Brightly colored game-top tables, a swirling orange slide and bright green play bars all went up at A Kid's Place on Oct. 24. ...more

November 4, 2009

Is adding a small parking lot along Tarpon Avenue the answer to downtown's woes? ...more

October 31, 2009

A house in a historic district determined by the city building department to be unsafe for habitation and approved for demolition was taken down earlier this month and transformed into a vacant lot. ...more

October 28, 2009

Calls of abandoned properties in Avon Park have flooded the city's code enforcement's office. Complaints about overgrown grass, squatters living in the abandoned homes and illegal activity on these lots have been an ongoing problem for the city. ...more

October 28, 2009

By PAUL CATALA
THE SUN ...more

August 12, 2009

A 58-year-old Sebring resident was killed shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday when his Chevy pickup veered off the north-bound shoulder of U.S 98, and he was thrown out of the pickup, according to a Florida Highway Patrol press release. ...more

April 5, 2009

TAMPA - One neighbor's generosity and a dozen or so wading pools filled with compost are jump-starting a community garden in Seminole Heights. About 40 neighbors met recently to discuss plans to begin tilling soil on a large vacant lot off Violet Street in South Seminole Heights. Except in this case they are opting for above-ground containers over in-ground planting. ...more

March 31, 2009

Where the Internet has taken us in such a short time is astonishing, and where it might take us is unsettling to anyone concerned about protecting both personal privacy and intellectual creations. ...more

March 27, 2009

Twenty-three families are interested in getting one of eight townhouses proposed by Highlands County Habitat for Humanity for a vacant property owned by the Community Redevelopment Agency, said Habitat's Executive Director Mike Jacobson on Monday. ...more

March 27, 2009

Lisa DeCarr and Jessie LaDon Albach were like sisters. The 15-year-old friends hung around each other's neighborhoods, chatted about boys and borrowed each other's clothes. ...more

February 19, 2009