The New Highland County Blog!

            On April 4, 2017, Martha Walker, a community viability specialist with Virginia Cooperative Extension, came to Highland County to meet with representatives from the Highland County Chamber of Commerce, Highland Economic Development, Highland Tourism Council, and The Highland Center to work with all organizations on a visioning project. The goal of this project was to better develop a vision and clear mission and responsibilities for all attending organizations to assist these groups in working in a more cohesive fashion, helping to accomplish goals of all organizations in a more efficient manner, to eliminate the risk of duplicating work, and to use all manpower in the most efficient manner.

            As one of the many results of this meeting, a new goal was set to better and more efficiently meet the need of internal and external communication among these partners. While these groups meet on a regular basis for many different projects, a general update on current goals among all organizations was lacking. In an effort to remedy this situation, one representative from each organization formed a committee to address this issue. After several meetings, the committee came to the conclusion that we need a simple but effective system that would allow us to meet, exchange information internally, and present that information externally, or publicly, to our community and other organizations within the community.

            As a way to remedy this issue in the most effective and efficient way possible, the group agreed to meet once a month in an informal discussion with representatives from all a fore mentioned groups to give a brief but informative report on the current projects of each office in an effort to encourage more awareness of all on-going projects. Additionally, all groups agreed there needed to be a public outlet to post these updates.

            After seeing the need for a county/community blog for the past few years, the group decided it was time to implement this blog to post updates from these meetings as well as other posts that would allow these groups (and possibly other groups) to post more in depth details about their projects or other newsworthy items.

            The group determined this blog would have an upbeat, positive, vibe that would be informative to our community without any negative undertone. It is the committee’s desire for the news presented on this blog to be educational and beneficial to our community and establish a source where people can read good news or find information on issues in question.


            It is the hope of the committee that this blog becomes a source for Highland County citizens, visitors, and potential residents to learn about the great things that are happening in Highland County!

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  1. Join us for ALPHA (see www.alphausa.org) beginning Monday, September 25 (and 10 consecutive Mondays) to explore questions about life and the Christian faith in a causal setting while we enjoy a free dinner, 30 minute DVD exploring questions of life as well as a 30 minute small group discussion. No experience necessary! We will meet from 6:00-8:00 in the Fellowship Hall of Monterey Presbyterian Church. ALL ARE WELCOME

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