SEBRING – Travelers and visitors to Sebring will now have access to information about the community on the weekend since the Sebring Chamber of Commerce Welcome Center is now open on Saturdays from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sarah Pallone, the chamber's membership and administration manager, said extending the days of operation for the center was one of the goals CEO Dan Andrews had set when the chamber moved into the building in the Village Fountain shopping plaza at the corner of Flare Road and U.S. 27. "The board of directors felt we needed to be open," she said. ...more

January 20, 2008

Like most of you, I read the newspaper almost every day. It's a morning ritual: coffee, newspaper, CNN. My mother insists that, me being a columnist for Highlands Today, I should get a free newspaper out of the deal. "What, they can't throw you a free paper?" she'll say. I explain to her that I'm already getting paid for my weekly column. I know this may be a shock to some of you, that I actually get paid for this stuff. Perhaps I've blown a fantasy out of the water for you, that world famous writers get free newspapers. Let me throw you another curveball. Writers are not exempt from police visits to their home. Wednesday of last week I was sitting inside my house, reading through the newspaper, when the doorbell rang. There were two men outside, one of them holding up a bright shiny police badge. ...more

January 14, 2008