Last Monday we drove past the Kenilworth Lodge road sign. The message for the day read something like, "Today is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. Just toss it all on the floor!" Back home, feeling comfortable at our messy desks, we checked it out on our computers. Sure enough, the second Monday in January is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. It has been since 1982 when Ann Chase Moeller, daughter of the Chases (of Chase Annual Event Calendar fame), wrote it into their record book. According to Organizing Resources, "Desktop management is critically important to our well being - physically, mentally and psychologically." They say, "It is extremely difficult to concentrate on a particular task when bombarded with myriad piles of paper. The only papers that should be on your desk are the ones you are referring to at that particular moment. The only miscellaneous objects should be ones you use all the time, except for a few special mementos and a living plant." ...more

January 18, 2008

GIRLS SOCCER Defender-turned-forward, freshman Lindsey McElroy, deposits four goals and one assist as Hernando turns back first-year Wesley Chapel-Sunlake, 5-1. ...more

January 16, 2008

SEBRING – There is not a lot of time left to find that perfect gift for that special somebody and apparently a bunch of Christmas shoppers are in that predicament. As of Dec. 18, just one week before Christmas, about 19 percent of men — and about 14 percent of women — had yet to begin their shopping, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation. The survey showed that 16.5 percent of all consumers hadn't started shopping. In Highlands County, some merchants agree with the survey about seeing more shoppers getting a late start, while other store managers don't see it that way. "We're swamped," said Tom Short, manager of Michaels Arts and Crafts at the Shops At Shelby Crossing in Sebring. "They are buying Christmas stuff like it is going out of style." ...more

December 23, 2007

You can't call last Monday night's match a moral victory, because nobody lost. Neither Class 4A, District 8 team had to take the high road. ...more

December 17, 2007

HOLMES BEACH - Investigators know Carla A. Beard left a residential drug rehabilitation center in Sarasota on Nov. 26 and that she died of blunt trauma to the head about two days later on Anna Maria Island. ...more

December 4, 2007

SARASOTA - Organizers of the downtown New Year's Eve celebration are scrambling for a last-minute plan to collect enough money to pull off the event. ...more

November 27, 2007

TAMPA - Like, OMG. Hannah Montana is totally in the house — well the St. Pete Times Forum that is. ...more

November 19, 2007