The Schooni's Family Restaurant team scored big early and often and held off a fierce really by Michelle Yates Insurance on Wednesday to hold onto a 24-11 victory in Lake Placid Senior Softball League play at the lake June ball fields, capping off a somber week for the league. ...more

March 6, 2009

Water foamed and splashed around eight women Monday morning in the Buttonwood Bay pool as they vigorously practiced water aerobics. ...more

September 16, 2008

Highlands County has an emergency preparedness plan to deal with any type of disaster, natural or man-made, for the entire county. ...more

September 14, 2008

SEBRING — Some of you already found your new phone book lying on the driveway, so now what are you going to do with your old one? If you're planning to throw it away, the schools and some homeowners associations around the county would rather you left it with one of them. And not with anyone else, either. "We have the telephone book challenge with the homeowner associations as well as the schools," said Sherri Cooper, the coordinator of Keep Highlands Beautiful which also runs the county's recycling program. ...more

November 26, 2007

SEBRING — It's time again to stand in restaurant lines a little bit longer and for traffic volume to increase. The annual southern flight of snowbirds to Highlands County started a couple of weeks earlier than usual, according to several residents and local officials. ...more

October 3, 2007