TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Students in James DellaSalla's sixth-grade science class immersed themselves in ecosystems and more last month for a class science fair at Pierce Middle School. DellaSalla asked them to create a display related to research they conducted. Students built ecosystems out of plastic animals or crafted displays related to cells, oceans, dinosaurs, minerals and the solar system. ...more

May 20, 2009

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Students in James DellaSalla's sixth-grade science class immersed themselves in ecosystems and more last month for a class science fair at Pierce Middle School. DellaSalla asked them to create a display related to research they conducted. Students built ecosystems out of plastic animals or crafted displays related to cells, oceans, dinosaurs, minerals and the solar system. ...more

May 20, 2009

Up until 2009, Lake Placid has enjoyed clean, unpolluted air as there are no smokestack industries that I am aware of. This has attracted senior mobile home parks as well as senior assisted living facilities to the area. But now the Highlands County Commissioners have decided to change that by giving permission for an ethanol producing plant to locate near U.S. 27 and S.R. 70 just south of Lake Placid (about six and a half miles.) This is one of the worst polluting industries in the country. Even if they agree to install some anti-pollution measures, as everyone knows it would be cheaper for them to pay fines and-or bribe authorities than it would be to install very expensive, adequate anti-pollution equipment. ...more

January 3, 2009

Time is money, but so is water. ...more

October 4, 2008

NASA's Phoenix Mars lander was not the only one doing the shaking. ...more

June 12, 2008