Ah, the splendor of firing up that huge new HDTV you got for the holidays, or that spiffy new game console or cell phone. ...more

January 5, 2008

SEBRING — The steady 2 percent student enrollment growth in Highlands County during the past six years has come to a screeching halt. ...more

January 2, 2008

Loss Of Tranquility For the past few years our holidays have been ruined by pounding, loud music in the neighborhood. I've telephoned the police but was told by a deputy their hands are tied because they have no decibel meters. Apparently, Pasco County gave the decibel meters to Code Enforcement, which, by the way, closes at 5 every evening and is closed on the weekend. ...more

December 31, 2007

The years they come, and the years they go, but it's unlikely we soon shall see another year like the one just concluded, the amazing, astounding and genuinely history making twenty-ought-eight. ...more

December 30, 2007

LARGO - Sixty-seven inmates displaced by the storm that ravaged the Land O' Lakes Jail in Pasco County arrived today for a stay at the Pinellas County Jail. They could be in Pinellas for up to two months. ...more

December 19, 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

AVON PARK — Three weeks after the Boys and Girls Club's Avon Park branch opened at Memorial Field, the club is still getting a second portable ready, and is working on a deck to connect its two trailers. But membership has already shot up well beyond what Executive Director Wally Randall predicted. The branch's new location has 74 members, and 65 children can be found either studying or screaming, racing and playing around the two portables on any given weekday after school. That's slightly more than the number of kids at the club's main branch in Sebring. "We were expecting 40. On the first day, close to 60 showed up," Randall said. ...more

December 8, 2007

The Rays' winter meetings contingent headed for the airport around lunchtime Thursday after making one significant move this week and laying the groundwork for deals still to come. ...more

December 7, 2007

This year the University of South Florida women's basketball team enters a new era: A.D. ...more

November 4, 2007

Some don't mind the new growth; others abhor it. But all agree the county hasn't done enough to prepare for it. ...more

October 10, 2007