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Perfect FCAT Score Belies Impairment

Call him imaginative. Call him determined. Call him stubborn. Just don't call him blind. ...more

June 14, 2008

Visually Impaired Student Aces FCAT Writing

TAMPA PALMS - Call him imaginative. Call him determined. Call him stubborn. Just don't call him blind. Liberty Middle School eighth-grader Peyton Short can barely make out images because of a genetic condition that has left him visually impaired. But it hasn't kept Peyton from his first loves of reading and writing. His passion for the written word was evident with his recent score on the writing portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. He earned a perfect score, one of 22 students in his school to earn the top mark. ...more

June 10, 2008

The Choice Isn't Easy

MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS MVP PROFILE Multi-sport Mallorie Pickersgill may be the finest soccer player Nature Coast Technical has never seen. Problem is the Challenger eighth-grader is the county's reigning middle school Player of the Year. ...more

June 9, 2008

Keeping Watch On Diabetics' Health Needs

Tammy Turner knows the statistics. An estimated 21 million Americans have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Six million of those afflicted don't even know they have it. Another 54 million have prediabetes. ...more

May 31, 2008

Age Is Just A Number For Joyer

Hunter Joyer impressed people when he lifted 445 pounds on the bench press during the Class 2A state boys weightlifting meet last month in Daytona Beach. ...more

May 28, 2008

The Great Debate...Does Nyholm Stay or Does He Go?

BOYS TENNIS MVP PROFILE Despite collecting the County's Player of the Year honors again, Hernando High sophomore Chris Nyholm may not return to the prep scene next year -- concentrating instead on the USTA circuit. ...more

May 26, 2008