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Highlands: A Destination Play-cation
If you’re a Highlands Chamber of Commerce member, you’re part of a community of businesses that work together for the benefit of all. The Chamber has revamped, revitalized, and reinvented itself to energize not only its ranks but the community of Highlands and its residents as well. Even if you’re not a Chamber member, you will benefit from the initiatives …
Dahlia Festival Success in Highlands NC
At the end of a week where the Plateau experienced damaging winds and power outages, the Highlands Historical Society’s Dahlia Festival provided area floral enthusiasts with a much-enjoyed relief from the weather. Despite many area gardens being drummed with heavy rains, dahlias of all sizes filled the Highlands Recreation Center. More than 250 people toured the exhibit hall. From huge …
Cullasaja Women’s Outreach Invests $200,000
Once upon a time, high up on a plateau, a collective of ladies felt sure their hearts had more to give. They sensed that if somehow they could combine their hopes and resources, they could make a positive difference. These goodhearted women dreamed of furthering a community that brought everyone who happened upon it, a sense of connection, closeness and …
Highlands Rotary Club: Shop with a Cop
For the past 16 years Law Enforcement Officers throughout Macon County have worked diligently to bring the true spirit of Christmas to area youngsters. In 2016 more than 350 children accompanied by officers from the Town of Highlands, Franklin and other Macon County entities, plus the U.S. Forestry Services, Marines and Army Reserves and N.C. State Troopers have shopped for …
Written in Her Trees
Most of the leaves have fallen from the trees and leaf-lookers have made their way back home. Though the pace is slowing and Mother Nature’s most spectacular show is over for the season, something else is happening that most of us probably never give thought to. The very trees that bear such robust color in autumn are preparing to go …
Lucky Laverne of the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society
Things looked pretty bleak for Laverne. Despite the best efforts and care from the staff at the Jackson County Shelter in Sylva, she waited for four long months in a kennel with no interested adopters and no rescue groups willing to take her in. The odds were definitely stacked against an eight-year-old black Plott Hound mix who was suffering from …
Forever Farm
This is certainly the case at the Forever Farm. We have an amazing paid staff who take care of the day-to-day needs of our pets: cleaning, feeding, dispensing medications and many other crucial tasks. However, we utilize our volunteer base to provide another key component in that care. That all-important component is socialization. Walking, brushing, petting, any positive interaction with …
Planting Seeds of Interest
Mentoring aids in the gentle planting of seeds of interest that help to develop a desire to try new things. With some assistance, Littles become more willing and confident in their abilities to try something new. According to the BBBSWNC website, “when children and teens have the influence of a caring adult, they are more likely to avoid risky behaviors, …
Ingram’s Lifetime of Service
Franklin Ingram, a volunteer at the Friendship Center, the Food Pantry, the Literacy Council and Big Brothers-Big Sisters, spent his professional career in service to others. Now that he has retired to Highlands, he continues this work through his volunteer efforts. Ingram, who graduated from Duke Divinity School, served as a youth minister for EIGHT years before turning his focus …
Once Upun a Time
I bought a card for a friend who’s going through a rough patch. On the front was a picture of a beet. The caption read, “I’m rootin’ for ya!” Inside it said: “You can’t be beet.” Yes, it was corny, but my friend’s a gluten for punishment. That’s why I’m giving her tuber the price of one: a card …
A Novel Approach to Writing
What started as a personal challenge has turned into a grand adventure for local author, Jeannie Chambers. Her first published novel, “Tunnel of Time,” is scheduled to be released December 1. Jeannie said she has always wanted to write and completed a course through the Institute of Children’s Literature in 1986 when her children were young. In 2011, she completed …
Hightail It to the Hudson Library
Ahh…there’s nothing more relaxing than kicking back next to a fire with a good book and a hot cup of tea or coffee on a dreary November day. Luckily, Hudson Library in Highlands has all of these winter essentials, and more. The library experience really begins before you even enter the building. Situated at the end of Main Street, it’s …
