Fifth generation Floridian Susan Staton, a certified dance instructor for 15 years, has prepared 10 local couples who had never danced before to showcase their talents at a 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 fundraiser, Dancing With the Locals, at the Red Rose Ballroom. Noon Rotary has tapped Staton's talent for the past two years for this event. ...more

October 28, 2009

Fifth generation Floridian Susan Staton, a certified dance instructor for 15 years, began dancing at age 3. She's been at the Red Rose Inn and Suites for four years, teaching ballroom and Latin dance to all ages, in group and private lessons. Noon Rotary tapped into her talent for the last two years for its annual fundraiser, Dancing with the Locals. She has taught 10 local couples who have never danced before and they will showcase their talents at the 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 fundraiser at the Red Rose Ballroom. ...more

October 27, 2009

Senate President Jeff Atwater will run for Chief Financial Officer. ...more

May 15, 2009

SEBRING Nothing, not even walking pneumonia, was going to keep John Dillashaw from making the annual 12 Hours of Sebring. ...more

March 21, 2009

BARTOW (AP) - U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam would rather be in Florida. Joined by friends and family Thursday in his Bartow hometown, the 34-year-old former state legislator and five-term Republican congressman formally announced his plans to run for Florida agriculture commissioner. ...more

February 20, 2009

As the gray, wet and windswept dawn began to light this small fishing village on the Gulf of Mexico, Martha Hutcheson slogged through about 6 inches of water near downtown. ...more

August 19, 2008

Commissioner District 3 (Republican) Republican Matt Matey, candidate for County Commission District 3, will run against the incumbent, Ann Hildebrand, and challenger Wil Nickerson in the Aug. 26 GOP primary. ...more

August 16, 2008

Fred Rothenbush sat at the easel in his home in Ruskin one recent morning, applying finishing touches to a large canvas depicting a military scene. ...more

February 20, 2008

SEBRING — Two Highlands County commissioners, Don Bates and Guy Maxcy, launched negotiations through a designated county spokesman to obtain one acre of prime, white-sand-beach lakefront on troubled Lake Denton. Maxcy and Bates asked Ken Melvin, one of the seven people on the commissioner-appointed Lake Denton Citizens Advisory Committee, to informally negotiate the county's obtaining that one-acre of Lake Denton lakefront with the president and CEO of a fifth-generation Highlands County citrus/ranch family. ...more

January 10, 2008

He billed himself as the radical Cracker. Others called him everything from a gentle soul to a hot-tempered troubadour. ...more

December 20, 2007