As any mother will confirm, it takes much longer to prepare Thanksgiving dinner than it takes to eat it. ...more

October 28, 2009

Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath. A brief levee break that swamped a school provided a warning of the kind of threat that still hangs over them in the days ahead. ...more

March 29, 2009

A concerned stepdaughter, sympathetic restaurateurs and a good friend have joined forces to make sure New Port Richey resident Kay Beal, 81, gets her Christmas dinner. ...more

December 24, 2008

A concerned stepdaughter, sympathetic restaurateurs and a good friend have joined forces to make sure New Port Richey resident Kay Beal, 81, gets her Christmas dinner. ...more

December 24, 2008

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Whisper Lake Community and The First Assembly of God Church on Kenilworth Drive, Sebring, for their generous donations and good wishes for the Sebring Good Shepherd Hospice, a few local nursing homes and for 100 children sick in Charlotte, N.C., and some of their families who are staying in one of the Ronald McDonald houses. ...more

December 6, 2008

The Avon Park Wal-Mart Supercenter is scheduled to open today. After months of delays, the doors to Highlands County's second Supercenter - and fourth Wal-Mart in the county's history - will open at 8 a.m. after a 7:30 grand opening ceremony. ...more

August 13, 2008

Its lawn and garden center has a drive-thru loading area for customers picking up plants, stone, mulch and other landscaping supplies. ...more

August 10, 2008

Politics is many things, including the art of compromise, the creator of peculiar bedfellows and, as famously observed by Ronald Reagan, "the second oldest profession," one that "bears a very close resemblance to the first." ...more

June 12, 2008

A light rain had started to fall as the three white caskets — one for Lisa Freiberg and two smaller ones for her young children — were brought out of the church and taken toward the waiting black limousine. ...more

May 18, 2008

I would like to give praise to the First Assembly of God Church on Kenilworth Boulevard. I went to church there on Sunday for the first time, and they were having a special program, which was Tommy Brandt in concert. Anyone who hasn't heard this young man sing and minister to people through his music should make it a point to see him when he is in Sebring again. A big thank you goes out to the church for having him at their services. ...more

December 15, 2007