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Budget To Be Debated At Tuesday Meeting

Discussion of the budget will likely dominate Tuesday's county commission meeting. ...more

June 29, 2008

DPW Consultant Seeks $85,790 For Cleanup

WOULD ALLOW COUNTY TO MOVE AHEAD WITH EFFORT ...more

June 22, 2008

Agri-Civic To Be Renamed For 2 Highlands Ag Pioneers

SEBRING —Two of Highlands County's early agricultural pioneers in the citrus industry will have their names names written posthumously on the outside and inside of the Agri-Civic Center on George Boulevard. The old Highlands County Agri-Civic Center will be renamed the Bert J. Harris, Jr. Agricultural Center, if county Commissioner Don Bates' motion is approved at today's county commission meeting. In the same motion, expected to pass unanimously with no opposition, the commissioners also will rename the auditorium inside the Bert J. Harris, Jr. Agricultural Center the Sam Poltson Memorial Museum. The auditorium is the main meeting ...more

June 16, 2008

Depositions Set For Instant Messaging Appeal

SEBRING — The formal legal process for the appeals of two county employees for exchanging inappropriate and often sexually explicit instant-messages will begin in six days, on Monday. Jim McCollum, the attorney for ex-county employees Jared Lee and Treasa Handley, will take sworn statements, recorded verbatim by a legal stenographer, from four people, starting at 9 a.m. in a conference room at the Highlands County Government Center. Handley and Lee were dismissed more than five months ago for sending thousands of personal instant messages to each other, and others, on their county computers during working hours. Many of the messages were sexually explicit, and all of them are public record, accessible to anyone, with a request to either the county's public information officer or the Highlands County Clerk of Courts office. ...more

June 16, 2008

Fire Ballot Wording Back Before County

SOLID WASTE WORKSHOP ALSO ON TUESDAY AGENDA ...more

June 15, 2008

RV-Housing Resort Proposed For Eastside

One month after a controversial RV resort in Hernando Beach was pulled from a Land Use Hearing Agenda, a similar proposal finds its way back on - this time from a different developer and more than 30 miles eastward. ...more

June 10, 2008