The Spring Lake Improvement District Board of Supervisors are again violating their oaths of office and are not doing the will of the people. They are now asking the state Legislature for broad new powers that through assessment powers would drive many senior homeowners into foreclosure. These are trying times for many seniors who are on fixed incomes. We are nationwide in the greatest financial crunch that America has ever seen. ...more

November 11, 2009

The Cory Lake Isles Community Development District's board of supervisors is studying options to fix a fountain and add traffic-calming devices at the gate leading to Cross Creek Boulevard. ...more

November 4, 2009

With village entryway makeovers nearly completed, community leaders have set their sights on sprucing up street signs peppering Tampa Palms Areas 1 and 2. ...more

October 21, 2009

Officials in central Virginia approved a Walmart Supercenter early Tuesday near one of the nation's most important Civil War battlefields, a proposal that had stirred opposition by preservationists and hundreds of historians. ...more

August 26, 2009

A lawsuit was filed Aug. 14 by Raymond F. Maguire Trust that names Highlands County Tax Collector Charles Bryan as the primary defendant. ...more

August 20, 2009

Isn't it great that the taxpayers of Sun n' Lake of Sebring are going to sue themselves (as taxpayers of Highlands County). The Sun 'n Lake board of supervisors (majority elected by NRPI) does not think that we, the people, understand how crucial the big landowners are to the success of Sun n' Lake. I recommend impeachment or recall but that can only be done, I suppose, by a vote of the landowners. Certainly the current board won't step down. They'd rather waste our taxes and assessments fighting a decision made by the same county government that originally established Sun n' Lake. And I feel the people will ultimately win but only after a long and expensive battle that only enriches the lawyers. ...more

April 19, 2009

The residents of Spring Lake subdivision are currently facing what is perhaps the most serious attempt by a public body to change forever the character, feel and costs associated with living here. ...more

April 12, 2009

A crowd of about 100 people stood up and cheered the Highlands County commissioners Tuesday morning when they voted unanimously to change the voting rules at the Sun 'n Lake special district. ...more

April 7, 2009

Days after an announcement by parent company TOUSA to wind down production, Engle Homes, the developer of Live Oak Preserve, is relinquishing some of its authority at the development. Engle Homes Vice President Rick Feather said all Engle employees who serve on the Live Oak I, Live Oak II and The Hammocks' community development district boards are stepping down immediately. "We resigned under the advice of counsel," Feather said. Feather served as a board supervisor on all of the three developer-controlled CDDs. Engle employees Lauren Arcaro, Dennis DeMott and Michael Mulvihill were members of the Live Oak II and The Hammocks boards. ...more

April 1, 2009

The electoral system that has given large property owners at Sun 'n Lake of Sebring the ability to elect a majority of the seats on the special district's board of supervisors could be coming to an end. ...more

March 29, 2009