As a result of the tremendous success of the first Community Fun Series holiday cooking demonstration class held on Dec. 9 at the Quality Inn Conference Center in Sebring, the hotel management looks forward to the next free cooking demonstration class Monday, Jan. 4. ...more

January 3, 2010

After a trip to Disney World, Juan Hernandez, then 32 years old, had a plan. Move his family of five out of a heavily populated, crime-ridden community in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico to Avon Park for a better life. ...more

January 3, 2010

The January general membership meeting of the Lake Placid Board of Realtors will be held Wednesday, Jan. 6 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Elks Club. ...more

January 3, 2010

The community dream of additional end-of-life care services for residents of Highlands, Hardee and Polk counties will be one step closer when Good Shepherd Hospice holds a ground-breaking ceremony for its new Highlands County Hospice House on Jan. 7 at 10:30 a.m. in Sebring. ...more

January 2, 2010

Douglas Luther Shealy III didn't want to wait until Jan. 14, so he introduced himself to Highlands County a little more than two hours into 2010. ...more

January 2, 2010

Journalists may be the least paid of all professions. They make less money than cops, teachers, even social workers. ...more

January 2, 2010

In an upshot, if 2009 made us all a little poorer, it also made us all cleaner and more hygiene-oriented. It brought heartaches, joy and astonishment to Highlands County residents. It also brought closure to the family of a Florida Highway Patrol trooper ruthlessly killed while on duty. The economy continued to roil; residents endured not one but three anthrax hoaxes; ordinary residents prodded city hall into action in Venus and Sun 'n Lake, and swine flu got us all a little closer to sanitizers. ...more

January 1, 2010

Authorities arrested a man Tuesday they say broke into the same house once on Dec. 11 and again on Dec. 16. ...more

December 31, 2009

Since conservatives are scorching the paint off the walls denouncing the House and Senate health care bills, do they have an alternative? The libertarian Cato Institute advocates health savings accounts as a free market alternative. Newt Gingrich also advocates health savings accounts. ...more

December 31, 2009

The following people were booked Tuesday, Dec. 29 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

December 31, 2009