It was by coincidence, but the pool that Durant and Plant City were placed in for the Saladino Baseball Tournament puts them into very familiar environs. ...more

April 1, 2009

Walking back into the cramped visitors' clubhouse at Fenway Park early Sunday evening, month-old memories came rushing back to Carlos Pena. ...more

October 13, 2008

"Should I stay or should I go." To quote the band "The Clash," illegal immigrants to Avon Park and its environs must be asking just that question. If they stay here, they risk arrest, deportation, exploitation or worse. If they go back to Mexico, they risk greater poverty, starvation, exploitation even murder by corrupt thugs, drug dealers and cops. Nice choice, eh? I recently witnessed a demonstration against illegal immigration at the intersection of US 27 and SR 64 in Avon Park. Truck drivers were honking their air horns presumably in support of the demonstrators who proudly waved American flags next to a pickup truck with a sign against illegal immigration and for drilling domestic oil. In attendance was the former mayor of Avon Park, a huge enemy of illegal immigration. I don't know him, never met him, but I've heard him speak. Nice to know paranoia is alive and well in America. ...more

September 8, 2008

It was Cliff Floyd who first sounded the alarm during the week before the All-Star break. ...more

July 27, 2008

SAFETY HARBOR – Beekeeper Ken Stack, 65, approached the beehive carefully this morning. ...more

January 25, 2008

A massive beehive has taken shape in a tree, roughly 50 feet in the air, during the past several months, and city officials decided to have it removed. ...more

January 23, 2008