Already in a new location at 2190 Lakeview Drive, Gilbert Drugs' owners Jack and Patricia Kasmer will seek a $1,350 façade grant at today's Community Redevelopment Agency meeting for three new Norman Rockwell-style murals. ...more

November 9, 2009

Nearly five years ago, as ground was being broken on the Main Street Landing construction site, city officials at the time looked forward to March 2009. That's when, if all went as planned, the Community Redevelopment Agency would have happily presented a $1.25 million check to Gainesville-based developer Ken McGurn if the Mediterranean-styled commercial-residential development was significantly built out and half the units leased or sold. March 2009 has arrived, and McGurn met March 10 with City Council, which was acting in its role as CRA board. Instead of a grip-and-grin check presentation, the two sides were meeting to figure out what they might do to restore a now-strained business relationship and get the project moving again. ...more

March 18, 2009

The Community Redevelopment Agency was scheduled to review three façade grant applications Dec. 9, but two more were added to the agenda during the meeting when the First Missionary Baptist Church requested two emergency grants. ...more

December 16, 2008

If there's one thing the first four games of the World Series established, it's that the Phillies did an exceptional job compiling scouting reports on the Rays. ...more

October 28, 2008

A Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency façade grant helped Larry and Rachel Moore add a back deck and driveway to their Rose Avenue home they purchased about three years ago. ...more

September 9, 2008

Despite a demolition order and looming fines for its owner, the fate of the former Gary Adult High School appears to be as shaky as the remnants of the 95-year-old brick building itself. ...more

August 28, 2008

The city council has OK'd a rezoning allowing for a three-story, Mediterranean-style law office in the neighborhood's historic district. ...more

August 27, 2008

AL GREEN: LAY IT DOWN (BLUE NOTE) **½ Al Green's previous two albums, 2003's "I Can't Stop" and 2005's "Everything's OK," were faithful recreations of the singer's classic '70s sound. Problem was, they sounded like faithful recreations - the pieces were in place but the songs and performances seemed as if they were tiptoeing to keep the façade from collapsing. ...more

July 31, 2008

If you can stand (and generate) the heat, you can whip up a dandy stir-fry. ...more

July 29, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- Makai Kayak & Kanoe, on the section of Main Street between U.S. 19 and the Pithlachascotee River known as the Palm District, is celebrating its first anniversary. ...more

July 26, 2008