AVON PARK — The Avon Park Community Center cost the city and its taxpayers an average of well over $10,000 every year since it opened at its current location, city records indicate. For all but one year since record-keeping began on the community center, expenses were considerably higher than revenues. This is without considering the damages the building received during the 2004 hurricane season. Last week, the community center's losses led at least one councilman to compare it to the city's airport, accusing both of losing money each year. "We need to either get rid of it or do it right," Councilman George Hall said Monday. Hall blamed the center's losses partially on the lack of advertising for it. He added that there was not even an information box placed there. ...more

February 19, 2008

Residents and business and property owners soon will share their dreams for a renewed Seminole Heights. ...more

January 24, 2008

Renee Montgomery scored 26 points and top-ranked Connecticut stayed unbeaten by rallying to beat No. 3 North Carolina 82-71 on Monday night. ...more

January 22, 2008

AVON PARK — Two weeks after Sarah Adelt, who continues as the city clerk, took over as the interim city manager, it doesn't seem all that different in Avon Park City Hall despite the change in city managers. The double doors still open to Sarah Adelt's desk, and she's juggling the phone speaking to a city council member while plugging numbers into her computer's planner. Despite shuffling some tasks around "the transition's going very well," she emphasized. ...more

January 15, 2008

Renee Bunts' first reaction to Crossover Community Church wasn't positive. ...more

December 22, 2007

Sometime during their eight-month relationship, Gary Lee Wilson Jr. made an ominous promise to Kelly Webster: ...more

December 18, 2007

A former aide of County Commissioner Kevin White has accused him of sexual harassment, saying she was fired last week for rebuffing his advances. ...more

November 15, 2007

The parents of a 1-month-old girl are in jail today after they were found unconscious in a car with her in the back seat, Largo police said. ...more

October 2, 2007