With picture postcard weather and calm water, the 25th annual Leon Tolar Memorial Fishing Tournament attracted a large number of youngsters and parents to HL Bishop Park on Saturday. ...more

March 16, 2009

Highlands County commissioners voted Tuesday to award a total of $236,300 to help fund recreation improvements in Avon Park, and rejected a proposed lease for a private marina and convenience store on Lake June in Winter in Lake Placid. ...more

December 3, 2008

Ever took a boat out to Lake June lately? According to one of them, about 150 boaters did one recent weekend. ...more

August 5, 2008

SEBRING — When the flames during a brush fire start licking the roof, it might be too late to save your home. So the idea is to start early, as about 40 members of the Leisure Lake Homeowner Civic Association learned first-hand Monday. Firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry showed the residents how to best protect themselves and their structures from wildfires. "There's just not enough fire equipment to save every home, so we're asking the community to protect their homes," said speaker Melissa Yunas of the Florida Division of Forestry at the Lake Bishop Park Community Center. "Take a step to educated yourselves – to protect yourselves." Fire officials told residents about the Firewise Communities USA recognition program, a federal program where participants are grouped by neighborhoods that are deemed most susceptible to wildfires. ...more

February 19, 2008