It's summertime - I know, officially it begins in three days - and your 36-week fall-winter-spring bowling league concluded a couple of weeks ago. ...more

June 18, 2008

It's summertime - I know, officially it begins in three days - and your 36-week fall-winter-spring bowling league concluded a couple of weeks ago. ...more

June 18, 2008

It's summertime - I know, officially it begins in three days - and your 36-week fall-winter-spring bowling league concluded a couple of weeks ago. ...more

June 18, 2008

It's summertime - I know, officially it begins in three days - and your 36-week fall-winter-spring bowling league concluded a couple of weeks ago. ...more

June 18, 2008

All 211 of Florida's Democratic presidential delegates will be seated at the party's national convention, but with only half of their voting strength, a Democratic Party panel ruled Saturday. ...more

June 1, 2008

SEBRING — Highlands County will save $41,000 on the new traffic signal at Memorial Drive and Valerie Boulevard by having county crews do the project in-house. County commissioners approved the county's Road and Bridge Department and traffic department doing the job, with supervision by the county engineer's staff. The total project will cost $140,000, county Engineer Ramon Gavarrete told the commissioners Tuesday. That is more than $41,000 less than the cost of $181,427 to have a private contractor do the job, Gavarrete said. ...more

May 27, 2008

SEBRING — The busy intersection of Memorial Drive and Valerie Boulevard will be further improved for safety by adding a traffic signal and three turning lanes. The intersection, north of Sebring and south of Avon Park, is now a four-way stop. Highlands County Engineer Ramon Gavarrete said a traffic-crash problem at Memorial and Valerie was solved last year when traffic control there was upgraded from a two-way stop to a four-way stop. Now, Gavarrete said, a traffic signal is needed because traffic volume is expected to increase greatly when the new Memorial Drive Elementary School opens in late August. ...more

May 24, 2008

Hurricane Charley, one of the most destructive storms to strike the United States, is getting the Disney treatment. ...more

May 18, 2008

SEBRING — Highlands County is likely to snag nearly one-third of the $10.5 million that Gov. Charlie Crist convinced the Legislature to award in local-government grants for innovative recycling projects this fiscal year. One hundred and forty cities and counties applied for these grants, officially called the "Fiscal Year 2008-09 Innovative Recycling/Waste Reduction Grants." After reviewing all 140 applications, the state Department of Environmental Protection picked the top 33 projects based on merit. The Legislature has appropriated $10.56 million for this grant program for fiscal 2008-09, a reduction from the $12.4 million allocated for this program the year before. ...more

February 2, 2008

It was late August, 1963. I was 12. I remember my father calling me into his room. The radio was on, and I heard cheering. It was not a baseball game kind of cheer. It seemed louder and longer. It was a sustained roar. ...more

January 21, 2008