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Avon Park city officials are looking for citizens willing to serve on some municipal boards and committees – hopefully, with an eye toward growing the City of Charm. In a discussion about appointing new members to the city’s Planning and Zoning Board, Mayor Garrett Anderson called for committees to be more business friendly and discussed Continue reading

There may be a new attraction coming to Avon Park. City council members last night heard a presentation from longtime optometrist and baseball enthusiast Ronald Sevingy, proposing the establishment of the Thomas "Flash" Gordon Baseball Hall of Fame. The facility would not only include Gordon and his sons’ major league accomplishments, but also Hal MacRae Continue reading

Highlands County sheriff’s officials are investigating a weekend shooting incident. Apparently, a 32-year-old Avon Park man was shot and killed at a vacant lot along South Carolina Avenue in Avon Park Saturday night. Authorities say the suspect allegedly stole a car at the scene and fled to a Sebring home. Arrested was 30-year-old Kenneth Jerome Continue reading

Highlands County Sheriff’s officials are looking for more information about the car that was pulled from Lake Oliva this past Monday. Detectives are requesting that anyone who lives in the Avon Park Lakes area, or those in the area east of U.S. 27 to County Road 17, to review their video camera footage. They’re looking Continue reading

If you work in Sebring, apparently chances are pretty good you could be replaced by a machine. A new study by Commodity dot com shows that nearly half the workers in the Sebring metro area are candidates. In fact, just over 47-percent are at high risk of being replaced. nearly 22-percent are at medium risk Continue reading

Florida Highway Patrol officials now say it was a Lake Wales man that was killed in that motorcycle accident early yesterday morning. The 35-year-old rider failed to make a curve on the Panther Parkway just south of the circle and flipped the bike – he was pronounced dead at the scene. Reports say he was Continue reading

NEWS 4/19/22 BF FATAL MOTORCYCLE An early morning accident on the Panther Parkway has claimed a life. According to reports, a motorcyclist was southbound near the Lake Denton curve, when they ran off the road and flipped. The rider was thrown off the bike and was declared dead at the scene. Florida Highway Patrol officials Continue reading

A traffic accident south of Sebring has claimed a life. Florida Highway Patrol reports indicate a 35-year-old Sebring man slammed his car head-on into a semi-truck on Highway 98 near the Lock Access Road. Apparently, the car went left of center on a curve and hit the semi. Two people in a sport utility vehicle Continue reading

Today is Good Friday and officials at the Highlands County School system have announced there are no classes today for students here. Motorists are reminded to watch out for youngsters out and about during regular school hours. Classes will resume on Monday. Despite some rain in the area, conditions remain dry overall. Firefighters from West Continue reading

A new survey by the company Filterbuy shows that the Avon Park-Sebring Metro area registered an average unemployment of six percent last year. It was higher than the national average of 5.3-percent for 2021. Last year’s numbers were incrementally better than 2020, but still are anemic with better than 2,000 local people said to still Continue reading