We're sure the good folks at Wendy's worked long hours and invested great amounts of sweat equity into their new product. No doubt millions were spent on R&D and focus groups and marketing budgets and awareness campaigns and restaurant staff training. All to jump feet-first into the very crowded and very lucrative breakfast market. ...more

July 30, 2008

Christine Rideout has been patient. After three years on a waiting list, she was approved for a Habitat for Humanity house. She and her 18-year-old daughter Alexandra have put in hours of their own time hammering on other Habitat houses and framing their own. ...more

June 27, 2008

HABITAT PROJECT HIT BY THIEVES ...more

June 26, 2008

SEBRING – Born and raised in New York City, a former resident of Los Angeles and Sarasota is taking charge of the Highlands County Habitat for Humanity, and now calls Sebring his home. Mike Jacobson, 58, started work as the local Habitat's executive director following a three-year stint as both a volunteer and at a similar paid position in Sarasota. ...more

June 26, 2008

When Paxton Zachary Steier, 4, saw his new home for the first time at an East Pasco Habitat for Humanity home-dedication ceremony, he ran to sit at the center of the front porch and play, somehow knowing that he was at home. ...more

June 21, 2008

Highlands County Habitat for Humanity's loss is certainly a big gain for the DeSoto-Arcadia Habitat for Humanity. Jane Breylinger, a true believer in the monumental mission of eliminating substandard housing, is leaving her job as executive director of Highlands Habitat to take a similar job in DeSoto County. We hate to see her go, which is likely the sentiment others who are involved in Habitat have. Breylinger has done an an exceptional job and is apparently leaving Highlands Habitat in great shape. ...more

June 14, 2008

The Hernando County Fine Arts Council and other groups seek to create an artist cooperative in Brooksville. ...more

February 23, 2008

It's lights out for good tonight at the Tampa Museum of Art, which faces the wrecking ball after 30 controversial years. ...more

January 18, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Nobody would have known from a distance that Habitat for Humanity volunteer John Boyden from Windham, Maine, was working hard in the midday sun with a splint on his thumb. Boyden had earlier pounded his thumb with a hammer and broken the finger nail. He said, with a grin, that the splint was only a precautionary measure, but was needed since he tended to hammer the thumb again and again. Boyden is one of more than two dozen nomadic RVers or CARE-A-Vanners who are visiting Highlands County for two weeks, while building homes with the local Habit for Humanity. ...more

January 9, 2008