Put this event on your schedule: The Highlands County Tea Party Rally  will be this Saturday,  Feb 27.  The festivities will run from  10 AM - 1 PM  and will be held at The Florida Fireman' s Association Building,  2450 US 27 South, Avon Park (Located next to the National Guard Armory)

  Our Master of Ceremonies will be  Barry Foster, News Director, Cohan Radio Group. Speakers include  Don Elwell, Candidate for the Highlands County Commission and local playright and patriot Bill Farmer. The keynote address will be delivered by Bob Smith a great conservative and former United States Senator from New Hampshire and a current candidate for United States Senate here in Florida.

  Also invited to sing is American Idol contestant Shelby Dressel.

  We look forward to seeing you there!

HIGHLANDS TODAY WROTE THIS ARTICLE ABOUT THE TEAPARTY MOVEMENT Take some tie to readi it, digest it and tell them what you think. You might also want to show up at the republican or democrat meetings and let their leadership know your opinion as well. 

SEBRING - One is a retired teacher who has an alpaca farm. Another was a paralegal. One used to work in banks and another was a homemaker.

Until recently they didn't know each other but all shared a growing concern about the way the country was being run.

Then Congress approved a series of stimulus packages to jump start the economy and rescue Wall Street, failing banks and Big Auto.

Mandatory government-run health insurance started looking as a possibility and Washington, D.C. kept dithering on stronger laws against illegal immigration.

Today, Richard Fankhauser, Mary Bengtson, Phyllis Moloney and Gladys Nealon are a few local taxpayers and citizens fighting what they say is a people's war against big government, unbridled spending in Washington and the onslaught of socialism in the United States.