The tiny bicycle, complete with training wheels, fit 4-year-old Kelanda Smith perfectly. ...more

December 21, 2009

The Lake Placid community has lost a wonderful person with the death of Clifford H. Avery on Nov. 8. ...more

December 11, 2009

My husband and I went to see the movie "Blind Side" in Sebring. It was a must-see movie, a true story that shows love and compassion to a boy from the projects. You need Kleenex to watch it, but it has a good ending. ...more

December 11, 2009

Regarding your front-page article on new mammogram recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ("Anger and frustration," Nov. 18): ...more

November 23, 2009

I agree with Roy Dettwiler's letter published in your Nov.18 edition in that I also believe our country's current problems are largely spiritual. I've recently heard on the news that groups of activists: homosexual, pro-abortion or whoever they are this week, are protesting pro-life teaching or prayer breakfasts in the schools, or a cross on a teacher's wall due to a violation of "separation of church and state." ...more

November 23, 2009

On Nov. 18, my mother, Doris Bennett, passed away peacefully with me by her side. ...more

November 21, 2009

This nation has entered an era of arrogance unlike anything that has ever existed. It has loosened upon the earth every evil and every evil lie that exists in the world (Satan's domain.) With its democratic principles it has managed to undo all of the work that God had done since the fall of man and people are so corrupt that they think that this is great. It is "great" because each individual can have his or her own way and own self-devised view of God and reality. ...more

November 21, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - More than 700 people attended a formal flag ceremony Wednesday in celebration of Veterans Day at Rotary Concourse Pavilion off State Road 52 near the Suncoast Parkway. ...more

November 12, 2009

I was absolutely appalled when I read in Highlands Today that our county judges have the right to okay an abortion for a minor child without any knowledge of the abortion made to the child's parents. ...more

October 18, 2009

President Barack Obama flew to Denmark to make a bid to have the Olympics brought to Chicago. ...more

October 8, 2009