West Pasco Habitat for Humanity was awarded a $6,000 grant from Bank of America on Wednesday. ...more

November 22, 2008

West Pasco Habitat for Humanity was awarded a $6,000 grant from Bank of America on Wednesday. Bank officials visited the Habitat office, 3531 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey, to present a check to organization representatives. ...more

November 20, 2008

Habitat for Humanity is looking for five women to lead a supervisory team that will help build a home for Andrew and Chrysti Puckett and their two children. ...more

November 19, 2008

About 30 people stood in the drizzling rain Saturday morning to break ground on a new habitat for Humanity home. ...more

November 17, 2008

Just Junk Franchising Corp. has announced that Jacksonville will be home to the first Just Junk franchise in the United States. ...more

November 16, 2008

Over the past two and a half weeks, Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County has had a surge in new volunteers. ...more

November 9, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The boxes, filled with Cheerios, Jell-O, Ramen noodles, spaghetti and all manner of canned goods, were carried from the guidance counselor's area at Pine View Middle School out to two large pickups in the parking lot. ...more

November 8, 2008

When the Sunday morning political pundits began talking last year about the tab for the war in Iraq hitting $1 trillion, Rob Simpson sprang from his sofa in indignation. ...more

October 27, 2008

People who put faith in government to solve national or even individual problems are headed for deep disappointment, if it hasn't already arrived. Still, that doesn't stop politicians from attempting to sell political snake oil to the gullible. No one ever lost money betting on the ignorance of the uninformed masses. ...more

October 22, 2008

SEBRING -- Penne Manar says she still gets goose bumps when she recalls how, seven years ago, she came to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County. She balked at a friend's invitation to join this non-profit, Christian faith-based organization that helps hard working people work and save their way into a new home that otherwise would be unreachable. Nearing the end of two years as volunteer president of the Florida Hospital Auxiliary, Manar worried that joining another service organization would stretch her time and energy too thin. But she accepted an invitation to attend a Habitat home dedication. Manar watched as a single mother with three young children, having saved the down payment and completed her 400 hours of "sweat equity" work, was given a Bible and house keys and became a first-time homeowner. ...more

October 19, 2008