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A Run for the Money
Welcome to the 8th Annual Rotary Club of Highlands 5k and 10k Twilight Run, beginning at 9:00 A.M. Saturday, November 28. At 4118 feet and dubbed as “Patty Cake,” the 5k course, edged by Harris Lake, running through gently rolling hills, and shaded by Appalachian hardwoods is the flattest of its distance in Highlands. Stroller and walker friendly, the 5k …
Escape to Greystone
The Covid-19 crisis has left the entire hospitality industry shaken, but it’s also led to the implementation of new practices that’ll ensure the safety of guests and staff. The Greystone Inn at Lake Toxaway began studying these protocols and training staff in the early spring, so that with the arrival of summer, all of the steps were in place for …
Orchard Sessions: Olivia Daponte
When The Farm at Old Edwards returns with their popular Orchard Sessions on Thursday, August 27, the Orchard will once again be transformed into a vibrating music hall without walls. An idyllic place for a music gathering, the outdoor setting promises to provide an intimacy and exhilaration to a live performance by young artist Olivia Daponte that could not …
Reconnect with Nature
As North Carolina continues to slowly open, Highlands is starting to bustle with energy with the arrival of the summer season. Year-round residents and summer visitors are trying to find ways to make this summer fun and as profitable as possible. Many are feeling safest using this time to explore natural beauty, which Highlands is never lacking in. The wonderful …
Sister Suffragette
A main scene in the 1964 film Mary Poppins focuses on the women’s right to vote when the mother of the story’s two children marches into the home singing the song about “Sister Suffragette.” This year, 2020 – although it will be remembered for much that is negative – is also the commemorative year of the 19th Amendment, which granted American …
Locally Grown on the Green
With sensible precautions in place, Locally Grown on the Green in Cashiers, a farm stand for local growers at the Cashiers Village Green Commons, resumes its status as a vital player on the community’s dynamic summer social calendar. The market is “producer only,” meaning that the vendor must be the grower or producer of all the products they sell. Vendors …
Climate Change Social Justice
In 2018 and 2019 The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center of Highlands hosted a weeklong retreat that explored the topics of Climate Change, Social Justice and the intertwining of these two issues. Today, as our social fabric has been torn apart by the pandemic and civil unrest in unprecedented ways, this year’s event, happening September 16-21, seems most pertinent than …
An Appalachian Mountain Bog
Join Friends of Panthertown on Thursday, August 13, at 7:30 P.M. for an exciting webinar presentation given by Emmy Award-winning PBS television host and naturalist Dr. Patrick McMillan, host of Expeditions with Patrick McMillan. Dr. McMillan is the Hilliard Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Clemson University, and is the director of the South Carolina Botanical Garden. His popular PBS television …
Coping and an Old Rope Swing
There are a lot of stories as to what the current coronavirus crisis is revealing about family life, society, the educational system, and our economy. Here, Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library’s Jessica Martin reflects on what sheltering-in-place revealed to her, her husband and three boys. Taken together, the details of Jessica’s day-to-day life and its meaning in the larger context …
Reinventing Her Restaurant
March 17, 2020. The celebratory sounds of a traditional St Patrick’s Day celebration were silenced today as North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper halted dine-in service across Highlands. In its place, you could barely hear the air sucked out of the lungs of local restaurateurs – the hard-working folks who had spent decades serving the community. Meritage Bistro owner Andrea Schmitt …
Celebrate Your Voice
Like the rest of the world, my life seemed to completely change in the matter of days. I was a second semester junior at college. Before I was sent home from school in March I was living in an apartment on campus, I was working hard, getting good grades, and enjoying living with my significant other for the first time …
