Land O' Lakes resident Phil Digristina called a company recently to replace his roof and got a quick response. Negotiating the terms of the deal was a lot easier than past experiences, too. ...more

March 29, 2009

Forty-seven-year veteran Boy Scout leader John F. Miller smiled broadly when he talked about cooking peach cobbler in a cast iron skillet. ...more

October 20, 2008

So this past weekend I saw the new Batman movie. I have been a Batman fan since I was watching reruns of Adam West in my Underoos. ...more

July 23, 2008

Pewter Presley, a k a George Bussman, started dressing like Elvis after former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Shawn King took over quarterback duties from former Buc Trent Dilfer. He noticed that many fans were wearing Burger King crowns in honor of King. ...more

December 12, 2007

In just one hour Wednesday afternoon, 97 patrons of Danny Boy's Restaurant in Sun City Center signed a petition asking that Debra Lafave return to work. ...more

December 7, 2007

There's a little nomad in all of us. And the concept of carrying your home with you as you travel still has a central appeal, as evidenced by the tens of millions of Americans who leave behind their air conditioning, HDTV and e-mail hookups to trek off to the woods each year. (Though, these days, thanks to air-cards, both the accursed e-mail and the Internet may be only as far away as a squeal of the modem.) ...more

November 2, 2007

It was just before sunrise when the folks from the woodland town of Palmhaven began arriving at Clearwater Creek for a weekend of country fun. The annual Palmhaven Creekside Holiday was finally under way as the campground area under the oak trees and cabbage palms was filling up with tents of every size and shape. Some lean-to's were being constructed while campers and old Airstreams were rolled into place and everyone busied themselves with setting up and settling in for an extended stay. With no hurricanes approaching and the early summer swarms of mosquitoes subsided, Mayor Ormond Hoosegow declared this weekend the official start of the town's jubilee and no one was left out or behind. ...more

September 2, 2007