It is with great pleasure and hope for the future that I report that our seventh TAD Congress was a huge success. And, as you may know, TAD stands for The American Dream. ...more

July 9, 2008

The city will seek conventional means to finance the parking garage and land for an arts and education center in its 20.36-acre redevelopment area south of Bullard Parkway and east of Busch Boulevard. ...more

July 2, 2008

Vehicle retailer CarMax said Tuesday that it plans to open new stores and expand even amid a difficult economic environment and rising gas prices. ...more

June 25, 2008

U.S. consumers are the gloomiest they've been since the tail end of the last prolonged recession. Inflation, sinking home values and soaring gasoline prices have pushed confidence to the lowest level since 1992. Consumers' view of the economic future has never been lower, raising worries that already weak consumer spending could deteriorate further. ...more

June 25, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A man working at a construction site was arrested this week in connection with a bank robbery in Seminole in October. ...more

June 19, 2008

SEBRING – There seems to be quite a bit of commercial office space available in the area, but not at the refurbished Wachovia Bank building in Sebring. Nearly all of the space in the 32,840 square-foot building located next to Burger King has been leased. That's good news for Jimmy and Jeri Wohl and Martha and David Hatch. The couples, who are partners in 3200 Properties LLC, took ownership of the building last August. "We're just real happy to be about full not even a year into ownership," David Hatch said. The two couples have spent several thousand dollars on the building, which was built in 1998 by Thomas Wohl and had damage on the third and fourth floors from Hurricane Charley in 2004. ...more

June 14, 2008

Students from Metropolitan Ministries Academy and Rampello Downtown Partnership School participated in recent photography workshops. ...more

June 14, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $11,000 bond, after he was arrested, accused of paying Duck's Body Shop with bad checks to get his car back, as well as ABC Appliance for merchandise there. Raymond "Ray" Paul Hartley, 24, of 306 Swallow Ave., was booked Wednesday on charges of grand theft $300 or more but less than $5,000 and two counts of fraud - insufficient funds – obtaining goods or services in return for a worthless check $150 or more. His bond was set at $8,000 on those charges. ...more

June 13, 2008