The Blue Streak baseball team breezed past a tottery Tornado defense and rolled to a 17-1, five-inning victory over Booker on Tuesday in Class 4A-District 10 action at Firemen's Field. ...more

March 5, 2009

In a recent front-page story in Highlands Today, it reported on the growing number of calls from parents to law enforcement regarding basic parenting issues, such as getting kids to come in the house or other disciplinary problems. This leaves most people dumbstruck that this is what we have become. It explains a lot of what's wrong in many areas of our society. ...more

March 4, 2009

Sebring High School senior Megan Wolfe and Lake Placid junior Tammi Beach competed in the Florida Swimming Spring Senior Championships at the YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando over the weekend. ...more

March 3, 2009

Stanley Massaline has spent his adult life - 29 years - cooking in the cafeteria for the Kenilworth Care & Rehabilitation Center. But two weeks ago, he was terminated. ...more

March 1, 2009

Bartow used a balanced offense and took advantage of a pair of Sebring errors to blank the Blue Streaks 6-0 in a non-district baseball game at Firemen's Field on Thursday night. ...more

February 28, 2009

Cody Higgins was 2-for-4 with a two-run home run in the top of the sixth on Thursday to lead the Sebring baseball team to a 6-2 district-opening victory over Palmetto. ...more

February 26, 2009

In his Broadway debut, Mandy Patinkin won a Tony Award for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita." ...more

February 24, 2009

All five Avon Park wrestlers won their opening-round matches on Friday morning at the Class 1A state wrestling meet at Lakeland Center. ...more

February 21, 2009

As community resource director for Big Brothers Big Sisters in Highlands County, I would like to share our heartfelt thanks to the community for supporting our agency. ...more

February 21, 2009

Some time ago I wrote concerning feral cats. I urged removal of the front claws to stop cats from climbing trees and eating a nest of baby birds (I visualize the size of a nest of baby birds to the size of a can of cat food.) I have seen nothing in your paper regarding this. According to an article in Highlands Today on what is being done for feral cats, it will take five years to get the problem under control in our small area? What do the bird people think about this? ...more

February 20, 2009