Our liberty came within a whisper of vanishing when China gave to the world COVID-19, an enhanced virus that is so strong it could have destroyed half of the world’s population in just four years, leaving China with 750 million people instead of 1.5 billion, the USA to 300 million and likewi…
Horatio Hornblower, or to whom it may concern. Your disdain for Jesus Christ, Christianity, the church, I find it appalling (my opinion). I also think you are well past just being a non-believer (again, my opinion).
In 1950, when I was 12 years old, my family moved to Florida from Pennsylvania. My father started a macaroni business in Tampa, who doesn’t love Italian food. My younger brother and I were thrilled to be out of the cold and into paradise with white sandy beaches, palm trees and endless summers.
Roberts has helped many through his work
The NCAA was right to back off its threat to not allow any of its baseball and softball tournament games to be played in states that have enacted transgender-unfriendly laws.
Recent rain has left more than puddles and swollen creeks. Heavy showers have also created ideal breeding habitats for mosquitoes.
Back in March, the Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency held a community meeting to discuss a potential waterfront project next to the City Pier. Although much of the feedback was negative, the CRA has decided to hold another meeting on the same project this upcoming Thursday at 5:30 p.m. …
What do Queen Elizabeth (95), Janet Yellen (74), our president (78) and the pope (84) have in common?
Regarding the article in the June 5 publication of the Highlands News- Sun “Education board to wade into history debate” p. A5: I am enraged that our governor and education commissioner would even consider a policy like this! I will begin with the most disturbing statement of the whole artic…
“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.” – African proverb
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ill-thought-out ban on vaccine passports is keeping Florida’s cruising industry in limbo, potentially costing the state tourist dollars and jobs.
How many of our sons, fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers, left their life’s blood on the soil of other countries to make America the great nation we are?
Living to age 120 sounds great, but not if you have Alzheimer’s. Maybe there is a cure for Alzheimer’s on the horizon.
This Thursday, June 17, 2021, there will be an important workshop with the Sebring City Council and the Sebring CRA Board that is open to the public. It will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Sebring Civic Center. This workshop is to review proposed changes to the design of the Sebring (Jack Strou…
Businesses nearly everywhere in America say they’re desperate for workers, and the latest statistical evidence is the Labor Department’s Jolts report Tuesday of a record 9.3 million job openings in April. Get the message, Congress?
Readers of this column are aware that there were two weeks last month where “Laura’s Look” was nowhere to be found. Romona tells me I was missed – some people even contacted her asking if I’d been fired. Thankfully, that was not the issue.
There are countless books offering advice regarding life, work and gifts, sharing principles by which to live your best life. If you’re looking for one written in story form, making it easy to read and apply, look no further than Terry Felber’s “The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant.”
For school administrators and boards of education, this summer will present a major challenge on the health front related to, but also different from, what they were forced to contemplate during the darkest months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The political pundits are right, there are two Americas. The America that works, and the America that doesn’t. The America that contributes, and the America that doesn’t.
In Florida, 710 pedestrians were killed and 7,389 were injured in 2020. These are deaths and injuries that didn’t need to occur and shouldn’t have.
We’re getting back outside after more than a year stuck inside.
Recent events show how history repeats itself.
Businesses looking for people to work is reality. No matter the reasons behind the worker shortage, it is affecting service and even businesses’ ability to operate at all.
Most area schools celebrated graduations over the past weekend, marking the end to a strange, difficult year.
With the transition from spring to summer (it doesn’t officially begin until June 21), our days are becoming increasingly longer. And that’s not the only thing increasing — temperatures are soaring into the 90s. Those 100-degree days will be here before we know it.
More than 450,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses in less than a decade. Though the synthetic and powerful opioid fentanyl now is the leading cause of opioid overdose deaths, the epidemic had its roots in prescription opioid addiction.
