Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen Pageant is coming to Dade City next year. The pageant is expected to draw hundreds of people to the area when the contest opens April 23. ...more

November 7, 2009

The evidence of Jesse Sumner's presence in Pasco County is everywhere, from the names of streets to the names of numerous people descended from the Sumners. ...more

February 25, 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

Hoping to stanch an outbreak of distemper in the Dade City area, Pasco County Animal Services will offer $2 vaccines and booster shots for dogs that may be threatened by the disease. ...more

January 9, 2009

A picture perfect, Norman Rockwell Christmas. This is how organizer Steve Smith describes Church Street Christmas, an annual tradition celebrating its third decade in Dade City. ...more

December 20, 2008

On the occasion of Royal Oak Nursing Center resident Frank Thompson's 103rd birthday, Royal Oak activities director Nila Premer had an apology to make. ...more

December 13, 2008

Pasco County deputies and detectives, aided by a drug-sniffing dog, found 85 pounds of marijuana in a car that was stopped because of an improperly attached license plate, the sheriff's office reported today. The driver, Jose-Juan Carlos Castro-Ramirez, 29, of Lacoochee, was arrested on a charge of trafficking marijuana. He is being held in the Land O' Lakes Jail with bail set at $50,000. Castro-Ramirez was driving a 1997 Saturn near Old Lakeland Highway and Stewart Road south of Dade City when he was pulled over at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday by the sheriff's office's Street Tactical Operations and Patrol, a report said. ...more

October 23, 2008

It's no accident that nearly every house in this fast-growing subdivision has two cars in the driveway. ...more

June 17, 2008

It's no accident that nearly every house in this fast-growing subdivision has two cars in the driveway. ...more

June 15, 2008

Linda Miller never intended to become a genealogy buff. As manager of budget and financial operations for Pasco-Hernando Community College, she's more interested in math than history. ...more

November 2, 2007