Fourteen years ago, the Hillsborough County Commission voted to strip gay rights protections out of the county's human rights ordinance. ...more

October 22, 2009

SEBRING — Ramon Gavarrete, the Highlands County engineer, and Ken Wheeler, the county's director of solid waste, are the two finalists for the new position of director of the division of public works. County Administrator Carol and two citizens panels picked the five finalists for the public works and public safety division director jobs on Thursday, after interviewing more than two dozen candidates. Cool said he could not officially announce the names of the five finalists — three for public safety division director and only two for public works division director — until background checks for all five had been completed satisfactorily. ...more

February 17, 2008

SEBRING –– Three employees in the Highlands County budget department were fired Monday morning for "the nature of, and the volume of, text messages sent on county computers," said county Administrator Carl Cool. ...more

January 28, 2008