State to close Causeway Boulevard west of U.S. 41 for repaving. ...more

June 12, 2008

People with disabilities might soon be catching taxis instead of specially equipped vans and buses. ...more

May 27, 2008

Instead of packing it in, PACK is hoping businesses and individual donors will make up for the loss of a $50,000 state grant for an annual summer camp for youths with disabilities. ...more

May 13, 2008

Instead of packing it in, PACK is hoping businesses and individual donors will help make up for the loss of a $50,000 state grant for an annual summer camp for youths with disabilities. ...more

May 10, 2008

Pam Moody has assembled a colorful palette of local artists to display and sell their works at The Creative Native Gallery. ...more

May 2, 2008

SEBRING – There will be 23 entries in the Highlands County Builders Association Spring 2008 Parade of Homes. The event will run from Feb. 22 through March 2. Homes will be open from noon – 5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 – 5 p.m. Sundays. The participants include: J & J Parker Enterprises, Trinity Development, Chapman's Construction, Pathfinder Consultants, Upland Homes, Spires Construction, Heartland Family Homes, Lomomico Contracting, HCBA, Sebring Builders, Carter Construction, Sun State Homes, Walz & Company, Hornick Homes, T.E. James Custom Homes, J.E. Futch Custom Homes and Poe Builders ...more

February 17, 2008

SEBRING — In the 1960s, Virginia Neel worked behind the front counter at Sebring's first public library, and soon she will be working in the same exact site –– this time as the president of Highlands County Genealogical Society. Members of the genealogical society will be manning the front desk of the renovated downtown Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce office in exchange for storage space for the genealogy books. Neel said she thought of the idea one night when she couldn't sleep. "I had been in another welcome center with a genealogical society office, and it was very convenient," Neel said. "I knew this building had been a library, so there is plenty of space, and it just worked out perfectly." ...more

January 29, 2008

Court TV, which has increased its audience every quarter for the past two years, changes its name Tuesday to TruTV. ...more

December 30, 2007

Doctors are seeing large increases in the number of current and former football players either addicted to or physically dependent on painkillers. ...more

December 28, 2007

Sportscaster JP Peterson and the management of WFLA, Channel 8, have mutually agreed to part ways. ...more

December 21, 2007