The Tanglewood Actors Guild (TAG) certainly appreciated the story about "Nunsense" by Joe Seelig in Highlands Today. The following did stellar work on "Nunsense:" director Joe Morano, musical director Ruth Ann Esseltine and choreographer Margaret Updike. The nuns: Barb Snyder, Suzanne Schilffarth, Sandy Radawiec, Erma Anderson and Carol Amrein worked countless hours to master the singing, dance steps and acting requirements of this challenging musical. Again this year, our patrons enjoyed dessert at intermission, thanks to our sponsors Turner Furniture, Florida Hospital Heartland Division, Edward Jones-Alan J. Holmes and Heartland National Bank. ...more

March 10, 2009

Four people charged in a 2008 Avon Park New Year's Eve brawl that involved police officers are set for trial next week, with jury selection on Monday. ...more

March 9, 2009

Lynn University's Megan Mangone carded a 1-under-par 71 to grab the first-round lead in the 11th annual NIU SpringLake Collegiate women's golf tournament at Springlake Golf Resort on Friday. ...more

March 8, 2009

Abhi Seetharamiah sat on a hot bench in the midday warmth and watched his Sebring teammates labor through their opening-round matches on Friday at the opening day of the Heartland Conference tennis tournament at the sun-soaked courts of South Florida Community College. ...more

March 8, 2009

Despite losing an early four-run lead, the South Florida Community College baseball team refused to fold in Friday night's Suncoast Conference opener against Pasco-Hernando CC. ...more

March 8, 2009

Zykeria Dawkins anchored the Sebring track team's 4x100 meter first-place finish and picked up the gold in the 100 meters individually on Thursday as the Blue Streaks welcomed Avon Park, Lake Placid, Hardee, Clewiston and others to the Early Bird meet at Firemen's Field. ...more

March 7, 2009

A 12-year-old girl first reported missing on Monday has been found. Stormi Canter was found by members of the Highlands County Sheriff's Office's Criminal Investigation Unit around 5 p.m., at a home near Commerce and Maple avenues, according to her mother, Helen McKinney. ...more

March 5, 2009

The Blue Streak baseball team breezed past a tottery Tornado defense and rolled to a 17-1, five-inning victory over Booker on Tuesday in Class 4A-District 10 action at Firemen's Field. ...more

March 5, 2009

In a recent front-page story in Highlands Today, it reported on the growing number of calls from parents to law enforcement regarding basic parenting issues, such as getting kids to come in the house or other disciplinary problems. This leaves most people dumbstruck that this is what we have become. It explains a lot of what's wrong in many areas of our society. ...more

March 4, 2009

Sebring High School senior Megan Wolfe and Lake Placid junior Tammi Beach competed in the Florida Swimming Spring Senior Championships at the YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando over the weekend. ...more

March 3, 2009