Sweetbay Supermarket celebrated Earth Day by participating in a canvas bag conversion with Macfarlane Park Elementary School. Sweetbay donated 400 canvas fold-away bags in exchange for more than 10,000 plastic bags the school collected between February and May. ...more

May 6, 2009

Normally, you'd expect a match between two nationally ranked teams to happen a little later than the opening round of the region playoffs. But Thursday night, East Lake - No. 20 in the ESPN Rise boys soccer Fab 50 - and Jesuit - No. 21 in the same poll - will meet. ...more

February 5, 2009

Leave it to a member of the Red Sox to put the Rays' attendance woes in the kind of straightforward terms that public relations-conscious members of the home team have generally avoided. ...more

September 17, 2008

Who is Wayne Bennett, the "Hurricane Hero?" He's the good guy that a pastor told this writer about because his deeds relate so well to his religious charity in the community. ...more

August 16, 2008

Stuart Sternberg freely admitted Saturday that superstition has been his motivation in avoiding his team for the better part of two months. ...more

June 22, 2008

Should Highlands County have an elected or appointed superintendent? We don't really know. There's compelling arguments for and against both systems. For the last many years, we did fine with an elected superintendent. Then one day, somebody raised the idea of appointing the school superintendent instead, and suddenly the whole subject's become a talked-about issue. But if the system is not broken, should one fix it? ...more

February 4, 2008

Dear Abby: A friend was diagnosed with cancer. A single woman living alone, she rallied a group of co-workers, friends and neighbors to donate their time to help her with a variety of tasks. These included driving her back and forth to chemo and doctor appointments, fixing meals, cleaning her house (she has OCD and was superpicky about every detail, including cleaning the cat box), sleeping over to make sure she was OK (we had only a lumpy couch because she refused to set up a bed in one of her two vacant bedrooms!) and handling a variety of other tasks. ...more

January 27, 2008

His team's performance at the Graves Invitational was encouraging, but Durant High wrestling coach Dennis Kitko left the event feeling bummed out. ...more

January 12, 2008

No Place To Raise Money Regarding "Plates Should I.D. Vehicles, Nothing Else" (Our Opinion, Dec. 3): ...more

December 8, 2007

Regarding "Risque Business" (Baylife, Oct. 30): I have to say this article made me a little sick. From what I have seen over the past number of years, from the time little girls are any age at all, the parents are dressing them like little hookers. And if I look around I see pre-teen and early teen girls dressed the same way. Then there is what they see on TV and the movies. ...more

November 6, 2007