SEBRING –– A special five-member interview committee will meet Dec. 20 at the Highlands County Government Annex Building to pick a replacement for former county Housing Director Penny Phillippi. The five county commissioners, who will act on the committee's recommendation, have the chance to promote from within the housing department to pick its new leader. Teresa Hofer, now the acting housing director since Phillippi's Dec. 1 departure, is one of the five candidates for the job. ...more

December 14, 2007

Hernando County Human Resources Director Barbara Dupre said her department has received more than 30 applications for the soon-to-be-vacant fleet manager's position. ...more

December 7, 2007

The county hopes to have its new county administrator on board by March 1. ...more

November 29, 2007

During the tumultuous twin budget hearings held last September, hundreds of residents raised the battle cry: Lower taxes and stop government spending. ...more

November 27, 2007

SEBRING — Around the holidays and on Fridays, there's a greater chance students will be facing a substitute teacher in their classroom. With so many teachers taking off the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving, on a "proposed" calendar for the 2007-08 school year there is no school for the entire week. The school districts in Polk and Hardee counties, and some others in the state, take the week off, Deputy Superintendent Rodney Hollinger told the school board Tuesday. It should be considered for Highlands County because of the large number of substitutes who work on the Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, he said. ...more

November 26, 2007

SEBRING — On average, a 911 call brings a Highlands County EMS ambulance crew to the scene of a medical emergency in five to six minutes. "That's an excellent response time for a rural county," said Steve Coltharp, interim director of county EMS. ...more

October 4, 2007