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Gateway to Knowledge
Albert-Carlton-Cashiers Community Library is closed through April 15. We’ll let you know if this changes. However, keep in mind that the library offers a completed collection of e-books, e-periodicals and online film streaming services. Instead of purchasing audio books, for example, library users can download the OverDrive app on a smartphone, computer, or tablet, “add a title” – or search …
Highlands Weekend Music Magic
If you ask a native Highlander of a certain age what he or she used to do for entertainment in this seemingly sleepy town, chances are they’ll look to a faraway horizon for the briefest of pauses, get a wry smile on their face, and softly mention Helen’s Barn. That structure, it really was a barn, was a roadhouse for …
All Events, One Ticket Place
Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands Playhouse, and the Highlands-Cashiers Players have pooled their resources to make buying tickets for all three entities much easier. The new ticketing system provides an easy to use, web-based method for Portal members, and casual users as well, to purchase tickets. You can be a casual user or a Portal Member. A casual user …
PAC Live Via Satellite
From October to May, most Saturday afternoons the Highlands Performing Arts Center will be presenting the Live via Satellite Series; featuring the MET Opera and the National Theatre of London, and on a weekday evening you can be entertained and educated with the Great Art on Screen series (a collaboration between The Bascom and PAC.) At 1:00 P.M. Saturday, March …
Kara Addy Joins McKee Team
McKee Properties, experts in luxury real estate in the Cashiers area, has added a full-time marketing director to its team. A proven expert and accredited professional with more than 25 years of experience, Kara Addy is clearly the right woman for this demanding role. Addy’s career has included leadership roles with institutions of higher education as well as nonprofit organizations …
Enjoy Our Secret
During the winter to early-spring months, the Cashiers-Highlands high-elevation Plateau comes alive during a “secret season.” It offers visitors a wide array of experiences like lacing up ski boots and skates, reflecting in front of a crackling fire, enjoying popular year-round restaurants, and even using photo backdrops of dramatic frozen rock faces. Another bonus? The potential of a snowy vacation …
Rotary Personified
Bill Edwards seems like a perfect match for the Rotary Club of Highlands. You see him pitching in on community projects around the Plateau – the club’s Fourth of July Barbecue, Community Dinners at the Highlands Community Building, The Twilight 5K Run, and his beloved Boy Scout Troop 207. All of that energy and commitment dovetails with the mission of …
Being a Farmer Ain’t for Sissies
Being a farmer in the mountains is not for sissies or the faint of body! Year-End financial gifts to Carpe Diem have once again helped to bring the hay to the herd. It’s a very blessed day when the semi-truck arrives on the farm and the arduous task of unloading nearly nineteen ton of orchard grass from an Amish farm …
A Park for the People
A couple walking their two dogs every evening. A group of bird watchers with binoculars looking for Red-breasted Nuthatches. A young mother with her toddler swinging, slidin’ and climbing. A family enjoying a picnic lunch. Neighbors attending a concert together. Someone searching for a new original art acquisition or a unique gift for a friend. An individual curious to learn more …
The Role of a Mentor
How many of you remember having a special person in your life that you knew you could turn to for support, advice or even just to have a casual chat with? Who was that person that impacted your life in such a way that when you reflect on your lifetime growth, you attribute credit to their influence? Most of us …
Camp Is Calling & I Must Go
When a nine-year-old child on a Friday afternoon, completely unsolicited and out of the blue, looks up to you and says, “This has been the best week of my life,” well… you just know you’ve done something extraordinarily special in someone’s world. That’s what Critter Camp at the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society does for local animal-loving children. The quote above is …
