When Bonnie Krummer and the rest of the staff at Center State Bank decided to fill the Christmas list for two dozen teens from Florida Baptist Children's Homes' Lakeland campus, they were shocked by what the kids requested. ...more

December 23, 2009

A Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputy was honored 100 years after he was killed in the line of duty. ...more

May 2, 2009

Art Hernden was 15 and conspicuously open to suggestion. Oh, sure, like most of his peers growing up within the penumbra of Detroit astride the World War II globe, his imagination was powered by the internal combustion engine and all that could be linked to it. ...more

March 15, 2009

The thing about the Back Porch Stage, a narrow patch of unpaved possibility between Higgins Hall and Clayton Auditorium - the unfortunate thing, really - is that you pretty much have to be going there to get there. ...more

February 20, 2009

It turns out the little city on the ridge is every bit as much a state of mind as it is a real-world town with real-world concerns. In fact, these apparent contradictions constitute a textbook example of cognitive dissonance - the ability to entertain, simultaneously, conflicting attitudes. ...more

January 14, 2009

On the morning before the school's biggest football game in nearly a generation, Pasco High's placekicker sports a nose to match his influence on the portion of the field inside the opponent's 20-yard line. ...more

December 12, 2008

Spent the better part of a long afternoon in the county seat Wednesday, hoping to catch a serious case of old-fashioned small-town state-playoffs high-school-football fever. Came away without so much as a sniffle. ...more

December 5, 2008

The heart of the campaign season brings lots of questions, some terrific, some irrelevant, most of them pertaining to the issues at hand. Consider the race for Pasco County schools superintendent, in which two bright, accomplished and politically savvy candidates are in a showdown over nothing less than the trajectory of public education in Florida's 11th-largest school district. ...more

October 24, 2008

Two things, and only two things, are off-limits in the examination of Rose Fernandez's life: "My age and my weight. I don't discuss them." Otherwise, her experiences, decisions, associations, philosophies and maybe even - assuming one thought to ask - shoe size are open for inspection. ...more

October 22, 2008

The PTA at Pasco Middle School is presenting a mystery dinner theater and auction at 6 p.m. Oct. 4 at Tampa Bay Golf and Country Club in San Antonio. ...more

September 26, 2008