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

Volunteers today will plant a flower garden outside a Tampa police district to honor officers killed in the line of duty. ...more

April 21, 2009

A state grant will pay for landscaping to spruce up downtown's Meridian Avenue. ...more

April 16, 2009

A very powerful and emotion-filled gathering was held Wednesday at Kate Jackson Community Center. Proud homeowners who live along and contiguous to the Gasparilla Parade route told the audience in detail of the depravity, lawlessness, vulgarity and criminal activity that goes on while the colorful and popular parade passes by. It has become an anything-goes event where underage drinking, destruction of property and lewd behavior have become the norm. ...more

March 6, 2009

The U.S. Navy has indefinitely suspended its plans to use live bombs at the Avon Park Air Force Range, due to budgetary issues, according to Lt. Cmdr. Philip Rosi, public relations officer for the U.S. Fleet Forces Command. ...more

January 15, 2009

Regarding the letter on Dec. 29: That was certainly a short season of peace on earth, goodwill to men! ...more

January 1, 2009

The City Council has paved the way for the installation of a new city-owned impound lot that could be ready by the end of January. The Council approved an $11,000 bid by Hudson-based Hendrickson Fence and Rail to install 540 feet of fencing, topped with barbed wire, and a pair of 16-foot gates to an area behind City Hall adjacent to the police station entrance. ...more

December 17, 2008

The Tampa City Council has approved the contract with Team Pain to build a skate park at the New Tampa Recreation Center. ...more

August 27, 2008

The Tampa City Council has approved the contract with Team Pain to build a skate park at the New Tampa Recreation Center. ...more

August 21, 2008

The dog days of summer may be here, but by Aug. 1, pigskins will be flying across MacDugal Park. ...more

July 23, 2008