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Highlands County Courts have had a busy week, cleaning up cases that stick in a lot of minds. Monday, the guy who pled guilty to 35 counts of credit card fraud in a string of thefts in the spring of 2020 that bit at least eleven Highlands County residents got sent up the river for Continue reading

Sebring Police could use a hand in solving a suspicious weekend death. Cops were dispatched to a Walnut Street location just before 3:30 Sunday morning where a man was found lying on the side of the road … two subects took the man to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. No names Continue reading

Despite the nationwide housing boom, a new report by Stressa shows the Avon Park-Sebring metro area experienced only a two-percent increase in housing. Over the past decade we added just short of 1100 new homes. The local numbers are dwarfed by the 6.5-percent increase in new home construction nationwide. Locally, Highlands showed just a 5.8-percent Continue reading

The Highlands County Canvassing Board got together this morning to start the process of wrapping up this year’s primary election. They checked both provisional ballots and referred ballots and cured all of the outstanding tallies. Those were processed and now will be sent to the State of Florida who then will certify the final results. Continue reading

A new report by MoveBudda puts Avon Park in the top tier for those looking for a place to live in Florida. The City of Charm joins Sarasota and Ocala for those migrating here from other places. The survey says 229 people are moving in, for every 100 residents who are moving out. MoveBudda is Continue reading

It was a wide span of election victories for local candidates in yesterday’s primary elections. The biggest margin was in the District 5 School Board race. Nicole Radonski cruised to a win over incumbent Jill Compton-Twist with 60-percent of the vote total. Challenger Reece Martin also won his District four School Board race with a Continue reading

It’s Primary Election Day. it’s a time Republicans and Democrats will pick their standard bearers for the November General Election. However, there also are races that will be decided on today’s ballots. Republican incumbent Highlands County Commissioner Kathy Rapp is facing a challenge from former commissioner Don Elwell for a seat on the commission. Highlands Continue reading

It’s the calm before the storm. Tomorrow is Election Day for the primaries. That being said, better than 15-percent of Highlands County voters already have cast their ballots. Highlands County Supervisor of Elections Karen Healy says she has recieved some 7,232 votes by mail, with another 3,457 people coming to the polls for early voting. Continue reading

Quite the thunderstorm we had last night about dinner hour. All the louder because it was right over our heads. Public reports have at least two homes in Sebring hit by lightning when the thunderstorm cell passed through a little after 5pm. Early Voting for next Tuesday’s primary election continues through Saturday for Highlands County Continue reading

The wheels of justice are starting to move for the accused January 2019 Sun Trust bank shooter. Circuit Judge Peter Estrada Monday set a target of early next year to begin the trial of Zephen Xaver with a January date possible, pending clearance by the Chief Judge for the Circuit. Estrada gave attorney a date Continue reading