Lake Placid Insider

08/24/2026

Approximately 19,000 Highlands County property owners will receive corrected TRIM notices after an error was found in notices prepared by a third-party vendor. Property Appraiser Raymond McIntyre explains what happened, who was affected and when the corrected notices will arrive.

Find out more:

OFFICIAL UPDATE: According to Highlands County Property Appraiser Raymond McIntyre, 19,000 of the 120,000 TRIM notices mailed contained an error. The

08/24/2026

TRIM notices have arrived, but there is an error on the notices prepared by the third-party vendor. I have reached out to the Highlands County Property Appraiser for more information and will share a full story once I have the details.

Not all TRIM notices contain an error. Corrected notices will be prepared and mailed at the third-party vendor’s expense—not at taxpayers’ expense.

NOTE: TRIM notices are not property tax bills

𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝!

Truth in Millage or TRIM notices have been mailed out by the Property Appraiser's office. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥. It is a notice of the proposed property taxes and provides property owners with information about the taxing authorities, proposed tax rates, and proposed tax amounts before the taxing authorities hold their public hearings and finalize the budgets and millage rates.

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: The TRIM notice does not include the non-ad valorem assessments such as fire and garbage. The tax bills mailed out late October 2026 by our office will include both ad valorem and non-ad valorem amounts due.

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐌 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 (𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐡𝐜𝐩𝐚𝐨.𝐨𝐫𝐠/) 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬.

08/24/2026

You don’t have to have a child at a Lake Placid school to be part of the Green Dragon community. You may be a parent or grandparent. You may be a former student. You may simply be a neighbor who would enjoy watching a volleyball match, attending a concert or showing up to support local students.

But when you no longer have children in school, it can be surprisingly easy to lose touch with what is happening there. You may want to support the Green Dragons—you just don’t know when or where to show up.

The new Green Dragon Guide from Lake Placid Insider is meant to help change that.

It brings sports, activities, important school dates, days off and more into one calendar. It is a place for parents and students to keep up, but it is also an invitation to the rest of Lake Placid to reconnect with our local school community—or connect with it for the first time.

The guide is live now, and it will continue to grow as more events and information are added. Take a look. Find something that interests you. Then go cheer, watch, listen or simply show up.

Green Dragon Guide: Your guide to all things Green Dragon.

https://lakeplacidinsider.com/lake-placid-green-dragon-guide/

08/23/2026

Youth football and cheer returned to Roger Scarborough Stadium Saturday as the Heartland Titans played their first home games of the 2026 season. Here’s a look at the organization, its community support and the home schedule ahead.

The Heartland Titans returned to Roger Scarborough Stadium Saturday for their first home games of the 2026 season, bringing youth football and cheer to the

08/22/2026

08/22/2026

Notice anything different in the Publix express lane lately? If you thought something had changed, you were right.

If you’ve been to Publix lately and noticed something different about the express lane, it’s not your imagination. Publix has done away with the

08/22/2026

Saturday plans? We’ve got a new one for you!

The Lake Placid Titans are bringing youth football home with a full day of games TODAY - Saturday at Roger Scarborough Stadium. Gates open at 8 a.m., kickoff is at 9.

Come out and support Lake Placid young people and the volunteers that make these youth activities possible!

08/22/2026

Tough loss. 35-22 Lemon Bay prevails.

Good fight Dragons! Safe travels home.