Of all the places for President Barack Obama to visit, Arcadia seems like it wouldn't make the list. But we're glad our president will be making it down to our neck of the woods. Maybe he'll see or hear something that opens his eyes to the realities of rural areas like ours. ...more

October 25, 2009

Dr. Ray Turman delivered babies for more than 30 years before retiring and moving from Tampa to Sun City Center. These days, he only delivers freshly prepared meals to his wife, Marianne. ...more

December 3, 2008

Project maps and video presentations on display Nov. 18 at The Palmetto Club at FishHawk Ranch impressed Judy Lambert of Brandon, but the traffic and development she witnessed on her way to Lithia astonished her. ...more

November 26, 2008

Project maps and video presentations on display Nov. 18 at The Palmetto Club at FishHawk Ranch impressed Judy Lambert of Brandon, but the traffic and development she witnessed on her way to Lithia astonished her. It had been 20 years since Lambert ventured that far south on Lithia-Pinecrest Road, the perpetually congested commuter route at the center of discussion that night at a Hillsborough County public workshop. ...more

November 20, 2008

Tampa Bay's rivalry with Carolina has unfortunately been a painful one for Bucs fans. ...more

October 12, 2008

Today, nearly itch free, I must thank the dozens of readers who stumbled upon last week's column about being, as we say in my neck of the woods, "eat up" with poison ivy and offered their sympathies, remedies and horror stories of gigantic, oozing sores that I will never be able to remove from my brain no matter how many times I jab myself in the ear with the sharp end of a No. 2 pencil. ...more

August 3, 2008

Recently, I heard on the radio that the city of Clearwater had placed dead last as a desirable retirement destination. The poll cited too many old people as the reason for its lack of appeal. ...more

December 14, 2007

State Sen. Victor Crist, R-Tampa, weighed in on the Dade City landfill controversy Tuesday, filing legislation that would severely restrict where new landfills could be built in Florida. ...more

December 5, 2007

Welcome to our roost! "Bud" and Jean Warren will be the local Audubon Chapter's President and Vice-President for the next two years. They just completed a birding tour of Ecuador, Argentina and Peru. We are certain that hundreds of photos have been taken and the Warren's will share their great adventure with the Audubon membership sometime soon. ...more

September 2, 2007