Several city council members sat on the proverbial fence Tuesday night before voting unanimously to allow chain link fences to be erected in residents' front yards during passage of a fence and wall ordinance for the city. ...more

December 3, 2009

City Council unanimously voted this week to continue the sale of beer and wine at Sims Park, Orange Lake and Cavalaire Square during downtown events, keeping alive an ordinance passed in 2008. ...more

November 7, 2009

City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday in favor of continuing the sale of beer and wine at Sims Park, Orange Lake and Cavalaire Square during downtown events, keeping alive an ordinance originally passed in 2008. ...more

November 7, 2009

City Manager Steve Spina will ask the City Council to consider relaxing the ordinance that governs Sunday sales of alcohol. ...more

September 13, 2009

Turn it down Brooksville. The city council approved an ordinance Monday that allows impoundment for code violations, including loud car stereos. ...more

July 23, 2009

To save money, the Avon Park City Council voted 3-2 Monday to hold only one council meeting per month. ...more

February 25, 2009

A city document obtained on Friday states that city officials have met as a workgroup to discuss its parking ordinance as it relates to a proposed Sam's Club in the Sebring Square Shopping Center, where the old Scotty's used to be. ...more

January 18, 2009

There's an old saying that the two things people should never want to see being made are sausage and laws. ...more

November 26, 2008

There's an old saying that the two things people should never want to see being made are sausage and laws. On Tuesday, however, the City Council managed to grind out and approve by a 4-1 vote a resolution that will allow nonprofit organizations to include alcohol sales at a limited number of events in Sims Park. ...more

November 22, 2008

A first reading of a proposed ordinance to allow nonprofit organizations to sell beer and wine during events at Sims Park produced over an hour and a half of commentary at last Wednesday's City Council meeting. ...more

November 12, 2008