Following on the success of last year's Holiday Festival in the Park, Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce organizers are hoping for an even bigger hit with the second event. ...more

November 23, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - As part of the school's 30th anniversary celebration this year, Bertha Juanpere was named the queen of Pine View Middle School. She was given a crown and a cake and appeared as guest of honor at a school pep rally. ...more

November 23, 2008

Following on the success of last year's Holiday Festival in the Park, Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce organizers are hoping for an even bigger hit with the second annual event. ...more

November 19, 2008

Turns out Democratic primary loser Hillary Rodham Clinton will get time to shine at the party's national convention after all - and quite a bit of it. ...more

August 15, 2008

As the crowd of doctors and teachers, of retired couples and young professionals made its way into the downtown building by the train station, the large ballroom started to come alive. ...more

May 2, 2008

Spirit Of Christmas Lives On Monday evening, after enjoying a thoroughly entertaining Las Vegas-type variety show by Tony Orlando & Company (including the real Santa Claus) at the Show Palace Dinner Theater in Hudson, I met Betty Batzlaff from Zephyrhills. She was a very pretty lady, attractively dressed, with a delightfully charming personality who lit up the room with her smile and her eyes. I noticed she was almost the last person to leave the theater and offered my assistance with getting up and out of her chair. She graciously accepted and informed me that she was waiting patiently with the hope to meet Tony Orlando. She wanted to tell him all of the happiness he had brought into her life throughout the years with his music and variety shows; and, yes, she had seen his show in Las Vegas years before. ...more

December 30, 2007

The Hernando Builders Association honored its past presidents and enjoyed a holiday general membership meeting on Monday, Dec 3, at the Silverthorn Golf and Country Club in Brooksville. ...more

December 12, 2007

In her classroom Friday morning, Hudson Elementary Head Start prekindergarten teacher Karen Ross had big news for her students. ...more

December 8, 2007

I survived another Thanksgiving with all the trimmings. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage has outdone herself once again with our Thanksgiving dinner. I still do not know how she accomplishes this feat. Each year her dinner is more fabulous than the last. ...more

November 22, 2007

On 10 November 1775, the Marine Corps was founded in Tun Tavern in Philadelphia. This was before the United States became a free country. Since that time, Marines have fought in every war that the United States has been engaged and usually it is the first to fight. ...more

November 22, 2007