Joseph Weeks Sr., longtime owner of Weeks Hardware Store on Main Street, is the great Brooksvillian of 2009. ...more

August 6, 2009

Dear Mr. HandyPerson, I read your column regularly and find many sensible solutions to problems. However, in your column on discouraging raccoons, you left out fox urine as a deterrent. ...more

March 22, 2009

Former President George W. Bush has visited a Dallas hardware store that earlier this month made him a lighthearted offer to work as a greeter. ...more

February 22, 2009

For years, "Two Minutes" for food was a slogan and pledge at Hill's Family Restaurant. ...more

January 24, 2009

An empty tank of gas likely saved Fenol Francois's life. On the morning of Nov. 18, Francois left his home early to fuel up before heading to work. In his absence, three men broke into his home at 8110 Nightwalker Road. ...more

December 17, 2008

I was where I did not want to be: standing in a big discount store late on a Sunday afternoon smack dab in the middle of shopping season waiting on customer assistance that would never come. ...more

December 10, 2008

Johnny Knotts' business will soon resemble more of a toy shop than the hardware store it has been for 75 years. ...more

November 27, 2008

They are usually no bigger than a man's fist and attached to a magnet or a strip of gummy adhesive - thus the name "obwah lasica" in Arabic, or "sticky bomb." ...more

November 14, 2008

Andy Argintar feels proud every time he spies his last name on the historic brick building in Ybor City that housed his family's clothing store for more than 90 years. ...more

October 6, 2008

Can you explain how I can fix our toilet? We have to hold down the handle for a while to make sure everything is flushed. Does this mean that the flapper is closing too fast? ...more

August 14, 2008