as far as Floridians are concerned - have been quiet. ...more

August 19, 2008

The Emergency Operations Center will be staffed by emergency management staff only. The phone lines will be open at the Public Information Center all day today. When the center was opened Monday morning, volunteers fielded 71 calls in three hours. ...more

August 19, 2008

Monday was a day to hurry up and wait as officials prepared for whatever Tropical Storm Fay brings to Hernando County. ...more

August 19, 2008

Sunday's Forecast Has The Storm Hitting Landfall North Of Hernando County ...more

August 18, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay killed four people during the weekend - and that was before it had pelted Cuba and reemerged as a Category 1 hurricane. ...more

August 18, 2008

Steamlining would eliminate director's title. ...more

July 22, 2008

The county's streamlining tendrils have snaked into yet another department and entwined the emergency management department. ...more

July 22, 2008

AFTER GETTING $40,871 PAYOFF FROM HERNANDO COUNTY ...more

July 5, 2008

The faithful gathered for church services Sunday in towns hard-hit by flooding along the Mississippi River, and many found comfort in word that the swollen waterway had apparently started to hit its high point. ...more

June 23, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Two Highlands County employees were treated in what appeared to be an Africanized bee attack Monday afternoon, multiple county officials said. Parks and recreation maintenance workers Jason Gonzalez and Tim Neese ran nearly half a mile from a tree at 1501 Lake Clay Drive, Lake Placid, crossing a bridge and a canal to escape the swarm, Highlands County Emergency Management Director Bill Nichols said. After they escaped the bees, Gonzalez and Neese tried to return for their lawn mowers, but the bees went after them again, stinging Gonzalez three or four times. Neese couldn't count how many of them hit him. ...more

June 16, 2008