SEBRING After a Labor Day break, Highlands County commissioners will have heavy lifting to do on three issues at their 9 a.m. today. ...more

September 8, 2009

Within six months, the roughly 500 customers of the problem plagued Landmark Utilities sewage plant should be hooked into the city sanitary sewer system. ...more

March 5, 2009

In yesterday's paper a writer wrote that he hopes that President Obama fails because, "Thinking that we can stimulate the economy by bigger government and more government programs is absurd and never worked." This is a rather startling, and I believe, unsubstantiated statement. ...more

February 25, 2009

Alabama's largest county appears headed for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a $3.2 billion mess created by the nation's credit crunch and a colossal, corruption-riddled sewer project. ...more

August 16, 2008

While it has slowed down recently, Florida's growth has boomed in recent years. Unfortunately, this growth outpaced our ability or willingness to address its impacts. Schools, roads, water supplies are all strained. And nowhere is this crisis more apparent than in Florida's sewage treatment infrastructure. ...more

August 5, 2008

To hear activists say it, their community is contaminated, saturated with sludge and overdue for a more modern sewage system. ...more

June 29, 2008

County administrator David Hamilton sees community up close during a walking tour Saturday. ...more

June 28, 2008

Tampa Catholic coach Bob Henriquez says, "Can we build it?" Ron Funk says, "Yes we can." ...more

November 22, 2007

There are only a couple of sprinkler heads on the irrigation system at a U.S. 19 carwash next to Wal-Mart, enough to water several small patches of grass. ...more

November 15, 2007

DeSOTO COUNTY - A worker servicing the county wastewater treatment plant's filters discovered the arm of a human fetus and placenta Saturday afternoon, Arcadia police said. ...more

October 16, 2007