Pooches and their owners are invited to a scary-good Halloween event in South Shore. ...more

October 21, 2009

Trash Cans Are A Sign We just got a card in the mail today from folks wanting to stop the Dade City landfill and dump. I wonder if the people backing the card I got put out trash cans twice a week for the garbage man to pick up? And I wonder if these same folks recycle all their plastic, metal cans, glass, clippings, limbs, etc. and either take it to the recycler or put it in the blue bags twice a month. Until everyone in the Dade City area recycles almost all of their waste, there will be a need for a dump. Every house I see with a sign in the yard that says to vote "no" on the Dade City landfill, without exception, has giant garbage cans in the driveway or on the side yard. None I have seen have had a blue bag out front on their scheduled days for recycling pickup, and I only look when I am going on an errand. ...more

January 25, 2009

With all the talk of newspapers being replaced by the Web, what am I to do? ...more

January 9, 2009

Dear Abby: I am happily married, but all my life I have yearned for a close and sisterly relationship with my mother and my sisters. We are very different people, but a kind and understanding female relative is what I have always wished for. ...more

December 21, 2008

When I was a little girl, I learned the ailments for which my mother considered milk of magnesia a cure. I kept those aches to myself because the cure was surely worse. I was greatly impressed recently to learn that two tablespoons of the nasty-tasting stuff mixed with a quart of club soda can be used to preserve newsprint. ...more

December 7, 2008

Most people are thankful to have their parents and children in the same house for Thanksgiving, but one local family has a five-generation Turkey Day tradition that started in the 1950s and is still going strong. ...more

November 27, 2008

TAMPA - While searching a Riverview home Tuesday afternoon, Hillsborough County deputies found a 4-foot marijuana plant under a grow light and marijuana clippings in an entertainment center, deputies say. ...more

July 16, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Six Lake Placid residents of Cuban citizenship were arrested Thursday in three separate growhouse busts by the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. ...more

February 23, 2008