It will be a big - and busy - day for Santa Claus on Saturday in Lake Placid. ...more

December 12, 2008

An investment firm, furniture store, tree farm, grocer and workshop for disabled adults were recently named businesses of the year in Plant City. ...more

November 26, 2008

An investment firm, furniture store, tree farm, grocer and workshop for disabled adults have been named businesses of the year in Plant City. ...more

November 7, 2008

"I think Sean might be dead," the girlfriend said. Mike and Deb Gilbert were teaching a class at Grace Family Church in Lutz when they got the phone call in late July a year ago. Sean was their youngest child, 18 years old, beautiful and troubled. ...more

August 16, 2008

TAMPA The long-awaited opening of the IKEA store moved forward today with a groundbreaking in which city officials and IKEA executives glad-handed and back-slapped one another, all the while marveling at what a wonderful fit Tampa is for the Swedish furniture store. ...more

June 4, 2008

LAKE PLACID – The Lake Placid Board of Realtors recently sponsored an old-fashioned dance-a-thon at the Lake Placid American Legion Post 25 to benefit two local not-for-profit organizations – the Humane Society of Highlands County and the Lake Placid Miracle League. The dance was held to benefit the Humane Society of Highlands County, whose mission is to provide shelter, medical care and adoption services to lost, homeless and unwanted companion animals, and the Lake Placid Miracle League, a newly organized youth baseball league for physically and mentally hindered youths who are paired with "Buddies" who help the athletes take the field and cope with the challenges of playing the game. Themed in the 60's and 70's, the 261 party-goers entered a long-ago past complete with fiber-optic lamps, peace beads, 45 rpm record decorations, disco ball, and hula hoops. Many guests reached into the back of their closets, or their parents' closet, and looked as if they could have just stepped off the Partridge Family bus. ...more

February 3, 2008