Things to Do is a list of some of the most interesting upcoming events. For a complete list of Tampa Bay area events, see this week's Friday Extra. ...more

June 11, 2008

Imagine a time when all sports and extracurricular activities have been eliminated altogether. Kids across Highlands County are sitting after school with ball in hand, but no place to play. With budget concerns hitting nearly every school system in the country, many sports programs are being cut or an increasing trend has emerged — pay-to-play sports. The shrinking education budgets in this country have festered this new wave of subsidy, without the total dismissal of sports and other programs that were once a free privilege to the masses, but now has many students across the country on the outside of the stadium looking in. "I would never agree to a system like that for our schools," said newly elected Avon Park city councilman Al Hinson. "[Pay-to-play] would ween certain kids out, and that goes against the grain of what high school sports is all about. ...more

November 23, 2007

Fall festival season is here. Several church and charitable organizations have scheduled activities to celebrate the season or Halloween, when tradition encourages little goblins and ghosts, angels and pumpkin-heads to come out of hiding and enjoy the world's bounty. ...more

October 16, 2007