Visitors this week probably have noticed that the locals get a little annoyed when someone refers to where we live as Tampa Bay. If you ask directions and don't keep moving, you'll get the lecture about Tampa being the city and the other one that body of water we pay exorbitant prices to live by. ...more

January 28, 2009

At 10 on a recent morning, seven white homing pigeons auditioned for the role of a lifetime. ...more

January 4, 2009

Walt Postma, a New Port Richey man, provides the pigeons that play a key role, that of a dove, during the annual Epiphany Celebration in Tarpon Springs. ...more

January 3, 2009

Ioana Bociu tried to remain calm after finding out she had been accorded a great honor for a young woman of the Greek Orthodox faith in Tarpon Springs. "I'm not one to jump up and down, but I was smiling," the 18-year-old Bociu said. "I was jumping up and down inside." Bociu will be the dove bearer at Tarpon Springs' 102nd observance of the Feast of the Epiphany this Tuesday, Jan. 6. ...more

January 2, 2009

I don't know much about gospel music. So when I got the call eight years ago that Dottie Rambo was coming to town, I said something stupid like, "Who?" ...more

May 24, 2008

Roy Lidbom will preach his last sermon at Faith Lutheran Church Sunday. ...more

May 10, 2008

Nick Kavouklis recognized the fist as it emerged from the murky bayou and knew right away his son had won one of the highest honors in the Greek Orthodox community. ...more

January 6, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS - Thousands of people are gathered at the Spring Bayou today for the Greek Orthodox community's annual Epiphany celebration, the highlight of which is when dozens of teenage boys dive into the bayou and pluck out a blessed cross. ...more

January 6, 2008

One of the biggest needs of our people today is to study God's Holy Word. From the beginning this was God's plan. As our Heavenly Father, we are to be obedient to him because He is an all-wise God, the God of creation. He instructed us to teach His laws to our children when we get up and when we lie down. To do that we have to live it before them 24-7. This is a tedious process which requires prayer and dependence upon the Holy Spirit, but Oh! what a joy to walk with the Master. There are so many wonderful promises in His Holy Word, but they are conditional. ...more

December 13, 2007

TAMPA - Retired Bishop John Lipscomb is leaving the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida to join the Catholic Church. ...more

November 21, 2007