Suncoast Parkway users can soon say goodbye to those clunky electronic boxes on their car's windshield. ...more

February 19, 2008

SEBRING — In Lake Placid, a hiring freeze. In Sebring, no money for the Boys and Girls Clubs. At the South Florida Water Management District, web casts instead of off-site meetings. In recessionary times, with constitutional budget cuts and reduced sales tax revenues, governments are saving money any way they can. Highlands County Last year, Vicki Pontius, Highlands County's parks and recreation director, closed the R.K. Butler Campground on Route 721. "It's a nice facility," Pontius said. "People can still use the boat launch and the basketball court, and there's a picnic table." ...more

February 15, 2008

SEBRING – The Highlands County Agri-Civic Center was opened as an emergency shelter at about 6:30 p.m. Monday to shelter people who had to evacuate the Henscratch Road area due to a wildfire. Gloria Rybinsky, county public information officer, said she did not have a count of how many families came to the shelter. "We do not know how many people will use this shelter," Rybinski said. "It was not a mandatory evacuation. It was a voluntary evacuation and we opened the Agri-Civic Center for people who might need this option." ...more

February 11, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - An elderly woman and her daughter are looking for answers after a fire destroyed their home last week. ...more

February 2, 2008

SEBRING — David Flowers, director of county facilities management, is under investigation for sexually explicit, instant messages he exchanged on county computers with fired budget department employee Treasa Handley. Rick Helms, the assistant county administrator, is in charge of the investigation of Flowers, a former county commissioner who failed in his bid this week to become director of the county's new division of administrative services. ...more

January 31, 2008

The Pasco Sheriff's Office vice-narcotics unit is dismantling a large marijuana grow-house operation. ...more

January 30, 2008

When nine or more Baha'i's vote to form a new faith group, instead of calling it a church, it is an LSA - Local Spiritual Assembly. There is no clergy. There are governing bodies at the local, national and international levels, which all consist of nine elected members - no nominations or electioneering. The LSA's oversee the activities of the faith communities. ...more

January 12, 2008

Meetings at a church and in member homes. ...more

January 11, 2008

My father had many colorful money maxims, such as "Save for a rainy day," "Buy low, sell high" and "Money doesn't buy happiness." ...more

January 6, 2008

A 3.65-acre site once slated for 72 town homes will become 300 parking spaces for employees of the James A. Haley VA Medical Center. ...more

December 22, 2007