Maybe it's curiosity. Or worry. Or both. A Web site launched by the White House last month to allow citizens to keep track of where stimulus dollars are going is getting 3,000 hits per second and already has registered more than 150 million hits altogether. ...more

March 7, 2009

Golfers and volunteers braved Saturday's blustery conditions to participate in Lake Placid High School's Project Graduation golf scramble at Placid Lakes Country Club. ...more

February 4, 2009

University of South Florida RBs Mike Ford and Jamar Taylor, who didn't make the trip to Cincinnati, both participated in individual drills Monday. ...more

November 11, 2008

I am responding to the letter to the editor titled "Grimming Is Unknown" by Steve Ellis. In this letter he refers to Grimming as an "outsider" and Benton as "one of us." I am sick to death of hearing this kind of rhetoric from people. ...more

October 24, 2008

Since 99.9 percent of the pro-Ron Grimming for sheriff letters come from Lake Placid, I think the fine folks there ought to elect him as their next police chief and let the rest of us in Highlands County tend to the business of re-electing Susan Benton as sheriff. We know what we have in Sheriff Benton. She is one of us. She worked her way through the sheriff's department, she has lived in this community for many years, raised her family in this community, buried her husband Jim in this community and in every decision she makes as sheriff, it is with the best interests of this community in mind. On the other hand, who is Ron Grimming? Him visiting his parents in Lake Placid once a year for 25 years doesn't exactly make him an old friend. He's an outsider; all we know about him comes from quotes from his friends or the local Republican Party headquarters. ...more

October 20, 2008

A bye week is just what Mickey Andrews and his Florida State defense need. And it's not just the opportunity to heal from five weeks of pounding. ...more

October 6, 2008

The Internal Revenue Service paid a contractor $188,000 to provide one person to do clerical work over 11 months. ...more

December 21, 2007