If we had to hazard a guess, we would imagine 99 out of a 100 people who have driven by Mittye P. Locke Elementary School over the years assumed its namesake, like many of the other people for whom schools in Pasco County are named, had long ago passed away. Until Wednesday, however, that wasn't true. On that day Mrs. Locke, one of the pioneers of Pasco public education, died, a little less than two months before what would have been her 100th birthday. ...more

February 28, 2009

State regulators on Thursday denied a company's request to build a landfill near the environmentally sensitive Green Swamp. ...more

February 13, 2009

Florida's Department of Environmental Protection denied a request for a solid waste permit to build a landfill in Dade City near the Green Swamp. ...more

February 12, 2009

For a linguistics professor to lose his hearing must be a special kind of living hell. Desmond Bates finds his entire life is changed as he decides he must retire early. "Deaf Sentence" by David Lodge is a funny, yet tragic picture, of Desmond's new life learning to cope with insufficient information. An attractive young American graduate student professes she wants his advice on her thesis, but Desmond is not sure that is all she wants. And his inability to communicate rationally gets him into all types of embarrassing social and professional situations. Then, too, he also has to cope with his 89-year-old father who is refusing to leave his familiar world, though he is really not able to manage on his own. Desmond struggles to juggle his past and current life and is forced to accept the realities of aging and mortality. ...more

February 11, 2009

When I saw my rock 'n' roll buddies wearing leg warmers a couple of years back, I thought to myself; "Those will so go mainstream - and soon." ...more

December 14, 2008

Leg warmers, an '80s fashion fad, have come back and gone mainstream. ...more

December 11, 2008

There could be a use for a former church building the city of New Port Richey bought during the brief period of optimism about downtown redevelopment. ...more

October 8, 2008

IN THIS CORNER Spring Hill Senior Boys collect 13 post-season wins finishing one cherished win shy of a possible national championship. ...more

August 17, 2008

The old lever machines are long gone. We all know what happened with the punch cards and hanging chads. And now the touch-screen machines are relics, too. ...more

July 21, 2008

An editorial on the continuing popularity of libraries and improvements to Oldsmar and Palm Harbor libraries. ...more

October 9, 2007