For some 18 years, Willy's Tropical Breeze has been selling food and cold drinks to beach-goers at Pine Island. ...more

February 21, 2009

The Chevrolet dealership that replaced Bill Heard at Interstate 4 and Park Road came out of the starting gate with a bang, leading all but two locations in the number of Chevy sales during the first week of January. ...more

January 21, 2009

Things To Do is a list of some interesting upcoming events. Today Kitty Korner ...more

November 12, 2008

The Kumquat Chronicles continue. In my July 23 column, I featured a letter from Elaine Bolack of Lutz, who was requesting a kumquat marmalade recipe. ...more

August 6, 2008

Laden with lawn chairs, tents, umbrellas and coolers filled with cold drinks and snacks, an estimated 5,000 people traveled by car, bicycle, golf cart and on foot to watch the city's annual Fourth of July parade. ...more

July 12, 2008

AVON PARK — Just in case they haven't been paying attention to the news, Judy Puffen gave high school students a personal account of what Iraq is like: frequent sandstorms, constant danger, grinding poverty, unvarying boredom. "Please let me come home before I die," former Sgt. 1st Class Puffen said she would think. She was one of the first American soldiers to go there after Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced in 2003. "It was all sand over there," she said. "The first thing I wanted to do when I got home was kiss the grass. It was like biblical times. The houses were made of adobe — mud." "What kind of weapon did you carry," asked one student in Amy Love's American History class. "An M-16," Puffen said, a 22-year veteran. Even though her job was administrative and financial, she carried a rifle. ...more

February 23, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS - Fire prevention will be the theme of an open house at Station 70 on Saturday. ...more

October 2, 2007