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Sip and Shop

JMcLaughlin will host the third annual Sip and Shop to benefit Founder’s Park from 12:30 to 4:30 P.M. Saturday, May 28. Come to this event and enjoy light refreshments as you shop the Summer 2016 Collection of men’s and women’s clothing and accessories at J McLaughlin on Main Street in Highlands.  In addition, 15 percent of all purchases made during …

Winery and Finery

Once a year The Bascom brings out its best winery and finery for the event of the season ‘…the Collective Spirits Wine and Food Festival.  Not only is it three days of sumptuous tastes and vintage spirits, the affair is a chance to connect with friends, be treated like royalty, and snap up classy auction items. Over 600 attendees will …

Knowledge at Your Fingertips

The Center for Life Enrichment is springing to life with a fresh slate of new courses and offerings.    For Arts and Architecture, we’re offering “Beginning Drawing,” “Existential Themes in Film Noir,” and “The Utopian Communities” (this lecture is in conjunction with The Bascom’s exhibition, “Another Better World”). In the fascinating arena of Computers and Technology, where some of us …


Founder’s Park Food and Fun

Spring and warm weather means it’s time again for Highlands Marketplace.  Held in the Kelsey-Hutchinson Park on Saturdays from 8:00 A.M. to noon, this is the spot to find a variety of homegrown goods and fresh dairy products.   The Market has been a blessing to folks looking to buy fresh, local produce, honey, and other homemade goodness.  Since no …

Magical Botanical

The merry month of May signals the start of many programs, classes, and events for the Highlands Biological Station.  We hope you’ll join us to welcome spring by stopping in at the Nature Center, taking a stroll around the Botanical Garden or signing up for one of our classes or programs.    Wildflower Whimsy is a two-day event taking place Friday, …

Choral Workshop and Concert

On Saturday, May 7, Highlands First Presbyterian Church’s Chancel Choir will host a Choral Workshop, open to all interested singers in the area.   Participants will perform in a concert for the public at 7:00 P.M. that evening in the church’s sanctuary.  The event will be facilitated by Master British Composer/Conductor Philip W.J. Stopford, a close friend of First Presbyterian …


Chamber’s Sneak Peek at 2016

Throughout the year the Highlands Chamber of Commerce works overtime, making sure the Plateau is thriving with activity.   While Chamber members are busy implementing scheduled programs, concerts, outings, etc., they are also brainstorming events for the following season.  The Chamber generates a jam-packed calendar that not only appeals to visitors and residents from toddlers to seniors, but to the …

Art for a Cause

The Village Green in Cashiers will come alive this Memorial Day weekend as some of the region’s finest artisans converge for the bi-annual Cashiers Rotary Arts & Crafts Show.  The show takes place on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29, from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. both days, rain or shine.  While admission is free, a suggested donation of …

The Art of Wine

Collective Spirits Wine and Food Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary.   Be sure to Save-The-Date the weekend of May 19–21 for a fabulous fundraising festival benefitting The Bascom’s free programming and subsidized classes.  It’s the art center’s biggest fundraiser of the year and certainly the most tantalizing for your tastebuds. The Private Wine Dinners on Thursday, May 19, feature in-home …


Cashiers Library: Community Resource

You may believe that with lengthening days and gorgeous weather, people would be inclined to spend less time inside Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library. Sure, people need books about gardening or hiking guides, but how on earth can the library attract patrons in this most sublime of seasons? Well, there are concrete reasons that this venerable institution remains a treasured year-round …

300 Cyclists, 10,000 Feet

Register now for the 24th annual Tour de Cashiers, slated for May 14, by visiting tourdecashiers.com.   Coordinated by the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce and assisted by Pisgah Productions of Asheville, Jackson County Law Enforcement and numerous local volunteers, this annual event boasts entrants from across the Southeast and as far away as Idaho. May is the perfect time …

The Green Scene

April, the month when spring announces its intention to stay by providing us with more daylight hours, more sunshine, budding trees, and gorgeous flowers, is also the time when we all kick into our spring cleaning mode.   Mother Nature is sprucing things up so it seems only natural that we would start freshening up too.  Highlanders take their spring …