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June 12, 2008

SEBRING – The search for an executive director for Florida's Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative will contine Monday, June 2 when the selection committee meets in Sebring. Six candidates for the position are scheduled to be interviewed, according to Roger Hood, who is a member of the committee. The FHREDI board of directors' regular meeting will be held Monday, June 16 at the Agri-Civic Center in Sebring. A recommendation will likely be made from the committee to the board at that time. Following the retirement of Lynn Topel earlier this year, the board advertised the position. The committee chose three candidates to be interviewed and offered the position to the top two, but both declined. Salary might have been an issue with those two individuals, according to Hood, who is also a member of the board. ...more

May 31, 2008

Men's Fitness magazine named Fowler White Boggs Banker, a Florida-based law firm, as one of the 15 fittest American companies. ...more

February 15, 2008

AVON PARK — An additional 20 to 25 workers will be unemployed by Jan. 31 as Cargill Juice North America exits the citrus processing business in Florida. The company announced plans in August to close the Avon Park and Frostproof plants. "It's interesting," said Tom Abrahamson, president. "When we decided to shut down the plants for good, we said at the time that we still had inventories of juice, and we estimated they would last until December 2008." ...more

December 23, 2007

SEBRING — When Howard Jenkins retired from the Air Force, he used his veteran benefits to go back to school and improve himself. From his experience, he saw the shortcomings of the military and wanted to help others. After starting as a veterans representative in Winter Haven, he transferred to Sebring in 1992 as a local veteran employment representative for Heartland Workforce. Jenkins enjoys helping the young, returning troops, showing them how to apply and get their earned benefits under the GI bill. ...more

December 17, 2007

The Pasco County school district has more than 60,000 students and counting, and building classrooms is a constant process. It might seem a little misguided, then, that the school board is entertaining the possibility of also getting into the residential housing business, but it's not. ...more

December 15, 2007

SEBRING — Highlands County commissioners need to find one more person, with the right credentials, to appoint a state-mandated citizens advisory committee on affordable workforce housing. At stake is the county's ability to keep receiving about $900,000 per year in state funding for housing assistance programs. Ten of the 11 seats on the committee have been tentatively filled, but commissioners are waiting to appoint the committee until the 11th position is filled. That person must be a county resident "who is actively engaged as a for-profit provider of affordable housing," according to state law. "Generally, that would be a contractor or a developer," said Jim Polatty, the county's development director. ...more

December 1, 2007

Ron Sharitz's applied technology applications class prepares Riverview High students to enter the workforce as they create projects that generate revenue. ...more

November 14, 2007

TAMPA - Workers in the Tampa Bay area were a bit happier last month but ranked dead last among the listed cities in job confidence and satisfaction, according to a survey released this week. ...more

November 1, 2007

all 77 million of them - will come into their retirement years. In doing so, they will transform every aspect of American society. ...more

October 15, 2007