At this time of year, thoughts are focused on friends, family, giving and sharing. I would like to share my experience with individuals who have been injured, are in pain and feel as though they can never be the same again. There is a resource in Lake Placid where you can receive physical therapy treatment which goes beyond the average care delivered in many physical therapy practices. Personal Rehab is a unique practice. Its owner, Rene Smit, employs the hands-on approach to the healing of damaged muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. I suffered a nasty fall while at my summer camp in upstate New York. It resulted in a shoulder that had many fractures and broken pieces that healed into a semi-frozen state. The attending physician predicted my injury would leave me limited in both flexibility and range of motion. Indeed, four weeks of "traditional" physical therapy treatment in New York produced little change in my condition. I had used the services of Personal Rehab in the past with complete success, so my husband and I cut short our summer plans, and returned to Lake Placid. ...more

December 21, 2007

Like many of its members, the East Pasco YMCA has a plan to become more fit and flexible. ...more

December 5, 2007

Stay with TBO.com for live scoring updates. ...more

November 24, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Mainsail Development Group is on a mission to clean up Hillsborough Avenue, and its staff is starting at Hillsborough and Eisenhower Boulevard. ...more

November 21, 2007

Many businesses have sales to close out the year, but with Lennar's Ultimate Year End Sales Event, customers have the opportunity to save as much as $90,000 on a new Lennar home, says Jassy Friddle, a marketing manager. ...more

November 18, 2007

The war over Ward Street has ended. A portion of the road between Kennedy Boulevard and Cleveland Street will be closed when Porter Development redevelops the Brazzeal Goodyear Tire shop into a four-story office and retail project that will include a Publix grocery store and fitness center. ...more

November 17, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Mainsail Development Group is on a mission to clean up Hillsborough Avenue, and its staff is starting at Hillsborough and Eisenhower Boulevard. ...more

November 17, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Don't worry if at 5 a.m. you notice 30 very active people dressed in camouflage at Scarborough Football Field. Lake Placid isn't being attacked by soldiers. Those are just some serious workout enthusiasts taking part in a fitness "boot camp" organized by Florida Hospital's Shoemaker Fitness Center. As part of the hour-long weekly sessions, Renee Kohl, fitness trainer and instructor, leads the troops during bear crawls, centipedes, alligator crawls, ups/downs, cherry pickers and more conventional exercises like sit-ups and push-ups. Everybody runs, skips and jumps as part of exercises designed to burn calories, tone muscles and sculpt abdominal muscles. "This is real tough; there are no smiles at 5 a.m.," said Boot Camp participant Ron Grimming. ...more

October 29, 2007

The debate about whether to close Ward Street continues to boil. Residents spent about an hour discussing the issue at the Beach Park Homeowners Association meeting last week and remained bitterly divided. ...more

October 24, 2007

SEBRING – SeaBreeze Homes Inc. and TOV Development Co. announce the development of SeaBreeze, the companies' 224-unit condo-home community located on the corner of Sebring Parkway and Scenic Highway. With the permitting process well under way, groundbreaking for the $50 million project, which will encompass 19.4 acres just north of Lake Jackson in Sebring, is anticipated in the spring of 2008. Its first units are slated for availability in the fall of 2008. According to Randy Asher, a managing partner of SeaBreeze, the project's architects and planners focused on the needs of busy professionals throughout the process of floor plan and community design, as well as in developing an amenity package. ...more

October 21, 2007