A controversial road plan is on hold, and some of the projects that received the most objections have been whittled away, but that didn't stop about 300 people from packing the Riverview High School cafeteria last week to sound off about it. ...more

October 31, 2007

A controversial road plan is on hold, and some of the projects that received the most objections have been whittled away, but that didn't stop about 300 people from packing the Riverview High School cafeteria last week to sound off about it. ...more

October 29, 2007

Avon Park is making history this week as the city will hold early voting for the first time for local offices. To mark the occasion, we hope that voters – and lots of them – will take advantage of the opportunity beginning Monday and continuing through Nov. 2. Voters can either go to Avon Park City Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, or request an absentee ballot through the Supervisor of Elections office. If requesting an absentee ballot, voters must do so by Wednesday to get it mailed to them, or they can have somebody pick it up for them if they ask for it afterward. ...more

October 28, 2007

It's too early to say whether the visit last week from presidential candidate Mitt Romney's son is the first of many stops through this part of Florida, but we hope so. ...more

September 30, 2007

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has been confirmed as a speaker for the annual Pasco Coujty Reagan Day Dinner here Friday night. ...more

September 10, 2007