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Know Your Bio, Highlands Biological Station
The Highlands Biological Station begins to buzz with workshops, family activities, and academic courses in May as our summer season begins. From one-day workshops curated for the Highlands resident or visitor to an evening search for salamanders with the whole family, the station is a great place for you to visit this month. Join us on May 25 for …
Music, Food and Fun at Zoller Hardware
The excitement surrounding the arrival of Memorial Day weekend rivals that of Thanksgiving, or even Christmas. For residents of Cashiers and Highlands, it signals the end of the frigid winter and wet spring, and heralds the beginning of another glorious summer in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Businesses all across the area prepare to celebrate the holiday and welcome our seasonal …
Pots on The Green | Cashiers NC
Do you know someone that always finds the coolest stuff? Like a beautiful porcelain mug, or that incredible vase in their foyer? Some people seem to have a knack for finding unique and interesting things for their home, and I can never figure out where they find them. Local potter Justin Allman of Firemoss Pottery has set out to change …
One for the Road, Highlands Motoring Festival
The Highlands Motoring Festival weekend, June 7-10, is always one of the Southeast’s premier auto shows, but its Special Interest category, which changes every year, offers several cars that you’ll have little chance to see anywhere else. This year’s Special Interest class, Vintage Race Cars, has several entries that organizers are particularly excited about. NASCAR fans, start your engines and don’t …
Garden Club Plant Sale
It’s common knowledge that you shouldn’t start planting at this elevation until after Mother’s Day, and the Mountain Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale heralds the unofficial beginning of a lush growing season. On Saturday May 26, from 9:00 A.M. until noon at the Highlands Ball Field, members and friends of the club will have a wide variety of native plants …
It’s the Grooviest : Cashiers NC
Tune in to the sounds of summer during Cashiers popular concert series, Groovin’ On the Green. This season welcomes a lineup of favorite performers and exciting new talent to the stage. Blankets and lawn chairs cover the green with happy people. Or, you can kick off your shoes and dance in the grass. That’s what “Groovin’” is all about. Groovin’ …
WCU Art Opening at Carolina Gallery
From the heart of the western mountains to the historic coastal plain, the Carolina experience is as rich and varied as the cultures and people that call North Carolina home. Students and faculty of Western Carolina University School of Art and Design mine that magic in their exhibition of exquisite contemporary pieces. In partnership with The Carolina Gallery of Highlands, …
Get Your Motor Runnin’
The Highlands Motoring Festival weekend, June 7-10, promises to be bigger and better than ever. Organizers expect 125 entrants, with 15-20 entries representing the special interest class of the year, Vintage Race Cars. The first entry accepted into this class is a 1972 BMW CSL Group 2 factory racer, which won its class at Lemans in 1973. In addition …
Get Brain-Fit at Highlands Center for Life Enrichment
The gloom caused by Mother Nature during the winter months has magically ended with the arrival of April. If you’ve spent the winter curled up on the couch with your favorite comfort food and binge-watching Netflix, it’s time for a little mental stimulation. Spring is the season of awakening and it’s time to start thinking about getting “brain fit.” The …
The Right Fight, Highlands’ Youth Theater Program
Fighting in school is normally frowned upon, but this month local schools are actually encouraging it. That’s the message from Megan E. Greenlee-Potts, the artistic director of the Martin-Lipscomb Performing Art Center’s Youth Theater Program, now in its 11th year. The students in Greenlee-Potts’ program have spent the year learning the intricacies of hand-to-hand stage fighting. The acting ensemble will …
Hey, Brother by Ashley Stewart
The Plateau is blessed with an abundance of talent and on March 27 the world was introduced to a newly-birthed book series by Cashiers author Ashley Stewart, who writes as A.J. Stewart. Last month she grabbed boxes of her hot-off-the-press inaugural novel, “Hey, Brother,” and headed out on the first stop of her book tour held at North Carolina ComiCon …
Kasey’s Idea of Heaven
Kasey Klodosky has been a full-time resident of Highlands for about nine years. She and her parents moved from Atlanta after having been part-time residents for years. Sounds familiar, right? Luckily, despite its small size, Highlands offers enough to keep Kasey from missing the Atlanta metropolis too much. Kasey is a movie and theater buff, so between the Highlands …
