Students will hit the football field Saturday for a head-to-head competition to determine the best team. But it won't be athletes battling against each other on the gridiron. ...more

November 11, 2009

Students will hit the football field Saturday for a head-to-head competition to determine the best team. But it won't be athletes battling against each other on the gridiron. ...more

November 11, 2009

Organizers for the Plant City Christmas Parade have canceled the event this year, the first time in at least 25 years and perhaps since World War II. ...more

December 6, 2008

When the season began, Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer said sophomore QB Tyrod Taylor would be taking a redshirt season. After all, the Hokies had senior QB Sean Glennon, Most Valuable Player of the 2007 ACC Championship Game, and it would benefit the program if Taylor could bank an extra year. ...more

December 5, 2008

DRAWING A CROWD? When the first three ACC Championship Games were held in Jacksonville, attendance decreased each year. ...more

December 3, 2008

Art exhibits, auctions, food, entertainment, a veterans' presentation and fun activities for children and adults are on tap Saturday at Samuel W. Cooper Park to benefit restoration of a rooming house listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ...more

November 5, 2008

The Plant City Christmas Parade will remain a Friday night tradition. ...more

October 22, 2008

The community of Ruskin is pulling together for one of its own, a teenage girl who was severely beaten and now is blind and unable to walk, breathe or swallow on her own. ...more

August 11, 2008

The squall line that blew through Central Florida on Monday couldn't have had lousier timing. Not only did it declare, in soaking fashion, a startling end to a week's worth of chamber of commerce weather, it did so in lock step with the high school bands marching down Seventh Street to proclaim the start of the 61st Pasco County Fair, reducing their traditional trumpeting to so much brass-plated gargling. ...more

February 21, 2008

SEBRING — Off came the drums, tubas and flutes. About three dozen Sebring High School marching band members celebrated while unloading a trailer-load of instruments on Tuesday. The band qualified for the Florida Marching Band Coalition Championships this Saturday at the Lakewood Ranch High School in Bradenton. The Blue Streaks earned a "Superior" ranking, and along with 16 other high school bands in their division, will compete for the state crown. Eligible to qualify at several competitions during the season, the 78-member Spirit of Sebring Marching Band qualified at the last possible moment on Saturday, at the University Classic in Orlando. This is the first time that a Sebring High School band earned statewide honors. Band Director Colorado Paniagua wore a pin on Tuesday that read , "I Love My Band" and talked about the group "making history." In only her second year at Sebring High School, Paniagua said she never expected to rise so high in the ranks, so fast, since it usually takes four years to move up a notch. "Last year was a little difficult," said the band director. "A lot of people didn't buy into me or like changes." ...more

November 14, 2007