LAND O' LAKES - These race cars are fashioned from a block of wood, four plastic wheels and four nails. ...more

July 7, 2008

The Tampa Bay Rays will hold a free block party from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 5 at Macfarlane Park, 1700 N. MacDill Ave. ...more

June 28, 2008

Nearly 30 million Americans travel with pets, so it's no wonder dog beaches are popular. ...more

June 16, 2008

The city's 22nd Street Park remains on the table, but parks and recreation officials are broadening their search for a location for three proposed football fields. ...more

June 7, 2008

I am writing in reference to an article in the Highlands Today, May 30: "The first chop of Highlands County's budget-cutting axe fell Thursday. It fell on the proverbial neck of Highlands County Sports Complex, manger Rocky Ellingsworth." This is an outrage! The Highlands County Commission all but promised citizens that the sports complex would be proactively managed, and that a manager would be responsible for keeping the operational costs of the sports complex to a minimum. Let me remind you that about 50 percent of all operational costs were to be recovered from user fees and recreational concession stand profits. While as a taxpayer, I feel that the sports complex was built with little community support, and with little support from taxpayers, the "powers that be" decided that it was a worthy project and spent the money anyway. Yes, a large grant paid for a majority of the construction project. ...more

June 2, 2008

SEBRING — Tyler Shingle picked up a bowling ball at his brother's birthday party at the bowling alley and decided he might like the sport. Less than a year later, he took first place in the 2008 Florida Pepsi Youth Championship, beating out more than 800 other bowlers. "We never knew where he stood in the rankings all day, but we knew he was having a great day," said his dad Rodney Shingle. "When we found out he won the whole thing, we almost fell over. We couldn't believe it." ...more

May 26, 2008

This season Friends of Music on the Beach will play host to an almost endless summer of concerts in 2008. The popular monthly series of Thursday evening concerts at Sunset Beach, at the western end of Gulf Road, in Tarpon Springs, is expanding to 10 shows. ...more

February 23, 2008

Had John Tortorella sat in the stands of Tuesday's game instead of coaching from behind the Tampa Bay bench, the ice might have been littered with concession-stand fare or even a rotten vegetable or two. ...more

January 16, 2008

Looking for something different to do on a Friday night in Oldsmar? Instead of going out to a movie, try really going out to a movie. At 6:30 p.m. Friday, the city's Leisure Services Department and its parks division will launch its Movies in the Park series at R.E. Olds Park. ...more

January 5, 2008

Among the galaxy of lights at Christmas Lane, one thing shone the brightest in her eyes and caught her attention. ...more

December 23, 2007