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Highlands County Sherriff’s detectives have are investigating the case of a young woman whose body was found yesterday morning behind the Avon Park Advance Auto Parts store … they established the 5’ 3” woman’s identity last night, but haven’t released the name pending notification of the family. If you know anything that could help, they’d Continue reading

Lake Placid Police are looking for the person or persons responsible for a Sunday night incident on Highway 27 in the town limits … a little after 9pm, a Dodge pickup pulling a Jon boat and trailer came up on another car and fired a bunch of orbeez water beads out of a toy airsoft Continue reading

While Highlands County school officials are warning of a homebuilding boom here, a new study by the Inspection Support Network shows that only 2.7-percent of homebuyers in the Avon Park-Sebring Metro Area are under the age of 25. That’s well below the national average of 4.6 percent. The most favorable area seems to be Iowa Continue reading

A new survey by Rehabs.com shows that Highlands County’s unemployed are statistically more likely to be heavy drinkers. In fact, Highlands has among the highest rates of both heavy drinkers – at 19-percent, and unemployed – at 4.5 percent in the Sunshine State. Gulf county was the tops in Florida overall. Union County was listed Continue reading

Despite a stream of residents asking them not to do it, Sebring city council members vote 4-1 to approve the concept of a multi-million dollar waterfront district where the Alan Altvader cultural complex now sits. Councilman Lenard Carlisle, the lone dissenting vote, said he was unhappy that there were no firm budget numbers attached to Continue reading

It now costs less to set up shop in Avon Park – especially if you’re a big water user. City council members there have voted to drop their capacity fees back to what they were before a 2020 ordinance. At that time, the council had boosted the charges to help to finance a planned new Continue reading

The month of April will be chocked full of events thanks to action last night by the Avon Park city council. They gave the go-ahead for three major festivals in the City of Charm. Vet Jam 2022 will start the month off with music, food and vendors in Donaldson Park. This will be the first Continue reading

It appears to be a consequential meeting for the Avon Park city council tonight, with a number of items of importance up before the board. They’ll hear the second and final reading of a measure that will put teeth in their code enforcement citations in an effort to clean up the City of Charm. In Continue reading

It was a record-setting night at the Highlands County Fair last night, as two hogs brought in some $80,000. The money goes to the Alvarez family who have undergone a series of tragedies. Both parents died this summer as a result of Coronavirus, then the house flooded out. The oldest adult daughter has come in Continue reading

It’s Alan Jay Automotive Day at the Highlands County Fair, that means that students can be admitted, with a can of food – that’s only at the Kenilworth Gate. Slated for tonight is the Junior Livestock Auction where many of the animals that have been shown throughout the week will go on the auction block, Continue reading