PLANT CITY Plant City commissioners recently joined their counterparts on other government bodies recognizing Oct. 5-11 as Mental Illness Awareness Week. ...more

October 3, 2008

After marrying a Tampa girl, building a house and starting a business I felt sufficiently settled to offer my services as a community volunteer. Online research identified a local group where I felt my experience might be an asset. ...more

September 11, 2008

Angelo Hadley has never been a headliner. It's the unfortunate price he's paid for being a football player at Armwood. ...more

August 12, 2008

Shortly after the Bucs finished their morning training session at the Disney Wide World of Sports complex, 10 members of the Bucs cheerleading squad heald a camp for a group of about 30 youth cheerleaders. ...more

July 27, 2008

A new survey by real estate company Colliers International shows downtown Tampa has the costliest parking among large Florida cities, 43 percent more than Orlando and 18 percent higher than Miami. ...more

July 16, 2008

A new survey by real estate company Colliers International shows downtown Tampa has the costliest parking among large Florida cities, 43 percent more than Orlando and 18 percent higher than Miami. ...more

July 15, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- For an hour and a half, campers splashed, laughed and plotted in their pools. When they called their counselors over, some barely uttered a whisper, alerting the counselors to the impending doom. Others giggled and shouted for their counselor to come because they really wanted to tell them something. It's good, clean fun at the PACK Sumer Camp. ...more

July 12, 2008

China, India and other energy-guzzling developing nations rejected key elements of a global warming strategy Wednesday that was embraced Tuesday by President Bush and leaders of wealthy nations. The United Nations' top climate official also dismissed the G-8 goals as insignificant. ...more

July 10, 2008

As our country "goes green," I ask myself, "What happened to good old-fashioned thriftiness?" When I was a young college student, my husband and I were older than our counterparts and we put each other through school with two preschoolers. We were so glad to have something on the table to feed our children; I became very adept at stretching bologna, macaroni and cheese, hamburger, or whatever else was on hand into multiple meals. ...more

July 5, 2008

A study published last month by a University of Chicago sociologist concluded that senior citizens make for the happiest Americans, with more socially active seniors being the happiest of them. A Highlands Today reporter went out and told several seniors and one recently-retired baby boomer about the study. Then he asked whether they were content with their lives, and what they thought of the study. ...more

May 4, 2008