If your holiday shopping this season finds you in a bookstore, ask for the section on presidential history. You'll find literally hundreds of works of presidential history. ...more

December 19, 2007

SEBRING — An oversight by school district and support personnel negotiators will require another bargaining session to work out details on incentive pay. As the school board was about to approve the support union employment contract recently it was pointed out that a small portion of the contract was not in the agreement the employees ratified Dec. 2. The language concerned job incentive pay for employees with two- or four-year college degrees. "That poses for us a potential problem," said Sam Lee, negotiator for the school district. "It is my opinion that should the board adopt page 21 ... you in all probability will have committed an unfair labor practice," because it was not included in the contract ratified by the employees. ...more

December 16, 2007

Although some health experts claim that organic produce is more nutritious than conventional, most scientists aren't sure. ...more

November 23, 2007

The dream of many, for the city to purchase waterfront property on Alt. 19 at Pershing Street to be preserved as a park, may not be as costly as first envisioned. Florida Communities Trust recently awarded the city $4.515 million as its share of a matching grant to purchase the property in two phases. ...more

November 10, 2007

One of the reasons for the stock market nosedive on Nov. 1 was the price of oil. ...more

November 5, 2007

It's not every day a city gets a prime piece of park property donated to it at the entrance to its downtown. Last week, the City Commission thanked Tarpon Springs-based contractor and developer Joseph Kokolakis for purchasing and then donating to the city a large portion of the green space, referred to as SunTrust Bank Park. ...more

October 13, 2007

LAKE PLACID — The cause of death of an 8-month-old girl on Aug. 13 was morphine intoxication, according to Highlands County Sheriff's Det. Bob Neale, referring to a report from the District 10 Medical Examiner's Office. ...more

September 6, 2007