We like the way the Highlands County Recreation and Parks Advisory Committee, better known as R-PAC, responded to Sebring's Dixie Youth Baseball request. Board members moved quickly to support a proposal for major improvements to the baseball complex, and obviously understood the importance of this request. ...more

November 22, 2009

The city has started running ads this week to hire an architect and engineer for the long-awaited fire station renovation. ...more

May 8, 2009

Dartmouth Avenue in Spring Hill will be closed from Cactus Circle to County Line Road beginning Monday, May 4, while drainage and utility work is done in conjunction with the County Line Road construction project, according to a news release from the contractor, DAB Constructors Inc. ...more

April 30, 2009

The Florida Department of Transportation will host a public meeting March 30 to discuss a proposed conceptual design to widen U.S. 41 North from 12th Street to Kracker Avenue in Gibsonton. The meeting will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Resort & Club at Little Harbor, 611 Destiny Drive, Ruskin. ...more

March 30, 2009

I've just concluded the first week of my life devoted entirely to planting, pruning and puttering. ...more

March 13, 2009

The prospect for getting the permit soon to build a new section at the county landfill is brighter, but still far from certain, Utilities Director Joe Stapf told the county commission Tuesday. ...more

March 11, 2009

Nearly a year after floodwaters damaged the downtown fire station, the city council has given the fire department permission to repair the building. ...more

January 14, 2009

Nearly a year after the Zephyrhills Fire Department was flooded out of its downtown fire station, the city may finally be ready to repair the 50-year-old building. ...more

January 10, 2009

An affordable housing subdivision with "green" construction is in the earliest stages of planning for the area west of the University of South Florida. ...more

December 31, 2008

It must go back to the afternoons my sisters, brother and I spent poring over Sears and Penney's catalogues, laboring for hours to decide on the One True Toy we wanted. ...more

November 2, 2008