When the city council recently approved an electrified security fence at a Nebraska Avenue tire shop, the decision set off alarm bells. ...more

November 4, 2009

Barry Holzsweig is trying to save the environment, reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil and make a few bucks, all by selling a device he calls the "Fuel Genie" for $499 apiece out of a converted tire shop on U.S. 19. ...more

February 13, 2009

Payne Park is the newest site being considered for a possible baseball stadium as local officials continue efforts to get the Red Sox to move their spring training operations here. ...more

August 15, 2008

Deputies have arrested a man who they say sold marijuana and pills out of his Lakeland tire shop. ...more

July 21, 2008

SEBRING — No-nonsense and fair dealing has always been the mantra of Yarbrough Tire, and Danny Yarbrough hasn't let the hard work of his father and grandfather in building one of the oldest and most respected businesses in Highlands County go by the wayside. Danny was eight-years-old when his father Floyd bought the business from his father and changed the name to Yarbrough Tire, watching his father work non-stop as a hardware salesman and in the tire shop. ...more

May 18, 2008

The war over Ward Street has ended. A portion of the road between Kennedy Boulevard and Cleveland Street will be closed when Porter Development redevelops the Brazzeal Goodyear Tire shop into a four-story office and retail project that will include a Publix grocery store and fitness center. ...more

November 17, 2007

Nearly 200 Beacon Woods residents packed the county's hearing room in New Port Richey on Thursday to oppose two projects many feared would lower their property values and damage their quality of life. ...more

September 14, 2007