The wound is eight months old, but the pain of losing to the Sarasota Booker Tornadoes twice in less than a week that ended the season for the Sebring girl's basketball team is still as fresh as it was then. ...more

November 11, 2008

Connor Bauer ran to a second-place finish and the Sebring boys and girls cross country teams qualified for regionals together for the first time in more than five years on Thursday at the Class 2A-District 5 meet at Lake Park. The Sebring boys finished sixth with 157 points, while the Blue Streak girls finished fifth with 144 points to send both teams to the Region 3 race on Nov. 14 at Estero Community Park. ...more

November 6, 2008

The inaugural Sebring Chamber of Commerce Run For Business 5k run/walk couldn't have gone any better. ...more

September 22, 2008

SEBRING — The pickup truck backed up, the gate swung open, and three hogs were released from a trailer. One by one, they cross the scales. "Two hundred and thirty-eight pounds," came a voice from inside the livestock barn. Whoops went up. Anthony Hargaden smiled. "It was the pie!" shouted his mother, Allison Hargaden. Indeed, it was two pies, and a bottle of water. ...more

February 10, 2008

By October 2005, Ed and Maxine Kolbe were tired of simply watching American men and women fight a war on the other side of the world. ...more

January 2, 2008

A Brookridge couple has mailed 1,000 care packages to troops overseas. They don't plan to stop anytime soon. ...more

December 27, 2007

An Apollo Beach church's trailer filled with Thanksgiving food for the poor has been stolen. ...more

November 14, 2007

An Apollo Beach church's trailer filled with Thanksgiving food for the needy has been stolen. The trailer was taken sometime between Sunday afternoon and this morning from Calvary Lutheran Church's satellite property in the Ruskin area. A broken lock was found on the property. ...more

November 13, 2007

ESTERO –– Despite having to compete in the Class 2A-Region 3 cross-country meet while the sun was rising early Friday morning, Sebring's Connor Bauer qualified for next Saturday's state meet in Dade City. Bauer, a fleet-footed sophomore, managed to run the hilly Park Community course in a time of 17 minutes, 13 seconds, which was good for ninth place in a very competitive regional that included numerous private schools. "That's a very good showing for Connor," said Blue Streak coach Jeff Shoemaker. "It was a good course, but it was hilly and the corners were very tight, which didn't favor Connor's upright style of running. "I'm really pleased with his effort, because he stayed focused, had a strong last half-mile and made up a lot of ground on the leaders." The regional meet featured 12 teams, with the top six teams and top 15 individuals qualifying for next Saturday's state meet in Dade City. ...more

November 10, 2007

SEBRING — Hopefully, the girls on the Sebring cross-country team are early risers. They'll need to be if they want to qualify for next week's state finals, as today's Class 2A-Region 3 competition at Estero Community Park in Fort Myers begins at 7:30 a.m. "That's awfully early to run and I've never seen anything like it," said Blue Streak coach Jeff Shoemaker. "That's all right, though, because the girls have trained hard and will be ready to go." ...more

November 9, 2007