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For the first time in better than a decade, it appears the Brickell Building in Avon Park may be both occupied and successful. The Avon Park city council last night gave the go-ahead to municipat attorney Gerald Buhr to prepare a contract with Daniel Sauls Real Estate to begin development of the Main Street structure. Continue reading

It was another foggy morning in the area today, with dense fog and limited visibility in some places. Highlands County sheriff’s officials say so far there were no traffic incidents related to the weather. Highlands was part of a five county area that again had foggy conditions during the early morning hours. Tomorrow is the Continue reading

Afraid of being replaced by a machine – well, it appears in Highlands County the odds are pretty good. A new study by Commodity dot com indicate 47.2-percent of the workers in the Sebring Metro area are at high risk for automation. The survey says lo skilled, repetitive jobs – especially in the food service Continue reading

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