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The Highlands Motoring Festival drew record crowds during its four-day run in June. The festival continues to grow and has become one of Highlands’ premiere events of the summer.

Looking back at 2023

News Staff

Thursday, January 4, 2024

January

Revamped SnowFest draws big crowd

Mountain Theatre Company will open the 2024 performance season with Grease. The production will host an opening night on May 31.

MTC unveils 2024 season slate

News Staff

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Mountain Theatre Company has announced its 2024 Mainstage Season.

Representatives from Highlands Cashiers Hospital made donations of $17,500 to the food pantries in Highlands and Cashiers on Thursday.

HCH donates to local food banks

News Staff

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Thanks to a competition, Highlands-Cashiers Hospital received $35,000 to donate to local charities.

North Carolina Sen. Kevin Corbin (R-Macon) and Rep. Karl Gillespie (R-Macon) delivered a pair of checks for $5 million each to the Town of Highlands last week. The state funds will cover a new clarifier tank at the water treatment plant, and the dredging of Mirror Lake.

State steps up to fund projects

Ryan Hanchett

Thursday, December 28, 2023

North Carolina Sen. Kevin Corbin and Rep. Karl Gillespie took time out of their Christmas legislative break to stop in Highlands on Wednesday.

The Highlands Food and Wine Festival drew big crowds to town during a four-day run in November. The event has produced more than $176,000 in charitable donations since 2016.

Food and Wine festival makes giving impact

Ryan Hanchett

Thursday, December 21, 2023

The Highlands Food and Wine Festival will pass a major milestone in its charitable giving following a successful four-day run in 2023.

Recently elected Highlands town board members Brian Stiehler, John ‘Buz’ Dotson, and Jeff Weller were sworn in by Macon County Clerk of Court Shawna Lamb during the board’s monthly meeting on Thursday.

Changing of the guard

Ryan Hanchett

Thursday, December 21, 2023

The Highlands Board of Commissioners underwent a slight changing of the guard on Thursday night as newly-elected Jeff Weller took his spot on the dais in place of departing commissioner Marc Hehn.<

The staff at CHHS are stuffing stockings for shelter pets this holiday season.

CHHS stuffs stockings for pets

News Staff

Thursday, December 14, 2023

The Cashiers Highlands Humane Society is hosting its seventh annual “Stuff the Stockings” event to benefit the more than 110 animals currently in the facility’s care.

Mountain Theatre Company’s “Home for the Holidays” is on stage now through Dec. 24 at the Highlands Performing Arts Center.

Home for the Holidays in Highlands

News Staff

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Wherever you call home, Highlands has a winter remedy full of family fun.

Members of the Mountain Garden Club have been performing a dance routine to kick of the Highlands Christmas Parade each year since 1998.

25 years of dancing in the street

News Staff

Thursday, December 14, 2023

This month’s Olde Christmas Parade marked a special silver anniversary for the dancing ladies of the Mountain Garden Club.

NC Sen. Kevin Corbin filed for re-election surrounded by family and friends on Monday.

Election filing period opens for candidates

News Staff

Thursday, December 7, 2023

From county Soil and Water Conservation to county commissioners, state legislators and the presidency, the 2024 Election cycle officially begins with the candidate filing period Dec. 4-15.