Dixie Youth Baseball is developing a five-year plan for improvements to the city's Max Long Field Complex, the first phase of which is to resurface fields 2 and 4, which are the smaller fields, to improve drainage. ...more

November 20, 2009

The high school football playoffs start tonight, and, alas, the three Highlands County teams are making other plans. In the end, Sebring couldn't win The Big Game(s), Lake Placid coalesced too late and Avon Park, playing out an athletic director's ultimate nightmare, faced four top-10 teams in five weeks. ...more

November 20, 2009

When Debra Schriber wants to buy Christmas toys for her two grandchildren, she makes the one-hour drive from Okeechobee to the Kmart store in Lakeshore Mall, selects what she wants and puts them on layaway with the store. ...more

November 20, 2009

It is a known fact that World War II made an end to the Great Depression. ...more

November 20, 2009

Cleveland Nobles got the call Friday afternoon, just hours before his final football game of the season. ...more

November 19, 2009

By a 4-1 vote, former Highlands County Development Services Director James M. "Jim" Polatty Jr., was appointed by the Sebring City Council and will start work on Monday, Nov. 23 as the city's new planning and zoning director. ...more

November 19, 2009

Careless down the stretch, the Sebring boys basketball team squandered a 10-point fourth-quarter lead during a 58-55 loss to Clewiston in the Bill Jarrett Tip-Off opener on Tuesday night. ...more

November 19, 2009

Wow! Who says there is nothing to do in the Heartland? Last week was a busy week. First we started out with the Florida Flywheeler's 14th annual fall fuel up. Then there are not enough words to praise the Highlands Little Theatre's production of "Fiddler on the Roof," it was just terrific. ...more

November 19, 2009

A Sebring man remained in the Highlands County Jail Wednesday under no bond following his arrest for allegedly assaulting his brother's girlfriend and snatching her cell phone. ...more

November 19, 2009

Thank you Mr. Doty, I've not read a funnier letter to the editor in quite some time. Let's first deal with your idea of liberalism equals socialism. True both ideologies believe everyone should have a say in how both the economy and government works. Its true democracy! Now communism is opposite to that idea. It wants control in fewer hands; just like conservatism, which is the idea Republicans want. ...more

November 17, 2009