State wildlife officials are delaying the start of the recreational harvest season for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. The open season announced Friday by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is now June 1 through Sept. 30. The original opening date was April 15. ...more

April 11, 2009

State wildlife officials are delaying the start for recreational harvest season for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

April 10, 2009

A little church has taken on a big project to help people in need. Refuge Baptist Church, with about 30 members, has started a "Yard Give-Away" program, collecting household items, furniture and clothes and setting them out on the church lawn on selected Saturdays, free to anybody who can use them. ...more

December 31, 2008

Jim Smetzer, chairman of the Blueberry Shop 'n' Stroll organizing committee, says the event went well but concerns from the public about a shortage of blueberries was welcomed. ...more

June 21, 2008

A 2-year-old proposal to turn a patch of land along South Village Drive into an organic garden is inching toward fruition. ...more

February 9, 2008

Red snappers and Gulf reef fish are being protected by new rules implemented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission today. ...more

February 7, 2008

The first Thanksgiving, in the autumn of 1621 was a recognition by the Pilgrim Fathers of the Providence that had seen them through a hard winter, into a tense spring and then into a harvest season in which fortune smiles. The story of that first year is told, in part, by the old Pilgrims themselves. William Bradford their governor, tells about the "new life" in his "History of Massachusetts:" The spring now approaching, it pleased God the mortalitie began to cease amongst them. And ye sick and lame recovered apace, which put, as it were, a new life into them, though they had borne their sad affliction with as much patience and contentedness as I think any people could do. ... But it was ye Lord which upheld them and had beforehand prepared them, many having long borne ye yoake — yea, from their youth... ...more

November 22, 2007

The death toll from a cyclone that devastated Bangladesh has surpassed 2,200, officials said Sunday, while rescuers struggled through blocked paths to reach hundreds of thousands of survivors awaiting aid in wrecked homes and flooded fields. ...more

November 19, 2007