TAMPA - When Vanessa Fellion's older brother, Bobby, told her he buried something valuable under the U.S. 301 bridge in Riverview, she didn't believe it for a second. ...more

November 20, 2007

TAMPA - Ten volunteers with the Tampa chapter of the American Red Cross will head into the fire zones of California this week to help open shelters and feed evacuees or whatever else is needed in the shadows of the wildfires that are ravaging southern California. ...more

October 24, 2007

For some local businesses, beginning a global outreach to sell products is a scary prospect. For others, it's a big opportunity. That's why a few businesses in Highlands and Hardee counties showed up to meet a delegation of officials from Peru Wednesday. The Peruvians stopped in Wauchula as part of a whirlwind tour of Florida looking for trading partners. Very few people from this area took part in the networking meeting, but the ones who did have high hopes of selling their goods. The idea of selling outside the country leaves a lot of people feeling weak in the knees, but the people who do it say many safeguards are in place, and there's no reason why local manufacturers cannot find new markets. We hope that's the case, and we hope more local business people take advantage of future trade meetings. ...more

October 19, 2007

The business community is hustling to find a way to keep the bright pink crape myrtles along U.S. 301 from getting the county ax. ...more

October 10, 2007

The business community here is hustling to find a way to keep the bright pink crape myrtles along U.S. 301 from getting the county ax. ...more

October 10, 2007

SEBRING — "I like it, don't get me wrong. It's something different.... This is like the '50s." Lourdes "Lou" Gil of Deerfield Beach has been biking since she was 18, but the stout 53-year-old only went to three bike rallies before Sunday. She had some fond memories of those three, though, especially one in Key West. "Everywhere you go, they had a different thing going," she said, describing how wild the women were and how the bikers were all with them. It wasn't sexual, she quickly added. Many of the bikers there wouldn't use their stereotypically salty language to describe the Run to the Heartland this year. Words like "nice," "friendly," and "laid back" were the phrases more often used, but that calm that left Gil dreaming of Key West was just what several other bikers came for during the past weekend. "I enjoy coming over here, it's not crowded like Daytona or Leesburg," said Danny "Free Bird" Holt of the Ft. Pierce-based Reflection Riders. "You get a lot of places where you can't even walk, there's so many people." ...more

October 8, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Joe Seward remembers watching television on Sept. 11, 2001, and seeing the twin towers crumbling. ...more

September 18, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Joe Seward remembers watching television on Sept. 11, 2001, and seeing the twin towers crumbling. ...more

September 15, 2007