Barry Holzsweig is trying to save the environment, reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil and make a few bucks, all by selling a device he calls the "Fuel Genie" for $499 apiece out of a converted tire shop on U.S. 19. ...more

February 13, 2009

SEBRING — Although he feared otherwise, Heartland Idol host Don Elwell will remain in Highlands County. The former hotel manager at Kenilworth Lodge will now work at Alan Jay Nissan as business/finance manager. Elwell said he wrote his job "out of the Kenilworth budget" and although he actively considered a move to several other Florida counties, he is glad to live in Highlands County and still work in the "people business." ...more

May 23, 2008

The noise came suddenly from beneath my Jeep, a grinding, high-pitched squeal that fit somewhere between fingernails raked across a chalk board and the angry utterance of a 2-year-old denied his will. ...more

November 10, 2007

For years, Peter Meinke had been stopping in to shop at Haslam's Book Store. One day, a high-powered New York editor overheard the owners' son, who clerks at the store, say Peter Meinke was due in. ...more

October 12, 2007