The Hillsboro City Council held a special meeting on Sunday, Nov. 1 to approve an ordinance regarding funding for the new police and fire building.

If you and your family are looking for something to do this weekend, plan to attend Leesburg’s Artisan Folk Fair Nov. 7 & 8.  Artisans and crafters will be offering items for sale to the public, and many will be demonstrating.  There will be scroll saw masters, leather workers, soap makers, and weavers.  Artisans will be sewing, crocheting and sharing their talents.  An entire room is dedicated to quilting thanks to several quilt clubs from Highland county.  Vote for your favorite!  The event is held at Fairfield school.

If you and your family are looking for something to do this weekend, plan to attend Leesburg’s Artisan Folk Fair Nov. 7 & 8.  Artisans and crafters will be offering items for sale to the public, and many will be demonstrating.  There will be scroll saw masters, leather workers, soap makers, and weavers.  Artisans will be sewing, crocheting and sharing their talents.  An entire room is dedicated to quilting thanks to several quilt clubs from Highland county.  Vote for your favorite!  The event is held at Fairfield school.

    Let's put you up on a thoroughbred racehorse. Your head is now nine feet off the ground and you are sitting on something that is just a little wider than your keyboard. Your toes are resting in little metal rings and you have a little leather strap to hold onto. The creature underneath you weighs a half of a ton. In a moment I'll open the gates, that creature is going to make one jump that will be longer than your car and then will be running the length of a football field ­ every four seconds. Fifteen more of these half-ton creatures will be running right behind you and your horse. Neither your horse nor the ones behind you have any brakes. I'll open the gates whenever you're ready. Just say when.