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Pertaining to the ditch cleaning dirt along the roads and highways of Highlands County. They used to give that dirt to the residents here in the area to fill in low spots in their yards, but now, because of someone's bright idea, they have the Road and Bridge Department drive 20-30 miles round trip to dump it in the landfill. Doesn't this practice fill up they landfill much quicker and cost the residents of Highlands County thousands of dollars more in fuel costs and man hours, trucking this dirt all the way out to the landfill? Whose brainless idea was it in the first place? ...more
November 28, 2008
At the corner of Barclay Road and The Oaks, about a dozen candidate signs of varying heights pepper the landscape in the wooded parcel across from the subdivision. ...more
September 30, 2008
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection will hold a community meeting from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday about the landfill Angelo's Aggregate Materials wants to build outside Dade City. ...more
September 20, 2008
It's outrageous for people to treat Florida's sensitive landscape as an illegal dumping ground when authorized landfills and collection sites are available. ...more
September 19, 2008
Residents who live along Wildlife Lane on the county's eastside are mobilizing to prevent a company from putting a construction and debris landfill near their homes. ...more
September 19, 2008
Hillsborough County Commissioner Jim Norman is proposing renaming the county Moral Courage Award after the late Ralph Hughes, a political supporter of Norman and other conservative Republicans on the County Commission. ...more
September 13, 2008
A proposed construction and debris landfill earmarked for about 26 acres on the county's eastside has residents there upset. ...more
August 22, 2008
Before we published photographs last week of gardeners' favorite salvaged yard art, we posted an online gallery of all the pictures we received. ...more
August 7, 2008
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