LAKE PLACID — All four members of the town council favored drafting an ordinance that might pave the way for installation of cameras at the intersection of Interlake Boulevard and U.S. 27 in an effort to curtail red light violators. ...more

November 21, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Every 16-year-old driver's education student is taught the basics, including stop for all active railroad crossings. But on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 13, several frustrated drivers ignored the red flashing lights and loud clanging, and skirted past the downed safety arms while crossing the tracks on Interlake Boulevard, just east of DeVane Park. Fortunately on that evening, and at least 10 times during the past four months, the CSX-controlled signals malfunctioned, and no train rolled through the Interlake Boulevard intersection. Several public officials and council members were caught at the false alarm following the evening's special town council meeting, including Arlene Tuck, town clerk. ...more

November 20, 2007

Regarding the palm trees that were placed on Interlake Boulevard in Lake Placid. Why did they place them where they did? ...more

November 4, 2007

Come on Mayor Katsanis, those beautiful sabal palms planted on Interlake Boulevard look like Disney World! Don't insult the lovely addition to Lake Placid. We're only part-time residents of this area, and if we wanted to go to Disney World, we would have stopped at Orlando. But Lake Placid is our winter home of choice for the very that it isn't Disney World. ...more

November 2, 2007

In regard to your article about Sabal palms now "gracing" Interlake Boulevard, I can say that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. ...more

November 1, 2007

LAKE PLACID — The population of the town could double in less than eight years if a proposed development, by local citrus farmer and landowner Alan Grigsby, is successful. The proposal calls for 942 new homes on 375 acres, or an average density of 2.75 dwelling units per acre. Twenty percent of the site will be set aside for commercial development. The tract of mostly farmland is south of West Interlake Boulevard and east of Catfish Creek Road. Rhon Ernest-Jones Consulting Engineers Inc., the project's consultant, expects a "full build-out" by 2015. Any construction depends on the new construction market, Rhon Ernest-Jones said. ...more

October 31, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Interlake Boulevard is undergoing a sprucing up. Town workers were planting some of 127 Sable Palm trees in a row of three, on Friday, west of U.S. 27 on Interlake Boulevard. The downtown improvements were paid for with a $25,000 Urban and Community Forestry Grant from the Florida Division of Forestry. Sable or cabbage palms are Florida's state tree and several non-native species of trees were removed to make way for the new towering sentinels. ...more

October 28, 2007

LAKE PLACID — It was a small town moment likely repeated a hundred times a day in Lake Placid. ...more

October 17, 2007

Thomas Paul Ludlum, 42, of Lake Placid, entered a guilty plea Wednesday afternoon in the Highlands County Courthouse to counts of first-degree grand theft and the burglary of a structure for his 2006 New Year's Eve theft of a Highlands Independent Bank ATM. ...more

October 11, 2007

LAKE PLACID –– It was about 1:15 p.m. when Adam Hess sat down for an interview. He got out two sentences when tones on his two-way radio sounded. A car had veered off Catfish Creek Road and wound up in low, scrub trees. A hot catalytic converter set the grass on fire. "This always happens," he said, shaking his head in an apology. "I've got to go." Hess and a crew took off in the brush truck and an engine. ...more

September 17, 2007