The Not-In-My-Backyard label carries a negative connotation, mainly that people who live in an area are selfishly opposed to any more development. It's a convenient label to apply, too, when anyone speaks out. ...more

October 14, 2007

SEBRING — To stay on course, Highlands County Sheriff Susan Benton held a four-hour strategic planning session Friday at the jury assembly room in the courthouse. The idea was to review the sheriff's existing three year strategic plan for 2006 to 2009, and to extend it out one more year to 2010. Benton's theme is: "Vision without action is only a dream, (but) vision with action can change the world." Crime statistics for most major crimes have been dropping, not just in Highlands County, but as a national trend, Benton said. ...more

September 23, 2007

As sunlight poked through the redwoods and a fiddler played 18th-century Scottish tunes, residents gathered recently for the Canyon Payphone Jubilee, a celebration that could occur, perhaps, only in this isolated, independent community on the eastern face of the Oakland hills. ...more

September 7, 2007