Parents of Westchase Elementary School fourth-graders are rallying around a pair of teachers whose lesson was criticized by a grandmother as condoning drug use. ...more

February 11, 2010

Parents of Westchase Elementary School fourth-graders are rallying around a pair of teachers whose lesson was criticized by a grandmother as condoning the use of drugs. ...more

February 10, 2010

What two Westchase Elementary fourth-grade teachers apparently thought was a creative way to calm students about to take the FCAT made at least one caregiver fear the teachers were sending a different message - that taking drugs while under stress is OK. ...more

February 9, 2010

Your editorial in last Sunday's paper, "Return common sense to class-size reduction" (Our Opinion), is to be commended, but it could have been more forceful. The combination of requiring many more teachers to satisfy the smaller class-size requirements while the country experiences an acute teacher shortage must result in acquiring more teachers of lesser ability. Although that will increase dues-paying members for the teachers' unions, it will lower the quality of teaching children. ...more

February 4, 2010

Name of Business: Highlands Academy LLC Location: 449 Park St., Sebring ...more

January 3, 2010

It seems each year a growing number of people are downplaying the importance of Santa Claus. ...more

December 24, 2009

Just like the once-thriving citrus industry, the annual Tangerine Time New Year's Eve celebration could be a thing of the past as organizers announce they are canceling the event. ...more

December 13, 2009

Socialism and communism have been slithering across these fruited plains, like some dark and evil plague. Their poisonous progress has accelerated wildly under the current administration. ...more

November 7, 2009

Kasey Lynch brought along a bit of improvisational experience when he joined Woodland Elementary School's Drumming for Dreams program. ...more

October 25, 2009

Walk On By This is a rebuttal to the letter entitled "Teaching Children to Beg." ...more

August 12, 2008