Highlands County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Riley says he was hit in the chest by a thrown cellphone Saturday night after being dispatched to a Decatur Street home to check on an argument. ...more

November 5, 2009

The utilities department of Lake Placid is rescinding a precautionary boil water notice issued June 26 for the east side of U.S. 27 from Lakeview Road, Lake Clay Drive to Lagrow Road. ...more

July 1, 2009

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

The Highlands County commissioners agreed Tuesday to work with the Southwest Florida Water Management District on stopping the pollution threat from storm water run-off into picturesque Lake Clay in Lake Placid. ...more

November 29, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Two Highlands County employees were treated in what appeared to be an Africanized bee attack Monday afternoon, multiple county officials said. Parks and recreation maintenance workers Jason Gonzalez and Tim Neese ran nearly half a mile from a tree at 1501 Lake Clay Drive, Lake Placid, crossing a bridge and a canal to escape the swarm, Highlands County Emergency Management Director Bill Nichols said. After they escaped the bees, Gonzalez and Neese tried to return for their lawn mowers, but the bees went after them again, stinging Gonzalez three or four times. Neese couldn't count how many of them hit him. ...more

June 16, 2008

raleigh whiteman column ...more

September 20, 2007