April 2019

Just in time for Mother’s Day
Studio 106’s photographers, Susan Renfro and Colleen Kerrigan will be teaching all age and skill levels how to snap their own prize-winning close-ups in a series of creative camera classes. […]

Bark, Beer & Barbeque
The eighth annual signature fundraising event in Highlands for the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society officially starts the social season on the Plateau! The evening features a fantastic mountain-themed dinner and auction […]

Stroud Appointed Advisor to Humane Society US
Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society Executive Director David Stroud has been named to the North Carolina State Council for the Humane Society of the United States. In his new role on the […]

Leadership Cashiers Program
The inaugural Leadership Cashiers class recently launched its seven-month program with an opening retreat at Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club. The Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce’s new community engagement initiative […]

A Tale Destined to Be Told
I love reading in all genres, but historical fiction is my guilty pleasure. I’m always fascinated with other time periods, and I live vicariously through the characters of my favorite books. […]

True Grits
While on my annual winter sojourn to Edisto Island, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, I bought a fancy cloth bag of Charleston’s Own Stone Ground Whole Grain White […]

Buzzing ‘Round the Meadow
Wildflowers are even more beautiful in the mountains, don’t you think? The mountain air, high elevation, and unique granitic soils create an amazing and colorful expanse of flowering plants. Not […]

Carpe Diem Farms
Carpe Diem Farms has had its doors open for business at the end of Western Rhodes Drive in Highlands following its grand opening in October 1997. The foundation, established in […]

A Century of American Legion
On March 16, the American Legion turned 100, and local Post 370 celebrated the centennial milestone. While the local post was chartered in 1946, the organization as a whole traces […]