I'm very perturbed for several reasons by the article in Friday's Hernando Today (June 25) regarding Jeff Stabins' acceptance of a $250 contribution from Lauralee Westine, attorney for the cell phone industry. ...more

July 27, 2008

Shades Of H.G. Wells Methinks Patrick Miketinac has to set the dial in his time machine to 2008 and come to visit us here in the real world. No matter how much you wring your hands or pull at your silver locks, we aren't anytime soon going back on the gold standard. Let's be realistic. I never said we could drill our way out of this, though I'm pretty sure we "not-drilled" our way into it. What would the Middle East look like today had we not been pouring our national wealth in their pockets for more than 30 years? Did you ever see "Lawrence of Arabia?" Now that's nostalgia! ...more

July 25, 2008

So that's why the ice cream man is in such a good humor. Deputies say they cited the driver of the Hokey Pokey ice cream truck Thursday for possession of marijuana and a drug-smoking pipe. ...more

July 19, 2008

Deputies arrested the driver of the Hokey Pokey ice cream truck Thursday on a possession of marijuana charge. ...more

July 18, 2008

A Sebring woman was arrested as the third suspect in the alleged robbery of a Sebring man on June 23 on Martin Luther King Boulevard, near Cemetery Road, in Sebring. ...more

July 11, 2008

In his previous letters, Dallas Dunlop wrote that there were no significant oil deposits in the Baltimore Canyon or anywhere else off shore for that matter. Now his mystical geological sources are telling him personally that there are no oil deposits in the eastern gulf either. ...more

July 8, 2008

Here we go again. Seaside Sanitation is looking for another raise. They just got one a little while back. With their threat, they would stop collections unless they get the increase ...more

July 6, 2008

SEBRING – A Sebring woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $111,000 bond and a 16-year-old Sebring boy was turned over to the care of the Department of Juvenile Justice in Bartow after they were arrested in connection with a robbery Monday evening on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Sharome Shurphybellamy Foster, 20, of 412 Vicki Terrace, was charged with robbery no firearm or weapon and resisting a law enforcement officer without violence. The 16-year-old Sebring High School student was charged with robbery only. It was about 7 p.m. Monday when sheriff's deputies say Foster drove the 16-year-old and an unnamed suspect to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Cemetery Road where the teenager and unnamed suspect reportedly got out of the car and robbed the 34-year-old male victim of his cell phone. The telephone was valued at $39. ...more

June 26, 2008

City residents will have to dig a little deeper into their pockets this year to keep Pasco County's most populous city illuminated at night. ...more

June 4, 2008

Milikije Arifi has lived in Switzerland for more than 30 years, since she was 18, and raised a family here. ...more

June 1, 2008