The flocks of eager shoppers flooding through the front doors before the crack of dawn is a sight best suited for the big box stores. ...more

November 27, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen, rev your engines. Old Palm Harbor Main Street is gearing up for its seventh annual Fall Bike Fest and Toys for Tots Ride with an expanded event. ...more

November 7, 2009

Two men were charged with aggravated battery after shooting a pedestrian in the face and hand with BB guns, a police report states. ...more

April 15, 2009

Think of Route 66 and several names come to mind: Bobby Troup, who wrote "Route 66"; John Steinbeck, who proclaimed it the Mother Road in "The Grapes of Wrath"; Will Rogers, whose face appears on plaques and is carved in granite memorials all along the old highway. ...more

February 20, 2009

My top 10 reasons to vote for McCain: 1. Corporate welfare isn't socialism, just a helping hand for capitalists. ...more

October 24, 2008

Helping Main Street, and not only Wall Street, with the economy is now engrained in the political lexicon. Our Main streets are disparate, but the conversations are remarkably similar: shaken optimism, yet perseverance. ...more

October 10, 2008

SEBRING — Barbara Walker, 71, of Sebring, puts in four hours a week volunteering at the Highlands Regional Medical Center's gift shop because that's all she can find time for in her busy schedule. Retirement after 45 years with the school board as a cafeteria manager at E.O. Douglas School and then Sebring High School hasn't slowed her down. Walker volunteers or is associated with at least six groups, that do everything from helping the elderly to organizing the annual Juneteenth Festival. ...more

May 18, 2008

The $2.17 million drainage improvement project that has frustrated many New Port Richey downtown business owners and inconvenienced many of their patrons will finally cross over Main Street. ...more

December 13, 2007