Highlands County commissioners voted Tuesday to award a total of $236,300 to help fund recreation improvements in Avon Park, and rejected a proposed lease for a private marina and convenience store on Lake June in Winter in Lake Placid. ...more

December 3, 2008

Lake June in Winter Scrub State Park and 18 other state parks might temporarily close for the 2009-2010 Fiscal Year. ...more

October 21, 2008

The secret to the Big Canoe Challenge was this: The team that rows together will win. ...more

October 20, 2008

On Oct. 30, 2007, Highlands County Sheriff's deputies knocked on the door of Nelson Rodriguez, 549 Washington Place, in the middle-class Leisure Lakes subdivision west of Lake June In Winter. ...more

September 17, 2008

Admission to all 161 Florida state parks is free Sunday, July 13. To celebrate July as Recreation and Parks Month, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Recreation & Parks is encouraging family-friendly, outdoor recreation with the launch of its "Family. Friends. Fun." campaign to reconnect children and families with nature. ...more

June 29, 2008