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The Bird Barn
The Bird Barn, a Cashiers tradition for 20 years, is now in its new location at Unit 5, Village Walk. For owners Sandy and LeRoy Parr and their official shop dog, Kaysee, it feels like coming home. This is where it all began 20 years ago, so they and their customers feel right at home in their new space. Walking …
Creative Concepts
It’s a wonderful thing when you finally find a stylist that understands you and your hair. Why does it seem that as soon as you’ve found the perfect person they decide to relocate? So there you go trying salon after salon, experiencing the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s enough to make a person collect hats. This is …
Summer Reading for Kids
It’s time again for the summer reading program at the Hudson Library in Highlands. Summer reading is for kids and teens and the dates to enroll are June 7-11 (although you can sign up any time after that if you’re not in town that week)! This year’s theme is “Ready, Set, Read!” – encouraging physical activity along with reading as …
Celebrating The Peggy
The Peggy Crosby Center – affectionately known as “The Peggy” – is not just another pretty face in Highlands. She’s got history, heart, beauty, and a lot of soul! In 1990, Philip Crosby had a vision for the former hospital building (built in 1948) whereby it could serve the community. His desire to honor his wife’s legacy in the Highlands …
Lifelong Sanctuary
Friends for Life is a unique organization dedicated to helping senior and special needs companion animals. The Forever Farm is our lifelong sanctuary for animals who have lost their homes and families when they need them the most, in their golden years or when disability strikes. In the broadest sense, for those seniors that are in good health, the …
Gifts Unfolding
This year marks the 24th anniversary of Carpe Diem Farms. We aren’t marking it with special events, parties or fundraisers. Instead, we’re making several stops around the country visiting horses that are alive today in large part because of the horses of CDF. It is the horses of CDF who through their hoof and leg issues throughout the years – …
Poverty Simulation Event
It’s surprising to learn how few people in Highlands know about The Highlands Food Pantry and the work they do. Established many years ago, it’s currently located on Third Street across from Reeves Hardware The pantry serves those in our area who are hungry. The pantry is open from 3:30 until 5:30 P.M. every Monday and works in conjunction with …
Busy Summer for Kids
“Play Ball!” Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cashiers recently took a group of Little Brothers and Little Sisters to Asheville to watch an Asheville Tourists baseball game. For all of the children there, it was their first experience of a baseball game outside of Cashiers. They thoroughly enjoyed their day of eating Cracker Jack and getting autographs from players and …
Above All Have Fun
The Mission of any Rotary Club is “Service Above Self.” And the Rotary Club of Highlands certainly adheres to that with all the community, national, and international projects that they participate in and support. Last month the Highlands Cashiers Players, Leadership Highlands and the Dana Faber Cancer Research Fund received financial support from the club. In addition, the club sponsored …
Beauty Shop Beginnings
Here’s a little known fact. Do you know how the Center for Life Enrichment got its start? It all started in a beauty shop in Highlands. It was the summer of 1991, and a chance meeting between two women, Nell Martin and Nelda Toothman, both under hair dryers, unknowingly put into motion the founding of the Center for Life Enrichment. …
A Universal Constant
A day in Highlands is enough to make one thing clear: Change is everywhere. Visitors pass by on Main Street, meandering towards Old Edwards Inn or looking into the local shops. Familiar faces reappear as couples gone for the winter or simply a week return home. New birds call from just over a ridge or a rhododendron thicket. Even the mountains …
Volunteer Spotlight
If you’re not a car fanatic, you might not understand the siren song heard by so many. Steve Ham of Highlands has fallen victim. Actually, he fell victim at an early age and has succumbed quite happily. He remembers riding around with his dad as a five-year-old, identifying different makes and models. Steve is one of the many volunteers who …
