On the morning of Aug. 18, the busy intersection of Memorial Drive and Valerie Boulevard will become more crowded than ever as about 560 students travel to the new Memorial Elementary School about a half mile away. ...more

July 27, 2008

Grace Academy, a ministry of Sunridge Baptist Church, announces a benefit fundraiser yard sale Saturday, July 12 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...more

July 9, 2008

On June 19, my husband went into Florida Hospital Lake Placid for a routine appendectomy. The surgery went fine, but two days later he came down with shortness of breath and we soon learned he had a pulmonary embolism. The fear we all felt was unexplainable. ...more

July 3, 2008

County officials are celebrating the decision by an aerospace manufacturing firm to relocate to the Airport Corporate Park. ...more

June 25, 2008

The new Memorial Drive school is nearing completion and will open in August. A traffic light will be installed at Memorial Drive and Valerie Boulevard, but I have not heard of any plans to install sidewalks in the vicinity of the new school. Sidewalks for the children who walk to the new school should be a top priority. The very minimum requirements should be sidewalks on Manatee Drive from Valerie Boulevard to Memorial, and on Memorial Drive from Valerie Boulevard to the new school. The safety of the children should have top priority. ...more

June 2, 2008

SEBRING — The busy intersection of Memorial Drive and Valerie Boulevard will be further improved for safety by adding a traffic signal and three turning lanes. The intersection, north of Sebring and south of Avon Park, is now a four-way stop. Highlands County Engineer Ramon Gavarrete said a traffic-crash problem at Memorial and Valerie was solved last year when traffic control there was upgraded from a two-way stop to a four-way stop. Now, Gavarrete said, a traffic signal is needed because traffic volume is expected to increase greatly when the new Memorial Drive Elementary School opens in late August. ...more

May 24, 2008

Valerie Iengo of Port Richey says the nation's economic problems are severe, contradicting Ernest Lane's letter "No Crisis." ...more

January 29, 2008

Police think the three people mauled by a tiger yelled and waved at the cat from atop a railing before it lunged at them, but experts say that's only a notch up from the type of taunting animals regularly endure at the nation's zoos. ...more

January 19, 2008

SEBRING — Two Hardee County men were airlifted to Tampa General Hospital after an early morning crash Wednesday, when a Ford SUV flipped about 1,000 feet north of Valerie Boulevard on U.S. 27. ...more

January 9, 2008

A fledgling pharmaceutical company hopes to help thousands of women detect ovarian cancer, a disease that kills more than 15,000 women a year. ...more

December 4, 2007