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The Highlands County Sports complex on Sebring’s south side won’t be the only fresh-dressed sports facility in the County soon. The City of Avion Park has been awarded grants for some serious renovations at the City’s MLK Junior Sports Complex on East State Street. New pavilions, fencing, visitors bleachers and football and basketball playing surfaces Continue reading

If you take advantage of the extended three-hour VPK “enrichment” program at the Highlands County Schools’ Pre-K Center next year, be prepared to pay a bit for it. The School Board last week agreed to institute a $50 weekly fee for the extended hours at the center for the 2024-2025 school year. The three-hour morning Continue reading

If you’re on the County’s trash pickup service, just a reminder – today’s Monday’s trash day, and pickups will run a day later than normal this week. It’s bulk trash week, by the way, so those extra boxes the kids tore through yesterday morning can disappear from your curb when they do the weekly pickups. Continue reading

There’s one more chapter to tell in that incident earlier this week where two adults burned a child’s belongings, threatened him as well, and ended in an officer-involved shooting. This chapter’s a good one. The nine-year old boy at the center of the incident is heading home to his family, with a load of Christmas Continue reading

Residents in the city of Avon Park are under a "Boil Water" notice for the forseeable future. There was a break this morning in a 12-inch line out by the Bell Street water plant, that dropped water pressure to near zero in some parts of the City of Charm. Any and all water to be Continue reading

Although there are no local statistics, this weekend’s storm is responsible for record rainfall totals across central Florida. Breaking records were Orlando Interational Airport, plus the cities of Sanford and Leesburg. Brevard County registered the highest total with 11 inches of rain. The weather caused some cancellations locally, but there was no damage reported. Meanwhile, Continue reading

Bad news for fans of the old Santa Rosa Hotel in Downtown Sebring. Not only has the building permit for the old building for work on the old building expired, matters have been complicated further. Before the permit can be renewed, an inspection will be needed, and with a collapse of a portion of the Continue reading

One man is dead and another is in jail following a shooting yesterday afternoon in Avon Park. The incident occured during an altercation at South Verona Avenue and East Hal MacRae Blvd about 1:45 yesterday afternoon. Arrested in the incident was 28-year-old Javionne Floyd. The name of the victim has not been released. So far, Continue reading

An early morning traffic accident south of Sebring reportedly has claimed a life. Florida Highway Patrol officials say a 62-year-old Lake Placid woman died, when her sport utility vehicle was hit from behind by a semi tractor-trailer rig. Florida Highway Patrol officials say the car was stopped at a traffic light at Highway 27 and Continue reading

First it was their airport, now the Avon Park City Council is looking to turn over managament of the city’s community center. Council members last night voted to let the Heartland Cultural Aliance take over management of the facility. Now to be known as the Community & Cultural Center, HCA members will operate the building, Continue reading