Water management officials will set controlled burns in the Jack Creek area north of Lake June during the next two months, according to a press release from the Southwest Florida Water Management District. ...more

August 30, 2008

You, Master Rall, either suffer from a hyperinflated ego or are inured by a consumptive cynicism. You blaspheme the service of more than 8,000,000 Americans who served honorably in Vietnam. As I read your warped diatribe, it occurs to me you are among the children we fought for in the steaming undergrowth of Southeast Asia and the frozen wastes of North Korea, not to mention the sands and deprivations of Iraq and Afghanistan. ...more

July 19, 2008

SEBRING — Last week's cold snap aside, Highlands County's temperatures were anything but winter-like since December. In fact, as we go through at least another three days of highs reaching 80 degrees, records from the National Weather Service indicated that Avon Park had the sixth warmest December since 1893. The average temperature in the City of Charm last month was 68.4 degrees, 5.8 degrees above the December average of 62.6. The mercury at the Archbold Biological Station south of Lake Placid did not stay as high up from the average mark, but still was 4.7 degrees higher at 67.1, above the station's 62.4 average. For Archbold, this is the fourth highest average since 1969. The NWS holds no data for Sebring. ...more

January 12, 2008

The controlled burn blamed by some for contributing to one of the worst traffic disasters in Polk County history on Wednesday was conducted under treacherous conditions. ...more

January 10, 2008

Her name is Pseudemys floridana floridana. At 13 inches long, 7 inches tall and 10 inches wide, she's regarded as a mature female, wise in the ways of her world. She's beautiful and today, she's bone tired. ...more

December 8, 2007

A female gopher tortoise left her home territory at the periphery of Tampa International Airport on Monday afternoon bound for a much safer habitat. ...more

September 25, 2007