AVON PARK — Residents throughout Avon Park and Sebring have probably noticed more noise than usual in the sky this week. Troops ended a large-scale training exercise Monday at Avon Park Air Force Range for air-to-ground missions. Although this exercise involved bomb replicas, live bombs will be dropped at the range in less than a year. Jim Brantley, spokesman for U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said a bid for a contractor to construct the infrastructure for dropping live bombs will be awarded in about five weeks. Land clearing and construction on towers and instrumentation will start in January 2008. ...more

October 31, 2007

I just heard of something called a solar cooker. Does this really work? Or is it just a story? ...more

October 2, 2007

Last month was the hottest August in 112 years for Florida and seven other Southeastern states, and it was the second-hottest August nationwide. ...more

September 21, 2007