When it came to picking this year's recipient of the Alice B. Tompkins Community Service Award, Steven Saunders said the choice was obvious. ...more

June 4, 2008

DUNEDIN -- Factors such as tight budgets, dwindling sponsorships from struggling businesses and rising fireworks prices are prompting some Florida cities to forgo traditional Fourth of July fireworks displays this year. That list includes cities such as Tarpon Springs and Plant City. ...more

May 31, 2008

The Kiwanis Club of Tampa presented 13 Hillsborough County students with scholarships at its annual Arthur Henderson Memorial Scholarship Awards and the 11th annual Pete Gilmore Memorial Scholarship event April 23. The club awarded a total of $26,000 to students from Leto, Durant, East Bay, Jefferson, King, Blake, Chamberlain and Armwood high schools, and Simmons Career Center. ...more

May 24, 2008

Recreation Chinsegut Nature Center will present an indoor PowerPoint program titled "Florida's Hummingbirds" by Bev Hansen from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at the Nature Center located at 23212 Lake Lindsey Road, Brooksville. The public is welcome. For more information, call Chinsegut at 352-754-6722 or visit its Web site at MyFWC.com/Chinsegut. ...more

May 6, 2008

AVON PARK –– Putting a team together for a scramble golf tournament is something of a science in itself. A combination of a long hitter, solid iron play and a good putter usually provides for a competitive foursome. That's what the talented team of James Lizotte, Pete DuPriest, Jerome Bovve and Phil Simonson had, as they finished with a 57 to win the Championship Flight in Saturday's Sebring Noon Kiwanis Club's 24th annual Kiwanis Charities Golf Classic at Highlands Ridge North. The popular tournament attracted a field of 108 golfers who participated in a four-person scramble format. Placing a close second with a 58 was the group of Pete Coughlin, Sandy Foster, Charlie Little and Marty Roepstorff. ...more

May 4, 2008

Mari Pothier, a Hernando High School senior and one of the county's top 41 high school students, envisions careers both behind and in front of the camera. ...more

April 27, 2008

When talk turned to allowing women into the Kiwanis Club two decades ago, more than a few members of the all-male club were in an uproar. ...more

February 20, 2008

The 2008 officers of the Brandon Masonic Lodge No. 114 were installed at a ceremony Dec. 28 at the lodge. About 130 members and friends attended the event, which included dinner after the installation. ...more

February 14, 2008

Almost 300 books were donated recently to the Department of Adult and Community Education's Family Literacy Program by Verizon employees. ...more

February 7, 2008

John McCaughey was a man with a thousand ways to make his point and 1,000 friends who gained a great deal by knowing him. ...more

January 16, 2008