LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is realizing savings through a sewing program. ...more

March 12, 2009

Inmates are being kept in stitches through a sewing program the Pasco Sheriff's Office has started. The program teaches prisoners a vocational skill while cutting costs at the jails by patching mattresses and other items, according to a press release today from Tim Couet, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office. ...more

March 5, 2009

Highlands County Administrator Michael Wright said he will answer questions raised at Tuesday's county commission meeting about the county's dumping of fill material on a private property in late 2007. ...more

January 7, 2009

SEBRING — The first asphalt plant owned and operated by a local government in Florida's history is under construction at the Highlands County Waste Management's 1,000-acre landfill. Ken Wheeler, director of the county's solid waste management department, said the plant should go into production by late June or early July. Asphalt paving costs are expected to be reduced between 10 to 20 percent at the plant, which will also add several forms of recycling to Highlands County's waste disposal system. First, methane gas, produced by garbage decomposing underground at the landfill, will no longer be burned off by flares. Instead, the gas will be used as the fuel to run the asphalt plant. ...more

June 10, 2008