After being closed for four years, the former Ruskin Farmers Market reopened today with an old look and a new name. Starting out small, it's now called the Ruskin Community Market and organizers hopes it grows into a major people attractor for Ruskin. ...more

March 28, 2009

A North Port man faces felony charges for an alleged drunken attack on a group of teenagers, according to a police report. ...more

January 23, 2009

You can't make this stuff up. On Thursday, as armed guards kept the media from a meeting between the board that operates the city's zoo and its about-to-be-canned director, the about-to-be-canned director's wife was charged with animal cruelty for, authorities said, leaving two dogs alone in a car for more than two hours. ...more

December 21, 2008

Talk about your bittersweet moments. Earlier this summer, a Citrus Park man and his son were pleasantly surprised when their public access television show beat out five competitors to take first place in the entertainment programming category during a Tampa Bay Community Network awards ceremony. ...more

September 3, 2008

Talk about your bittersweet moments. Earlier this summer, a Citrus Park man and his son were delightfully surprised when they learned their public access television show beat out five competitors to take first place in the entertainment programming category during a Tampa Bay Community Network awards ceremony. ...more

August 20, 2008

If you haven't heard the names Swamp Thang, Sweat Thang or Miss Billie Waide's Bread and Butter Pickles, you haven't been spending nearly enough time in Ruskin. ...more

July 30, 2008

If you haven't heard the names Swamp Thang, Sweat Thang or Miss Billie Waide's Bread and Butter Pickles, you haven't been spending nearly enough time in Ruskin. ...more

July 30, 2008

A redneck was stopped by a game warden in Central Mississippi recently with two ice chests full of fish. He was leaving a cove well-known for its fishing. The game warden asked the man: "Do you have a license to catch those fish?" "Nawsir" replied the redneck. "I ain't got none of them there licenses. You must understand these here are my pet fish." "Pet fish?" ...more

January 31, 2008

Before the white boys would let Johnny Lloyd ride their ponies at Wilson's Horse Arena, he usually received a hard pummeling for being black. ...more

October 21, 2007