The Highlands County commissioners appear evenly split - two for, two leaning against and one undecided - on raising the low-income senior homeowners Homestead exemption. ...more

November 17, 2008

Next time you're driving around Highlands County, look around. There are signs everywhere of Bert Harris and the late Sam Polston, said their friends, Don Bates and Claude Howerton. But those signs are subtle. ...more

November 14, 2008

In A 4-1 vote Tuesday, the Highlands County commissioners awarded nine grants for health care totaling more than $360,000 as recommended by the Highlands County Hospital District Board. ...more

October 19, 2008

Although the sign still says it is the Highlands County Agri-Civic Center, the name of the Sebring building that houses offices and hosts meetings and events has been changed. ...more

September 23, 2008

Highlands County Commissioner Don Bates said he always tries to "buy locally." ...more

September 21, 2008

Highlands County government spending for the next fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1, will be set tonight, and last-minute budget cuts - possibly up to $1.3 million and maybe more - are virtually certain. ...more

September 16, 2008

Highlands County commissioners said they would take one last look at more possible cuts in the county's proposed budget for next year. And all but one constitutional officer said that if they must make cuts, they will. But the harm these cuts would have on our county would far surpass any supposed benefits they would bring. ...more

September 7, 2008

Highlands County commissioners agreed to consider last-minute budget cuts which would drop the property tax millage rate from 7.3354 to 7 mills even. ...more

September 7, 2008

Edgar Stokes, chairman of the Highlands County commissioners, kicked off the county's investigation into spraying pesticides, by both airplanes and trucks, to battle the expected hordes of mosquitoes that will probably descend on the county in the wake of Fay and the three new tropical storms headed toward or near the Florida peninsula. ...more

September 3, 2008

The Highlands County commissioners approved in theory giving local contractors and vendors an advantage in getting county contracts on Tuesday. ...more

August 27, 2008