porch, the mountains, the ponds, the gazebo… there’s an invitation to explore and …
Work Somewhere Awesome
By promoting businesses and leading economic development initiatives throughout the year, the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce works to ensure commercial prosperity and high quality of life in our mountain communities. The Chamber is committed to “moving the needle” toward progress on workforce development — recruitment, housing, training, and retention – which is key to successful economic development. “Workforce development …
Inspired Spaces
There’s something uniquely satisfying about a family business that embodies the American Dream and spans decades, keeping up with the ever-changing business environment, and evolving with the times. One of Highlands’ newest businesses, ACP Home Interiors, personifies this successful family business venture that keeps up with their clients’ changing tastes and needs. Opened as Antiques and Country Pine in 1983 …
Highlands Cashiers Land Trust
You are enjoying autumn in the best place around, in our humble opinion. The Highlands-Cashiers Plateau has some of the most spectacular natural amenities and many of them are preserved by Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust! HCLT helps protect some of the area’s most iconic views. The jaw-dropping “Shadow of the Bear” at Rhodes Big View is a must see for many. …
From Start to Final Stretch
In 2012, the Board of Hospice House Foundation of WNC decided to embark on the Hospice House Campaign to raise $4.9 million for a hospice inpatient facility to serve hospice patients in our region who need inpatient care, respite care, and end-of-life-care. A feasibility study was done to substantiate the great need for a Hospice House in our rural mountain …
Highlands Rotary
Rotarian Diane McPhail was filled with pride when she pulled the trigger to start the 2018 Twilight 5K Race sponsored by the Rotary Club of Highlands. A moment earlier she’d been surrounded by nine young runners from the Athens Academy Cross Country Team, including her twin grandsons, Logan and Elliot. “I remember the day I gave two ‘Happy Dollars’ at …
Share Some Peggy Power
One of the hidden gems of Highlands is The Peggy Crosby Center, home to 13 non-profit organizations and service-oriented businesses. To help these agencies, The PCC keeps the tenants’ rents low. Rents only cover the operational expenses of the Center. Thus, the PCC must rely on donations to underwrite the capital improvements needed to maintain the building. Each fall the …
Forever Family Reunion
Have you given a Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society shelter pet a forever home? Then you are invited to our Fourth Annual CHHS Forever Family Reunion! Bring your CHHS alumni pet and come mingle with fellow CHHS Adopting Angels at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park on Pine Street in Highlands on Saturday, October 13, from 1:00-3:00 P.M. for an afternoon of family fun. Admission …
Making a Splash
Dolphins and Whales and Sharks, Oh My! As a kickoff to school starting this fall, both BBBS of Cashiers and of Highlands took trips to aquariums. BBBS of Cashiers explored the Tennessee Aquarium, whereas BBBS of Highlands opted for the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Both of these trips proved to be a really fun, educational, and engaging group outing for …
Helping Hands
Volunteers are a key part of most any nonprofit organization, but are especially important to animal welfare groups. The volunteers at the Friends For Life Forever Farm are no exception. The Forever Farm has a hardworking, dedicated staff who do a tremendous job taking care of our animal residents’ basic care. These duties include cleaning, feeding, and dispensing medications. And …
Getting Stable With Horses
Over the last 26 years I’ve had a lot of opportunities to work with a wide variety of children and adults. There have been nearly 4,000 in camps, workshops, private lessons, after school programs, internships, and more. In all of those experiences there have only been four – two adults, two children – whose fear of horses was paralyzing and …
