A water main break has occurred due to construction in Lake Placid. The area affected is the east side of U.S. 27 from Lakeview Road, north of the Holiday Inn (not including the Holiday Inn,) including Lake Clay Drive and Paradise Mobile Home Park. ...more

June 29, 2009

SEBRING — Good writers learn it right away – write about what you know – and Sebring snowbird Kathryn Neff Perry seemingly learned that lesson well. Perry recently published her second novel, "Boone's Creek – Almost Home." Several locations in the novel should be familiar to Highlands County residents, including Lake Jackson, The Kenilworth Lodge, Chicanes and the sheriff's office. "I love Sebring," said Perry."That's where my heart is." ...more

May 25, 2008

SEBRING — Two Highlands County commissioners, Don Bates and Guy Maxcy, launched negotiations through a designated county spokesman to obtain one acre of prime, white-sand-beach lakefront on troubled Lake Denton. Maxcy and Bates asked Ken Melvin, one of the seven people on the commissioner-appointed Lake Denton Citizens Advisory Committee, to informally negotiate the county's obtaining that one-acre of Lake Denton lakefront with the president and CEO of a fifth-generation Highlands County citrus/ranch family. ...more

January 10, 2008