AVON PARK — Stanley Wells was tempted – very tempted – to take the offer, but it was one he could and did refuse. Wells, the president of Wells Dodge Chrysler, said a woman from Idaho called the Avon Park dealership Monday about a limited edition 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 on display in the showroom. She had heard about the car and was willing to pay $100,000 – more than twice the list price. She wanted it that day. ...more

June 29, 2008

Christine Rideout has been patient. After three years on a waiting list, she was approved for a Habitat for Humanity house. She and her 18-year-old daughter Alexandra have put in hours of their own time hammering on other Habitat houses and framing their own. ...more

June 27, 2008

HABITAT PROJECT HIT BY THIEVES ...more

June 26, 2008

SEBRING – Born and raised in New York City, a former resident of Los Angeles and Sarasota is taking charge of the Highlands County Habitat for Humanity, and now calls Sebring his home. Mike Jacobson, 58, started work as the local Habitat's executive director following a three-year stint as both a volunteer and at a similar paid position in Sarasota. ...more

June 26, 2008

When Paxton Zachary Steier, 4, saw his new home for the first time at an East Pasco Habitat for Humanity home-dedication ceremony, he ran to sit at the center of the front porch and play, somehow knowing that he was at home. ...more

June 21, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- West Pasco Habitat for Humanity will recruit more volunteers this Saturday to its mission of helping build homes for lower-income residents who otherwise couldn't afford them. ...more

June 18, 2008

Highlands County Habitat for Humanity's loss is certainly a big gain for the DeSoto-Arcadia Habitat for Humanity. Jane Breylinger, a true believer in the monumental mission of eliminating substandard housing, is leaving her job as executive director of Highlands Habitat to take a similar job in DeSoto County. We hate to see her go, which is likely the sentiment others who are involved in Habitat have. Breylinger has done an an exceptional job and is apparently leaving Highlands Habitat in great shape. ...more

June 14, 2008

SEBRING — Jane Breylinger was a stay-at-home-mom who needed some "me time" with other adults when she first volunteered to hammer nails for Highlands County Habitat for Humanity. ...more

June 7, 2008

SEBRING — Habitat for Humanity has a new way to help the environment — recycling houses. Instead of demolishing one of the houses on Magnolia Street slated to eventually become a parking lot for county offices, they moved the house to a new location a few blocks away. "We took a house that was donated to us by the county to a piece of property donated to us by the city," said Jane Breylinger, executive director of Highlands County Habitat for Humanity. "It's was a good way for us all to work together." ...more

May 31, 2008

The foreclosure crisis that has forced thousands of families from their homes has given something good to the nation's best-known housing charity: cheap properties for sale in communities around the country. ...more

May 20, 2008