Highlands residents this week received the 2023 Borough calendar in the mail, the production of which was a joint effort among Mayor Carolyn Broullon, office staff and the Highlands Historical Society. The cooperative effort was first initiated and launched by the Communications Committee in 2017 and all the groups and departments within the borough are invited to give their input into creating the calendar.
The cost of the colorful and newsy Highlands calendar, including both local history and events and information for throughout 2023 and January of next year, was covered in part through a Clean Communities Grant since it contains all the necessary information for trash, recycling, and how to properly dispose of items of all kinds.
Each of the photographs, depicting an earlier Highlands included in the calendar are in Borough Hall.
Informational pages in the calendar also include contacts and information for the Highlands Fire Department and First Aid Squad as well as contract numbers and e-mail and street addresses for all borough departments. The calendar also includes contacts for the Mayor and Council and the dates of scheduled meetings.
Dates on each monthly page include borough office hours, legal and special holidays, and meeting dates for various community organizations in the borough.
Each page, in addition to the historic photo of a scene in Highlands, also include a paragraph on a historic fact about the borough, with information ranging from when Highlands was the center for the illegal smuggling of liquor from offshore ships by rumrunners during Prohibition to how English Channel swimmer Gertrude Ederle learned to swim in the fast current of the Shrewsbury River.
Residents wishing calendars can pick one up at the borough office.
