We met Skink. We actually, truly met the living breathing Skink, straight from the pages of a Carl Hiaasen novel. ...more

November 22, 2009

It's a piece of property Dick Stowers knows well. In the 1940s and '50s, Stowers and his friends used to race around Lake Hutto in Lithia, just south of the Alafia River, in their Buick Roadmasters and Chrysler Windsors. ...more

November 19, 2008

Here's one of best-kept secrets in the food business: roadside stands serve some of the best tacos and pork ribs you've ever wrapped your lips around. ...more

September 7, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- An artist's imagination can be magical and mystical and can take one to another place. Local artist, Suzanne Holland of Sunshine Sue's Creations will be the featured artist at the Progress Energy Art Gallery through Sept. 27. The galleries First Friday reception will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1. ...more

July 26, 2008

Heartland Horses & Handicapped Inc., its volunteers and board members would like to express our deepest gratitude to the hosts, sponsors, and riders who helped to make the Sandy Kuhn Memorial El Clair Ranch Ride-A-Thon a great success. With 109 riders and their families, we were able to raise nearly $9,000! This will enable our program to continue offering independence, mobility and dignity to children and adults with special needs. It is through the generosity of individuals and business that we are able to continue this program free of charge for all participants. The benefits of our program and those alike are endless. Riding for the disabled has become a well recognized and acclaimed method of improving the lives of those who refuse to let their disabilities limit them. Our participants gain confidence, dignity, mobility and self-esteem. ...more

May 22, 2008

SEBRING — What sounded like the rapid snapping of cap pistols filled the air on Wednesday, while students at Cracker Trail Elementary School responded by cheering wildly. ...more

February 20, 2008

Check out our photo gallery from today's Cracker Trail ride. ...more

February 20, 2008

There was no talking, not much eye-to-eye contact and little smiling. ...more

November 21, 2007

There was no talking, not much eye-to-eye contact and little smiling. ...more

November 21, 2007

SEBRING — Dorothy Harris, the Highlands Hammock State Park ranger, was describing all the artists and exhibitors at the CCC Festival when Nancy Dale, a local historian, walked up, a small, elderly man in tow. "This may have been the man who the statue was modeled after," she said, and started telling his story. In front of the Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, there's a bronze of a CCC worker on a four-foot stone pedestal, shirtless, his right hand resting on an axe. He's about the same size as the man in front of her, wearing a floppy boonie hat all the CCC boys used back then. ...more

November 4, 2007