Donations for the Tillman family, who recently lost work tools and family heirlooms in a fire that consumed two outbuildings on their rental property, can donate camping equipment, fishing equipment, Christmas items, Legos for their son or gift cards, said Terri Wolfgram. Items can be dropped off at Lorida Produce, 1564 US 98 (at the corner of Arbuckle Creek Road and 98 in Lorida). Store hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. ...more

March 12, 2009

Plenty of bargains and discounts were awaiting customers early Friday morning, but the crowds retailers were hoping for didn't materialize. ...more

December 27, 2008

A thrift store with a unique mission will kick off its holiday season Tuesday with a shopping extravaganza. ...more

December 3, 2008

Shopping the day after Christmas this year was no Black Friday, when throngs of bargain hunters lined up in pre-dawn hours. ...more

December 27, 2007

BRANDON - Shopping the day after Christmas was no Black Friday as throngs of bargain hunters lined up in pre-dawn hours. ...more

December 26, 2007

Back in the days when man first ventured out of the caves and celebrated the occasion by giving thanks to the Great Spirit the people vowed that the preparation time for their holidays would be limited to some reasonable amount of time. Like perhaps the cycle of one moon, which many eons later was called a month and many eons after that they were given a name: As in October which is what the moon cycle before the one when thanks was given to the Great Spirit and out of which our country's first displaced inhabitants evolved. And many eons after that first giving of thanks the Great Spirit returned the recognition of his people by rewarding them with a special gift of his own. A man-child. The appearance of this gift held such significance for the people that they name a day after it. They called it Christmas. Now when the two things are considered – limiting preparations to no more than on a lunar cycle and the acceptance of the gift of the Great Spirit – it would appear that the preparations for Christmas should occur at the earliest around the time that the feast of thanksgiving is celebrated. And for many years this is how it came to pass. ...more

October 20, 2007