A seminar on how businesses should prepare if a disaster strikes the area will be held from 8 - 9 a.m. Thursday, June 25 at Heartland Workforce, 2730 U.S. 27 N., in Sebring. ...more

June 24, 2009

For 13 years, Kendall Duncan got up every morning and headed to Busch Gardens, where she and her friend Angie Frazier worked with lions, tigers and all sorts of other exotic animals. ...more

June 14, 2008

Free Seminar Planned On Starting Small Business SEBRING — The Small Business Development Center of the Heartland will present a free seminar titled "Steps To Start A Small Business." It will be held Wednesday, May 28 at the Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce Welcome Center, 227 U.S. 27 N., in Sebring from 2 to 4 p.m. The seminar will be taught by Bill McKown, certified business analyst with the SBDC. It is designed for persons thinking of starting a small business, or who have started a business, and want to make sure they did it correctly. Licenses, marketing and business plans are among the items discussed. ...more

May 24, 2008

SEBRING — The presentation of awards to two businesses and an international trade seminar will highlight the annual Highlands County Business Development Breakfast on Friday, May 23. The breakfast will begin at 7 a.m. at Inn on the Lakes, located at the corner of Golfview Road and U.S. 27., in Sebring. The Highlands County Start-Up Business Of The Year and the Highlands County Small Business Of The Year will be recognized during the event. ...more

May 18, 2008

SEBRING – As he was lugging a projector, flip-chart easel and books from a class for entrepreneurs at South Florida Community College to his car, Bill McKown was lamenting how it would be nice to have the classroom close by. McKown, a certified business analyst with the Small Business Development Center of the Heartland, said he was thinking about the convenience of being able to stay in one location and "not have to lug stuff around." "The logistics would be so much simpler," he said. McKown is lamenting no more, as he and Bob Raymond, who is also a certified business analyst at the center, will be moving their business counseling operation from the Heartland Workforce One-Stop Career Center in Sebring to the college's Avon Park campus next month. ...more

October 21, 2007

SEBRING – The University of South Florida's Small Business Development Center will start the next REAL (Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning) course on Sept. 24. The class will meet from 6 to 9 p.m. each Monday for 12 weeks at the South Florida Community College campus in Avon Park. Potential entrepreneurs as well as existing businesses can benefit from the course. The 12-week curriculum will include: market feasibility, target marketing, advertising, product mix, financial projections, start-up funding, vendor relationships and personnel ...more

September 2, 2007