The Department of Community Affairs and the Department of state were invited to the Sunset Review Committee to answer questions, according to State Rep. Denise Grimsley. ...more

March 28, 2009

Perry Mason threw a complete-game three-hitter on Monday to lead the Lake Placid baseball team to a 3-1 victory over Hardee in Green Dragon coach Dan Coomes' first regular-season win over the Wildcats in five years at the helm. ...more

March 25, 2009

Kyle Barber went 3-for-4 with four RBI and pitcher CW Vaught allowed three runs in five innings to lead Lake Placid past Clewiston by a score of 9-4 in high school baseball on Thursday night. ...more

March 21, 2009

Friday's Highlands Today editorial "Obama must stand up to his own party on budget," I believe, misrepresents the entire budget process and wrongly leaves the impression that it is the Democrats who did most of the wasteful spending. ...more

March 19, 2009

SOFTALL: Sebring 7, DeSoto 1 SEBRING - Sebring got back on the winning track by beating DeSoto by a score of 7-2 in a Class 4A-District 10 softball game on Monday night. ...more

March 18, 2009

The Avon Park baseball team rallied from five runs down in the fifth inning on Thursday to pick up its first district victory of the season with an 8-5 win over DeSoto. ...more

March 14, 2009

The man charged with killing Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Nicholas Sottile pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder, three days before jury selection was to begin in his trial. ...more

March 13, 2009

Our economy is collapsing around us. We have a spend-thrift, empty suit lawyer in the White House who doesn't have a clue how to fix anything except throw money. Nancy is running the show racking up deficits beyond anyone's imagination with a congress whose religion and ticket to heaven is pork. As the country gallops full tilt to socialism, Highlands Today sees fit to pick on Rush Limbaugh in a full blown editorial piece because he says "whacky" things. Politically, you can agree or disagree with Rush. However, the man should not be demonized because he disagrees with the way our country is being run. Most of his severe critics, and probably you as well, have never listened to Rush, for if you had, you would know he is anything but "whacky." Rush is a Reagan conservative and the Republicans need more like him. ...more

March 13, 2009

Austin Gaines smacked a three-run home run in the third inning, but that was all the offense the South Florida Community College baseball team could muster on Wednesday as St. Petersburg College got behind unearned runs early and cruised to a 9-3 Suncoast Conference victory. ...more

March 13, 2009

This is in reference to the story that ran Sunday in Highlands Today regarding the Highlands County school budget. I disagree with this teacher, Roberta Peck. Teachers work very hard for their salaries and they deserve every penny they have earned. ...more

March 11, 2009