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November 6, 2009

Super Bowl fever is swallowing Tampa, it seems, to the point you can't enter a grocery store without being confronted by a football stadium made with canned chili. ...more

January 29, 2009

As so many of you gentle readers know all too well, this space feels absolutely terrible whenever the sensibilities of one of you may be offended by something I have written. ...more

June 22, 2008

SEBRING — When Helen Bogus first brought her dog Kelly into her home in December, she never knew how many dogs she truly adopted. Even when the Golf Hammock resident heard the news from veterinarian Wendell Anderson that Kelly was pregnant, she was not ready to have puppies. When Jan. 14 came, however, Bogus and Highlands County Humane Society board member Barbara Clark spent all night with the golden retriever/Irish setter mix-breed and several kids in the neighborhood as they helped with Kelly's labor. "We just wanted Kelly," Bogus said. "We really just wanted one dog but we ended up with 14." ...more

January 31, 2008