Santa has arrived, the Christmas decorations are in place and the merchants at Lakeshore Mall in Sebring are hopeful for a good holiday shopping season. ...more

November 22, 2009

We like the way the Highlands County Recreation and Parks Advisory Committee, better known as R-PAC, responded to Sebring's Dixie Youth Baseball request. Board members moved quickly to support a proposal for major improvements to the baseball complex, and obviously understood the importance of this request. ...more

November 22, 2009

The Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce newsletter is online. ...more

November 22, 2009

The following people were booked Wednesday, Nov. 18 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

November 22, 2009

We had two major talent events going at once, The Highlands Little Theatre production of "Fiddler on the Roof" as well as the finale of Heartland Idol. Both were outstanding and I have sympathy for anyone who missed either of them. "Fiddler on the Roof" was flat outstanding. If Broadway scouts ever saw Pete Pollard in action it is my feeling that he would not be living in Sebring, but in New York. ...more

November 22, 2009

I would posit that any time we cannot raise the troops to fight a war from our own citizenry, but rather must rely on outside contractors, as we are today, (over 133,000 in Iraq and 71,000 in Afghanistan), then we are in a war in which we should not be involved, since obviously the majority of the American people do not support the effort. It then becomes "their war," that is, those who are fighting it, but not "our war." World War II was "our war." Everyone was involved, starting with a draft and going through rationing of food, gas, tires, clothing, etc. We were in an all out mode and we won. ...more

November 21, 2009

No fourth-quarter collapse. No 26-turnover performance. Two unofficial games into this young season, Sebring is looking more and more like a contender - again. ...more

November 21, 2009

This nation has entered an era of arrogance unlike anything that has ever existed. It has loosened upon the earth every evil and every evil lie that exists in the world (Satan's domain.) With its democratic principles it has managed to undo all of the work that God had done since the fall of man and people are so corrupt that they think that this is great. It is "great" because each individual can have his or her own way and own self-devised view of God and reality. ...more

November 21, 2009

Dixie Youth Baseball is developing a five-year plan for improvements to the city's Max Long Field Complex, the first phase of which is to resurface fields 2 and 4, which are the smaller fields, to improve drainage. ...more

November 20, 2009

It is a known fact that World War II made an end to the Great Depression. ...more

November 20, 2009