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Happy day before Black Friday
With retailers advertising Christmas sales earlier and earlier each year it seems as if Thanksgiving is getting lost in the shuffle. There was a time when Thanksgiving was treated more as a day of remembrance than just a day off giving people an opportunity to plan on how and where they were going to shop on the following morning. ...more
November 20, 2009
Bomb threat leads to assisted living evacuation
Approximately 90 residents were safely evacuated after a bomb threat was called in to the Royal Care of Avon Park Rehabilitation & Nursing Center just before 4 p.m. Thursday. ...more
November 20, 2009
Police blotter
The following people were booked Tuesday, Nov. 17 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more
November 20, 2009
Student arrested for having gun at school
A Lake Placid Middle School student was arrested Wednesday after school officials reportedly found a gun in his book bag. ...more
November 20, 2009
Sheriff's office K-9 helps nab Martin County purse snatcher
It was the second day of a week-long training seminar in Stuart, but a Highlands County Sheriff's Office bloodhound went right from class and into the field to help nab a purse snatcher. ...more
November 20, 2009
No playoffs, no problem
The high school football playoffs start tonight, and, alas, the three Highlands County teams are making other plans. In the end, Sebring couldn't win The Big Game(s), Lake Placid coalesced too late and Avon Park, playing out an athletic director's ultimate nightmare, faced four top-10 teams in five weeks. ...more
November 20, 2009
Children's Advocacy Center is expanding
With a major expansion nearing completion, Highlands County's Children's Advocacy Center will soon truly centralize its staff and most of its agency partners under one roof. ...more
November 19, 2009
Wildfire hazards increase across area
A dispatch went out at about noon Tuesday about a brush fire close to a house in the 1500 block of Lake Josephine Drive. ...more
November 19, 2009
Sebring council picks Polatty for P&Z
By a 4-1 vote, former Highlands County Development Services Director James M. "Jim" Polatty Jr., was appointed by the Sebring City Council and will start work on Monday, Nov. 23 as the city's new planning and zoning director. ...more
November 19, 2009
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