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The Sebring City Council is considering approval of a moratorium on new mobile home and RV parks although any proposed or current zonings will not be affected. The moratorium ordinance up for consideration states that while the current City’s Code of Ordinances has various regulations related to mobile and manufactured home standards, mobile home parks Continue reading

Yes, just in case your neighbors jumped the gun … trash collection out in the County is one day late for the rest of the week. Normal Wednesday pickups are tomorrow, Thursday will be Friday. Good news! Storm debris pickup in the County from Hurricane Milton is officially complete. If that sounds tongue in cheek, Continue reading

A Highlands County man is being held in the county jail without bond on charges of felonious aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and misdemeanor battery. Anibal Jimenez-Cedano, was arrested Sunday night after a deputies responded to a battery complaint at his residence. According to reports, his victim said that Jimenez-Cedano Continue reading

A Sebring motorcyclist has died as a result of injuries sustained from a two-vehicle crash Saturday night on HWY 27 just south of Sebring. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the motorcyclist was travelling north in the center lane of US 27, north of George Blvd. at a high rate of speed. A sedan was Continue reading

Yesterday marked another step towards fully equipping Highlands County Fire Rescue Personnel with advanced life support equipment. The equipment will enable emergency care and medication to be administered to residents and visitors of Highlands County until a Rescue Transport Unit can get on scene. Engines 7, 19, and 41 are now carrying the ALS equipment Continue reading

The search continues for a company that can take down the water tower located behind Sebring Fire Station 15 on US 27. The City of Sebring recently decided to once again extend the bidding deadline for the removal of the landmark built in 1988. The new deadline is now January 3rd, and had a mandatory Continue reading

The mother of a murdered Lake Placid man is seeking retribution from the apartment complex that her son was slain at. Kristina Voros, is suing Golf Villas Apartments in Lake Placid and Debra Ann Worley Realty Inc., for what she and her attorney call inadequate security. 26-year-old Brian Husted, JR., Voros’ son, reportedly approached a Continue reading

Waste Connections customers in Highlands County are advised that garbage and bulk waste pickup will not occur on Christmas Day, Wednesday, the 25th. Garbage and yard waste will also not be picked up on New Year’s Day, Wednesday January 1st, due to the landfill being closed on both holidays. Curbside collection services are expected to Continue reading

The School Board of Highlands County has recently decided to join a multidistrict lawsuit brought forth by a Miami Law firm that aims to seek reimbursement for the over payment of insulin products caused by so called price fixing schemes. According to Ferraro Law Firm, insulin prices have increased exponentially over the last two decades, Continue reading

A convicted sex offender that absconded was located and arrested yesterday after he was found hiding in a closet of a home in Tampa. George Brown Jr., was convicted of a lewd and lascivious act in the presence of a child under the age of 16 in Alachua County back in 2003. Since that conviction Continue reading