Applicants have three days remaining to submit resumes for the Hernando County School District Superintendent position with 14 applications turned in thus far. ...more

October 28, 2009

Stephanie Bowyer, who has two children in Highlands County public schools, has a suggestion for the school board: Don't do any budget cuts. ...more

March 8, 2009

Due to a drop in student enrollment and expected cuts in funding, Superintendent Wally Cox recommended cutting 45.5 full-time instructional and administrative positions in the 2009-10 budget including 43 (5 percent) school-level teaching positions. ...more

February 26, 2009

Regarding the dire and desperate state of our financial educational budget, as a concerned citizen I suggest the following: ...more

February 1, 2009

For a quarter of a century, Enid Uhrich has spent time helping those in distress through computer database work. For two decades, Betsy Mehaffey has spent time volunteering to help others keep their cardiovascular health up and monitoring accident or other health issues. ...more

December 3, 2008

First, I will give the current administration the benefit of the doubt. I can overlook the lost evidence and the cases that will subsequently be dropped. A few lucky criminals will get away. I can look past the deceit of the two different reports on the evidence audit. I will also look past the verbal abuse while in uniform of a county commissioner on a darkened parking lot. I can also overlook her other well documented explosive temper episodes, which have been reported widely. ...more

October 16, 2008

Sheriff Benton was quoted in Highlands Today dated July 16 when defending the huge increase in the sheriff's budget. "You folks asked for it, you got it," the sheriff asserted, indicating that she had given citizens what they wanted in terms of services. ...more

August 29, 2008

Two of the most overpaid public servants the county has, Guy Maxcy and Carl Cool, have come out against Amendment One. Why? Because they will have a little less money to throw toward contractors and Realtors who are bound and determined to over-build the county at the expense of its citizens. They won't be able to throw our tax money around like the federal government does. Have they ever thought about cutting back on their spendthrift ways? No. They come up with ways to spend more of your tax money that will affect you for years to come. ...more

February 4, 2008

SEBRING — Highlands County commissioners expect to have people filling all four of the new, top-level administrative positions that they created by March 15. Within two months, the county's top echelon of administrators will go from two to six. In addition to the current top two – the administrator and assistant administrator – Highlands County also will have four division directors, each reporting directly either to the administrator or assistant administrator. ...more

January 24, 2008

The Florida Orchestra will open its next masterworks program with the joys of Mozart and Sibelius, but just as important as the music will be a bit of security behind the scenes. ...more

December 11, 2007