Local anti-drug organization attracts kids, teens to event with skits, music, games and fun. ...more

July 13, 2008

DUNEDIN - Next month, city commissioners could decide whether to revise the city's noise ordinance to regulate amplified music in the city's downtown entertainment district. The City Commission will hold hearings on the proposed ordinance at 7 p.m. on Aug. 7 and Aug. 21. ...more

July 12, 2008

DUNEDIN -- The latest attempt by the city to regulate amplified music in and around the downtown entertainment district will be debated Wednesday night by the Local Planning Agency. ...more

July 7, 2008

Really, I thought I would have grown up by now. I mean, in most respects, I have. I'm married. I have a job. And a mortgage. And a minivan. ...more

June 26, 2008

No, he's not Randy Jackson, "American Idol" judge - although he has met that Jackson while touring. ...more

June 4, 2008

AVON PARK — The City Council heard some noise from a resident complaining about people blasting their stereos all over the city, and agreed that the existing noise ordinance wasn't enough to mute them. The council asked City Attorney Gerald Buhr and Police Chief Matthew Doughney to figure a way to increase the penalties for playing loud music, after Charles Devlin said that he could hear them across Lake Tulane most weekends. "Every single night without exceptions you hear loud music," Devlin told the council. ...more

May 28, 2008

AVON PARK - The city council heard some noise from a resident complaining about people blasting their stereos all over the city, and agreed that the existing noise ordinance wasn't enough to mute them. The council asked City Attorney Gerald Buhr and Police Chief Matthew Doughney to figure a way to increase the penalties for playing loud music, after Charles Devlin said that he could hear them across Lake Tulane most weekends. ...more

May 27, 2008

TAMPA - In an age-old conflict between the pursuit of happiness and the right to remain undisturbed, the Sarasota City Commission last night sided with the undisturbed. The commission stiffened penalties for drivers of vehicles with loud sound systems that can cause alarms to go off in nearby parked cars, dogs to bark and older drivers to cringe. ...more

May 20, 2008

Quick! Everyone PANIC! Mother's Day is this Sunday! Is it not enough that this woman carried you for nine months while you stole every last nutrient from her weak, swollen body? Is it not enough that she went through pain like no human should ever experience just to bear you? Is it not enough that she endured your rebellious, pimpled, teenage years of loud music, sarcasm and secret tattoos with a smile and a "That's lovely, dear"? ...more

May 6, 2008

AVON PARK — It's Friday, about 11 a.m. Two SUVs drive up, and five people get out. There's no sign outside identifying the name of the business to G&R Supermarket, in one of Avon Park's sketchiest neighborhoods. It's the sort of place that looks scary, but the people were companionable. For 30 minutes, Anthony Lomonico parked his maroon Cadillac Escalade in the Lacey Hills neighborhood of southeast Avon Park and tried to call a friend on his cell phone, but with no success. There were several men on the street, some just standing there looking at the cars, wondering what was going on. ...more

January 26, 2008