Advanced Academics will be offered for the first time in the first-grade in the upcoming school year. ...more

July 28, 2008

It's easy to know where you stand with Sebring's George White. He pulls no punches, and if you want his opinion, well, just stick around. He'll give you that, too. For those who know White, it's a part of what makes him special and a fixture around the city he's called home from the beginning. ...more

July 20, 2008

Even children with good grades, who avoid drugs and trouble can fall victim to the deadly game that killed 11-year-old Deneathia Service, her mother said. ...more

June 26, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: Jessica Castillo, 12, just finished the sixth grade at Cambridge Christian School in Tampa. She was chosen writer of the year by teacher Sharee Romaine, who wrote, "I wasn't planning to choose a writer of the year until this student's 'Heart of Christ' paper was turned in to me." ...more

June 7, 2008

No football team in Hillsborough County has had a tougher week than East Bay. ...more

May 23, 2008

SEBRING –– Providing youngsters an opportunity to learn about the game of basketball and hear more about the word of God is what the Upward Basketball League is all about. Joe Delph, who is in his first year as the associate pastor of youth and activities at the First Baptist Church of Sebring, heads up the first-year program, and is excited about the potential for growth in the league that is for youngsters in kindergarten through the sixth grade. "This program is a great concept and has worked well here," said Delph. "This is a very sports oriented town and I think we've tapped into something culturally that will benefit what we're trying to do as a church in trying to reach out to the community." More than 120 youngsters are participating in the league that uses the First Baptist Church of Sebring Recreation Outreach Center for its practices and games and runs through the end of March. ...more

February 24, 2008

The keys to Pasco's success haven't been much of a secret, yet they still have been difficult to slow down. ...more

January 25, 2008

The recent hullabaloo following the news of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy brings the level of a celebrity's influence into question. ...more

January 25, 2008

The one thing I was not prepared for when I began teaching sixth grade was the sex. ...more

January 3, 2008

LAKE PLACID –– Dave Alden remembers his brother-in-law, Wendell, fondly, although he was only a child when his adopted sister married. It was partly because Wendell's life was a success story but more importantly he always made time for Dave. That mentoring of honesty and setting a good example made a lifetime impact. Born in Vermont, Alden retired in 1989 as a project engineer with Kennicott Copper. He and his wife, Marie, traveled the United States and Alaska for two years before the snowbirds decided to find a warm place in Florida to land. While zigzagging across the state, they discovered Lake Placid and fell in love with this town of murals and caladiums. Dave feels that their secret to being married 48 years –– besides luck –– is that they love each other and have the same goals. Marie was the type who wanted to help people and he was brought up the same way. ...more

December 31, 2007