2024-25 Highland County Boys Basketball Leading Scorers. Varsity, regular-season stats only. Players must play in a majority of games for consideration. All stats compiled by The Highland County Press. Stats updated through Jan. 2.

An eight-count indictment that includes first-, second- and third-degree felony drug charges against a Greenfield man was unsealed Thursday after the suspect was arrested.

The Highland County Board of Developmental Disabilities will be holding their organizational and regular scheduled monthly meetings Jan. 21 at 6 p.m.

Sarah Fullenkamp, County Executive Director of the Highland County Farm Service Agency, would like to remind drought-impacted livestock producers of the upcoming deadline of the 2024 Livestock Forage Program (LFP) and 2024 Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP).

Highland County commissioners Brad Roades, Terry Britton and David Daniels voted Wednesday, Jan. 15 to establish a euthanasia policy for animals housed at the Highland County Dog Pound.

The Highland County Dog Pound has the following dogs available for adoption or rescue pulls as of Jan. 15, listed courtesy of the Friends of the Highland County Dog Pound.

Highland County commissioners Brad Roades, Terry Britton and David Daniels proclaimed January as Highland County Suicide Prevention Month during their Wednesday, Jan. 15 meeting.

A Leesburg man was sentenced last week to at least five years in prison and ordered to forfeit over $20,000 after pleading guilty to a first-degree felony drug trafficking charge.

A Hillsboro man indicted on three counts, including second-degree felony burglary, was one of 15 individuals charged by a Highland County grand jury in their first session of the 2025 calendar year Tuesday, Jan. 14.

2024-25 Highland County Girls Basketball Leading Scorers. Varsity stats only. Players must play in a majority of games for consideration. All stats compiled by The Highland County Press. Stats updated through Jan. 3.

Highland County Sports Schedule for the week of Jan. 13-19 (varsity only). Schedules subject to change.

A Hillsboro man was sentenced to community control and ordered to serve 30 days in jail recently after pleading guilty to one count of assault on a peace officer.

The New Vienna Lions Club’s January program was presented by Clinton-Highland Joint Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief Steve Huff.

A Lynchburg man’s sentence in a felonious assault and abduction case was reduced by two years this week, after the Fourth District Court of Appeals reversed the original judgment in a decision issued in November.

As projected, Highland County set a record for permissive sales tax receipts collected for a fifth consecutive year in 2024, according to a report by county auditor Alex Butler at the Wednesday, Jan. 8 commissioners meeting. His report also included an update on soon-to-be-released tax rates for upcoming property tax bills.