Think of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp., or JROTC, and the mind conjures a small group of military-minded young men in uniform marching with flags and rifles and practicing drills in the school parking lot. ...more

November 1, 2009

A health care facility that has been in business 25 years this year had another reason to celebrate Thursday night. ...more

November 1, 2009

Playing its biggest district game in a number of years should have had Lake Placid fired up for Friday night's Class 2B-District 6 matchup with Fort Myers Dunbar. ...more

November 1, 2009

Frank and Lois Vara of Lake Placid showed up at The Great Treasure Hunt on Thursday basically out of curiosity. ...more

November 1, 2009

Halloween started a day early for about 100 children, who marched down the Sebring Circle, parading their costumes and pocketing candy from downtown merchants on the Circle and Ridgewood Drive. ...more

October 31, 2009

The Lake Placid volleyball team is making sure veteran Green Dragons coach Marilyn Jones' last season on the bench is a memorable one. ...more

October 31, 2009

I'd like to introduce a program that could help with that problem; it's called Work Force America. ...more

October 31, 2009

Big Insurance, with its excessive profiteering and exploitation has shown itself a cruel and inhumane master and should no longer be allowed to exclusively administer America's health care. ...more

October 30, 2009

After losing a number of talented swimmers from last year's squad, the Lake Placid swim program looked to be in a rebuilding season. ...more

October 30, 2009

The Lake Placid volleyball team proved it deserved to be the top seed for the Class 3A-District 9 tournament by sweeping county rival Avon Park by scores of 25-21, 25-12, 25-22 in Wednesday night's semifinals in Mulberry. ...more

October 30, 2009