It's never too early to be thinking about the playoffs, and Lake Placid volleyball coach Marilyn Jones is using this week to get her girls in the right frame of mind as the postseason approaches. ...more

October 22, 2008

Don Clifford, vice president of real estate development for Farmer's Market Buffet LLC, summed up the reason for the restaurant's abrupt closing in two words "pure economics." ...more

September 28, 2008

Despite windy conditions, the Sebring girls golf team managed to ease past Bartow on Thursday afternoon. ...more

September 6, 2008

Surrounded by a sea of sugarcane, this poverty-ravaged town on the southeastern edge of Lake Okeechobee always has been one of the country's most fertile football areas. ...more

August 17, 2008

Surrounded by a sea of sugarcane, this poverty-ravaged town on the southeastern edge of Lake Okeechobee has long been one of the country's most fertile football areas. ...more

August 17, 2008

Your editorial last week supporting the Florida's congressional delegation's concerns with Governor Crist regarding the land purchase with U.S. Sugar was inappropriate and possibly harmful to the effort to restore the Everglades. ...more

August 6, 2008

Timing is everything, and when it comes to convincing voters to support increasing their property taxes even for good causes is a difficult sell in the best of times. We're not even close to good economic times around here. ...more

August 1, 2008

Helping Those At Risk Regarding "Region Needs To Wake Up To Teen Sex Trafficking" (Our Opinion, July 13): ...more

July 20, 2008

The state's plan to buy 187,000 acres from U.S. Sugar Corp. worries the residents of Clewiston, whose town near Lake Okeechobee grew up with the sugar industry and is threatened by the loss of its main industry. ...more

July 20, 2008

Jim Withers sat in the back room of his small barbershop smoking a cigarette and studying his computer screen. ...more

July 13, 2008