The folks in Lantana think the Postal Service would have to be nuts to close their post office and they're trying a coco-nutty way to prove it. ...more

October 29, 2009

As home gardeners prepare a patch in their yards for an annual vegetable garden, a Mulberry woman is hoping to plant a seed of her own. ...more

October 21, 2009

Every year, 20,000 rubber ducks race down the Hillsborough River to help end hunger in this area. ...more

October 14, 2009

Parkway Food Ministries in Sebring was providing food to about 50 families a month when it opened in October 2007. With the recession hitting people harder, the ministry now gives food to 300 families monthly. ...more

January 26, 2009

Eighty-four percent of the students at Ruskin Elementary School qualify for free or reduced lunches. Yet this Christmas season they, themselves, have learned the lesson of giving. ...more

December 24, 2008

POWER SOCCER: United Soccer Leagues will host a three-game exhibition of power soccer, featuring two U.S. teams from the competitive division 1, on Sunday, beginning at 10 a.m. The event will be held at Ed Radice Sports Complex in Tampa. Power soccer is the first competitive team sport designed and developed specifically for power wheelchair users. For information, go to www.powersoccerusa.net. ...more

November 22, 2008

Hire A Pony Riding Academy is offering free pony rides to anyone who contributes two or more nonperishable items. ...more

November 12, 2008

High fuel costs for shipments is motivating a local food bank to grow its own food. ...more

May 21, 2008

Shortages of food for the poor and hungry is becoming so severe a local food bank has contemplated raising its own crops. The Volunteer Way, on Congress Street in New Port Richey, is scheduled to meet Monday night with officials of a church in the area which has several acres of land, Lester Cypher, CEO of the Volunteer Way, said today. ...more

February 11, 2008

The community's spirit of giving helped a local food bank at just the right time. ...more

December 26, 2007