All throughout the valley, my eye catches on countless beautiful spring wildflowers that seem to vie for my attention. It is really difficult to get anything done. I just want to stop whatever I might be doing and sit down among them.

Less than three years after settling an ongoing delinquent tax issue, Hangar 6 owner George Matthews this month filed a civil lawsuit against the Highland County Board of Commissioners and Highland County Airport Authority, seeking “a full refund of all amounts paid.”

It has been an honor to serve the citizens, and I am committed to making Hillsboro the best it can be. I’m confident in the team working for you. This is an extraordinary group of talented individuals who work tirelessly to improve our city each and every day.

This week (April 20, 2023), it will be 21 months until the next U.S. presidential inauguration. What are some possible scenarios between now and then?

In 1856, a new Hillsborough Female College was constructed on the west end of Main Street. It was located between Main and West Walnut at Oak Street.

The Hillsboro Lady Indians earned their sixth win of the season Monday night by defeating the Washington Lady Blue Lions, 13-3, as this was the Frontier Athletic Conference opener for the 2023 season.

Special thanks is extended to two area residents – Bob Hodson and Jim Lukens – for recently sharing a bit of local history with The Highland County Press.

The National Weather Service has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for Highland and surrounding counties from 10 p.m. Friday, March 31 until 4 a.m. Saturday, April 1 (no foolin'.)

AI development is at the point where researchers are not sure when its intelligence will surpass humanity’s and concede perhaps it already has. Earlier this week, an open letter containing names like Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) and others gained over 1,000 (latest count 2,137) signatures calling for at least a six-month pause in training the AI systems to be more powerful than Chat GPT-4. Others are saying the pause needs to be 30 years. Good luck with that.

The Hillsboro Christian Academy Crusaders have begun their first season of boys varsity volleyball.

Our lack of acceptance of many issues on the table today is simply because no one has made the effort to explain them in a way we can understand. As long as they can be lazy and just implement such issues by government fiat, they will not attempt to explain them. Such an attitude is an insult to democracy and to our citizens.

An Hillsboro man was sentenced to prison recently after pleading guilty to failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer.