The 35th annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In will run today through Sunday at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport with aerial performances and exhibits of aircraft and aviation equipment. ...more

April 21, 2009

The 35th Annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In will run Tuesday through Sunday at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport with aerial performances and exhibits of aircraft and aviation equipment. ...more

April 20, 2009

Isn't it great that the taxpayers of Sun n' Lake of Sebring are going to sue themselves (as taxpayers of Highlands County). The Sun 'n Lake board of supervisors (majority elected by NRPI) does not think that we, the people, understand how crucial the big landowners are to the success of Sun n' Lake. I recommend impeachment or recall but that can only be done, I suppose, by a vote of the landowners. Certainly the current board won't step down. They'd rather waste our taxes and assessments fighting a decision made by the same county government that originally established Sun n' Lake. And I feel the people will ultimately win but only after a long and expensive battle that only enriches the lawyers. ...more

April 19, 2009

At noon Saturday, Highlands County deputies were still looking for the suspects in an early-morning armed robbery. ...more

April 18, 2009

I am an angry, loyal Publix shopper and have shopped there for over 40 years. I learned about the closing of the Avon Park store in the newspaper, and a Publix spokesperson confirmed this. Part of her rationale for closing the store is that "it doesn't make sense to have two stores only four and a half miles apart." Sebring now has two stores about five miles apart, Lake Wales has two stores about five miles apart and Winter Haven has two stores about five miles apart. Avon Park shoppers who are accustomed to running by their neighborhood Publix to pick up a gallon of milk or a box of fried chicken, on their way home from work, will now have to buy their goods at Winn-Dixie or Wal-Mart, neither of whom carries products of the same quality as Publix's goods; or they can drive all the way to Sebring. ...more

April 18, 2009

In May, The Florida Aquarium introduces a brand new, larger catamaran with three times the capacity for the popular Wild Dolphin Ecotours. This ship, specially made for the aquarium, is 72 feet long and 27 feet wide with two decks and holds 149 passengers. ...more

April 8, 2009

A Highlands County grand jury returned an indictment of first-degree murder Tuesday afternoon for a suspect charged with the death of a Lake Placid man. ...more

April 8, 2009

A crowd of about 100 people stood up and cheered the Highlands County commissioners Tuesday morning when they voted unanimously to change the voting rules at the Sun 'n Lake special district. ...more

April 7, 2009

TBO.com: This morning's anthrax scare, which started at Florida Hospital Heartland Division, has spread to at least 30 locations, according to Highlands County Sheriff Susan Benton. Deputies are talking to several people now in connection with this case. ...more

April 2, 2009

Columnist Bob Black is angered by WCI and wants to save the golf courses in Sun City Center. ...more

April 1, 2009