PREP BASEBALL ...more

May 9, 2008

LAKE PLACID — After taking over as head coach of the Lake Placid football program in May of 2007, Tim Grant didn't have a lot of time to make major changes. ...more

May 2, 2008

FORT MEADE - Firefighters have contained a 10-acre brush fire off District Line Road and State Road 60 in south-central Polk County, a fire services spokeswoman said. ...more

May 2, 2008

Daily high school prep results ...more

April 1, 2008

AVON PARK — "This week's going to be crazy" said Rebecca Perry as she started reaching into an old tractor's steering column. On and off for the past 11 months after school, four students repainted the tractor's body and bolted on several parts, finding a few hours after school between their studies as well as their "animal" raising. They were almost done Wednesday afternoon, 10 days ahead of next Saturday's tractor ride. Brandon Cooper and Randy Richardson helped connect some wires on the tractor. Perry, with her hands covered in black grease from handling its parts, left to take care of her pigs but shortly came back with her mom, Sally Perry, and two bags of McDonald's food. Sarah Richardson, the group's "historian," was finishing a scrapbook of the project. After all this work, they'll only use the tractor once. ...more

February 8, 2008

AVON PARK — The police chief search committee has thinned out its field of applicants, leaving 14 candidates out of the 61 who sent their resumes to then-city manager C.B. Shirey to seek Avon Park's top police job. Highlands Today confirmed that the field includes at least four applicants from Highlands County and at least two from the Fort Meade area. City officials provided a list of the 14 candidates with titles for the last positions they held, but more details on the candidates were not released. Interim City Manager Sarah Adelt said the committee originally trimmed the field to 15 candidates, but one of them removed himself from consideration after he was hired elsewhere. Eight of the 14 candidates last held high-ranking positions in local police departments, with three of them being current or former police chiefs. Adelt said that all 14 entries on the "short list" have law enforcement experience. Adelt said she's hoping the committee will narrow it to "no more than five candidates, hopefully three" within the next two weeks. ...more

February 5, 2008

Girls basktball results, schedule ...more

February 3, 2008

Indian Rocks Christian proved it's a team game Saturday night as the Golden Eagles defeated Tampa Prep 41-34 to win the Class 2A-District 9 girls basketball championship. ...more

February 3, 2008

Round four has begun in the protracted search for a manager to lead this city of 7,200 residents. ...more

January 12, 2008

SEBRING –– The game was all but over at halftime, but the memories from the ninth annual South-Central Florida All-Star Football Classic will last much longer for the players involved. The Central team –– made up of seniors from Avon Park, Bartow, Fort Meade, Haines City, Hardee, Lake Placid, Lake Wales, Okeechobee and Sebring –– went up by four touchdowns at the half and cruised to a 42-6 victory over the South squad in a game filled with turnovers, penalties, and –– perhaps most of all –– smiles. "Our big concept from day one was 'Hey fellas, you might have been enemies before, but we're all on the same team this weekend,' " said Lake Placid coach Tim Grant, who led the Central squad. "But this was still our home turf, and we wanted to protect it." The Central team did just that, getting touchdowns from Sebring's Sam Robinson and T.J. Williams and holding the South team's stars –– made up of seniors from Charlotte, DeSoto, LaBelle, Lemon Bay, Moore Haven, North Port and Port Charlotte –– to less than 70 yards of offense at the half. Sebring's Isaac Fernandez, one of seven Blue Streaks on the field, said the win was satisfying in more ways than one. ...more

December 24, 2007