ARCADIA — There may have been just two boys competing in the 17-18 year-old boys division at Thursday's Sertoma Junior Tour stop at The Bluffs golf course, but that didn't stop Sebring's Blake Liles and Avon Park's Greg Gentry from making a match of it. ...more

June 21, 2008

SEBRING — In the living room, there's a couch, but no chairs, no coffee table, not even a painting on the wall. Visitors sit at the kitchen table. In the bedrooms, there are two bunk bed mattresses, but no bed frame. And nothing else. Paul isn't a minimalist, he was homeless last week. Until two weeks ago, Paul, who didn't want to give his last name, was living in a domestic violence shelter with his children, and was one of 15 Highlands County residents given a place to live by the Agency for Community Treatment Services Inc. "We need a homeless shelter in Highlands County, bad," said Terri McClelland, the local ACTS housing case manager, who helps the homeless. ...more

February 7, 2008