The Sebring volleyball team didn't need much motivation in dispatching Booker in three games (25-8, 25-14, and 25-17) in a Class 4A-District 10 match-up on Tuesday night, but that doesn't mean Sebring coach Venessa Sinness isn't pulling out all the stops to keep her team inspired. ...more

September 18, 2008

VOLLEYBALL Lady Sharks improve to 7-0 on the season with a three-game sweep of Hernando. ...more

September 16, 2008

A new CD from local band The Beauvilles. ...more

September 11, 2008

System: Nintendo Wii Publisher: Nintendo ...more

September 5, 2008

An American military investigation concluded Tuesday that five to seven civilians and 30 to 35 Taliban were killed in an airstrike operation in western Afghanistan last month, far lower than the figure of 90 civilians that Afghan and United Nations officials found in preliminary investigations. ...more

September 3, 2008

At 7:58 p.m. today, we're exactly three days away from the second new moon of August. This Saturday provides the excellent fishing conditions, with the midday heat to contend with the only serious challenge. ...more

August 27, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitians were told to prepare for evacuations as Tropical Storm Gustav formed quickly Monday in the Caribbean on a path to hit - as a hurricane - the country's denuded southern coast before moving on to Cuba, the Bahamas and possibly Florida. ...more

August 26, 2008

The Children's Services Council will hold its meeting on Wednesday. One issue on the agenda will be a Truancy Bill Resolution. The Florida State Legislature passed the Bullying Bill this year after four long years of effort. This will be the third year of efforts to persuade the legislature to pass this companion Truancy Bill. The local Highlands County School Board has passed elements of its school regulations pertaining to bullying and truancy to more efficiently manage conduct on campus, but it is the state law and regulations which need to be updated for all 67 counties, to ensure a safe and suitable environment for students to learn in our public schools. Truancy is one significant consequence of bullying. One only has to note the level and intensity of destructive and violent behavior by students on and off campus, in news reports, to know that our educational institutions are in peril. ...more

August 25, 2008

An area of low pressure in the central Caribbean Sea has become Tropical Storm Gustav and is forecast to become a hurricane by Tuesday. ...more

August 25, 2008

The last-quarter moon phase occurred Saturday night at 11:50 p.m., which means we enter into the "perfect week" of the early morning bite at its best. ...more

August 24, 2008