Army Cpl. Eddie Moorehead, 26, of Lake Placid, is one of three veterans taking advantage of the Veterans Work-Study Allowance Program, an educational entitlement under the Veterans GI Bill, at the Heartland Workforce. ...more

November 11, 2009

It didn't take long for the victory bells to ring for the Lake Placid softball team and the sound was music to coach Marilyn Jones' ears. ...more

February 10, 2009

After splitting with Frostproof during the regular season, the Lake Placid girls soccer team was full of confidence heading into Thursday night's Class 3A-District 8 tournament championship match. ...more

January 24, 2009

Taking over the reins of the Lake Placid girls soccer team was made much easier for first-year coach John Merlo with an abundance of talent back from last year's district runner-up squad. ...more

November 25, 2008

Exit Realty All Stars held a huge garage sale, bake sale and car wash at its Sebring office last month. ...more

July 27, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Marilyn Jones just shook her head, smiled and wondered aloud when she'd see her team play a complete game this season. "They hit the ball for one inning and then take the rest of the game off," said the LP head coach, who watched her Green Dragons fall 13-3 to All-Saints Academy in a six-inning mercy-rule game on Friday. Lake Placid has struggled all season with consistency at the plate and in the field, but they've managed to show glimpses of the potential that their coach knows they have. "We've got some talent out there," Jones said. "We just have a hard time pulling all that talent together, and we always seem to hang our heads once we dig ourselves into a hole." That hole came in the first inning, when a pair of errors in the infield turned into four runs, including a three-run bomb over the left-field fence by Ashton Brice that gave the Saints a 4-0 lead just moments into the game. ...more

February 23, 2008

Terriers Chew Up Green Dragons MOORE HAVEN — Maribel Garza scored on a fielder's choice to give the visiting Green Dragons a two-run advantage, but the Moore Haven Terriers responded with a flurry of runs over the next four innings to pummel Lake Placid 12-2 in the 10-run mercy-rule, five-inning affair. ...more

February 22, 2008

SEMINOLE - Almost three years to the day after professional bass fisherman Byron Velvick proposed to her on ABC's "The Bachelor," Mary Delgado was arrested on charges she punched him in mouth Tuesday night, causing his lip to bleed. ...more

November 23, 2007