The Herald-Advocate

06/18/2025

https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/news/district-considering-moving-graduation-indoors/article_96291916-1a31-4673-8f0a-2fdbd8e99957.html

District administration is investigating options for moving graduation to a new location, including an option that would have Hardee Senior High School graduate at the Turner Center in Arcadia.

06/12/2025

https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/news/denise-grimsley-to-step-down-from-ida-leadership/article_30514ce5-457c-4a43-afc8-5499da6d4086.html

Denise Grimsley informed the Hardee County Industrial Development Authority (IDA) board Thursday morning she intends to retire as the CEO of the economic development organization in October.

05/22/2025

Graduation Day Photos Available Online. Click the "BUY NOW" option at the bottom of the photo to purchase a print or digital copy.

DIPLOMA PRESENTATION PART 1: https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/multimedia/2025-graduation-diploma-presentation-part-1/collection_a0106b70-82ca-479a-bb76-7b960beac21f.html

DIPLOMA PRESENTATION PART 2: https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/multimedia/2025-graduation-diploma-presentation-part-2/collection_ba7fba10-737f-41c8-aeee-65efde07b544.html

CEREMONY: https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/multimedia/2025-graduation-ceremony/collection_44451697-0250-4877-ae35-5629e0599045.html

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05/20/2025

https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/news/jail-inmate-strangles-cellmate/article_eadea4e2-889b-4ca2-969c-6cb4b415260e.html

An inmate at the Hardee County Jail was strangled by his cellmate with a bedsheet.

05/19/2025

Photos of Saturday's diploma presentation are now available online: https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/multimedia/2025-graduation-diploma-presentation-part-1/collection_a0106b70-82ca-479a-bb76-7b960beac21f.html and https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/multimedia/2025-graduation-diploma-presentation-part-2/collection_ba7fba10-737f-41c8-aeee-65efde07b544.html

05/14/2025

https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/news/sheriff-s-office-hits-road-block/article_aa1de961-6efd-41db-abbe-e30251aafb69.html

Plans to construct a new sheriff’s office and jail complex along U.S. 17 drove into a roadblock on Monday night when Wauchula officials tabled a request to designate the proposed

05/13/2025

https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/news/after-having-probation-reinstated-suspect-arrested-in-stabbing-five-days-later/article_8c2e7561-3d21-4f19-a1c8-88de4fe7968b.html

A man released from jail last Wednesday after a judge reinstated his probation, was arrested less than a week later after a stabbing at a trailer park in Wauchula on

05/01/2025

https://www.theheraldadvocate.com/news/former-principal-transferred-to-prison-as-appeals-lawyer-seeks-new-bond/article_cb85239d-9ce1-4dde-810c-74e16944b083.html

The Wauchula grandmother and former elementary principal convicted in the hot-car death of her granddaughter is now in prison as lawyers are seeking a new bond as they appeal her sentence.

04/17/2025

04/03/2025

Tracey Nix was sentenced Thursday to spend the next five years in state prison for leaving her 7-month-old granddaughter to bake to death in a hot car.

04/03/2025

Nix sentenced to 5 years in prison

04/03/2025

Tracey Nix testifies at her sentencing.