Thirty years, a snowstorm unlike anything anyone on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau had ever seen, and a momentous celebration to commemorate both.
At last Thursday’s meeting, the Highlands Town Board approved a number of items that will now move forward. Let me review several major decisions that were made.
Last Thursday, the town board and staff conducted an all-day budget workshop, aka the Highlands Town Retreat. This event signaled the start of the budget process for the coming year. It will be f
It’s a fitting coincidence that Sunshine Week 2023 happens to fall during the week that both local elected bodies governing Highlands are scheduled to meet.
Last Friday afternoon, in anticipation of bad weather, I was in town hall monitoring the weather situation with our town manager and public works director. Problems started around 2:30 with the to
We aren’t mad.
We’re disappointed.
On the morning of February 22 I rendezvoused with town manager Josh Ward at the Ingles parking lot in Franklin.
If you spend any time in Highlands, you know how big the role is that nonprofit organizations play in daily life.
I was optimistic, and the staff was too, that the town would receive a state grant to replace the aging pre-clarifier tank at the water tank.
Henry Ford once said, “Businesses that grow by development and innovation, do not die.”