Play to win, but have fun doing it. That's how Rex "Scooter" Ballenger Jr., East Bay High's 5-foot-9-inch quarterback, lived life on the field and off, said his coach, teammates and father. Each spoke today at the school about how they are leaning on each other and trying to find something positive in the young man's death. ...more

May 20, 2008

A gourmet chef who practices her culinary artistry in the wine-loving region of Tuscany will make a three-day visit to Southern Hills Plantation this week. ...more

February 7, 2008

Gourmet Italian chef demonstrates her culinary skills at Southern Hills Plantation this week. ...more

February 6, 2008

It's decision time. Today, the Hernando County School Board will vote on the location of the county's future gifted education center for kindergarten through eighth grade students. ...more

February 5, 2008

Today, the Hernando County School Board will vote on the location of the county's future gifted education center for kindergarten through eighth grade students. ...more

February 4, 2008

It's time. Today marks the long-awaited day more than 1,000 local student applicants will be assigned random numbers by computer for the lottery drawings to get into Hernando County's magnet schools of Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics, Chocachatti Elementary and Nature Coast Technical High School. ...more

January 25, 2008

It's time. Today marks the long-awaited day more than 1,000 local student applicants will be assigned random numbers by computer for the lottery drawings to get into Hernando County's magnet schools of Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics, Chocachatti Elementary and Nature Coast Technical High School. ...more

January 24, 2008

If everything goes as planned, there will be a referendum on the ballot next November in which St. Petersburg residents will decide whether to allow the Rays to build a new stadium on the downtown waterfront. ...more

November 28, 2007

These days, life moves so fast, and we are all so busy, it has become necessary to plan farther and farther in advance to make anything happen. At least in part, this is because we have somehow developed the need to make every occasion a major production. Compulsion to "wow" those who attend has robbed us of most of the spontaneity, and, in my opinion, much of the joy of special occasions. ...more

November 25, 2007

They'll begin kicking doors at a hotel in Tupelo, Miss., at 6:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time today. University of Florida coaches will barge into players' rooms, fling the curtains open wide and welcome the Gators to game day. Then, in a meeting room, bleary-eyed players will sit for breakfast, where they'll get protein, carbohydrates and one supplement not available at your local GNC. ...more

September 22, 2007