The members of the current Hernando County School Board may not be sure how to handle a longtime program that teaches kindergarteners how to swim, but school board candidate Gene Magrini is. ...more

October 8, 2008

The YMCA program that helps local kindergarteners learn to swim may be on the line at local schools. ...more

October 6, 2008

About 100 students from Shaw Elementary participated this month in the Passport to Safety event at the St. Pete Times Forum as a kickoff to the Kids Are Heroes program. ...more

September 20, 2008

About 100 students from Shaw Elementary participated in the Passport to Safety event Sept. 10 at the St. Pete Times Forum as a kickoff to the Kids Are Heroes program. ...more

September 17, 2008

We've pinched and reorganized our household budgets. But we still often overpay for commercially bottled water. On an annual basis, the typical American consumer spends $1,400 on bottled water versus 49 cents for the same amount of water from our kitchen faucet, according to the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit consumer group in Maryland. ...more

August 21, 2008

Seven years after the Plant City Family YMCA moved into its new digs off Alexander Street, the organization is bigger and better than ever, its supporters say. ...more

August 6, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - School's out, and although some children may opt to stay in the cool air conditioning and perfect their Guitar Hero score, others will venture outdoors. ...more

June 15, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - School's out, and although some children may opt to stay in the cool air conditioning and perfect their Guitar Hero score, others will venture outdoors. ...more

June 11, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - School's out, and although some children may opt to stay in the cool air conditioning and perfect their Guitar Hero score, others will venture outdoors. ...more

June 11, 2008

BRADENTON - Johnnie Schoolfield Jr. and Theodore Thomas were longtime friends, growing up in the same neighborhood in east Bradenton. On Halloween night, the men were together, naturally, cruising the streets. The paramedics, who pulled up to the crash first, did not go in the water. Within about four minutes of the 911 call, two firefighters arrived, threw on life jackets and dived into the pond. They had seen a man go under but were unable to find him. ...more

November 2, 2007