Children returning to class this week can get entertained and receive free school supplies from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Eastside Baptist Church, 1318 E. Calhoun St. ...more

August 23, 2009

I would like to address the price gauging going on in Highlands County. A lady wrote a letter on Sunday and I agree with her totally. ...more

March 5, 2009

As surely as winter takes another trip across the northern tier of America, the signs of spring already are blossoming in Florida. ...more

February 24, 2009

The thing about the Back Porch Stage, a narrow patch of unpaved possibility between Higgins Hall and Clayton Auditorium - the unfortunate thing, really - is that you pretty much have to be going there to get there. ...more

February 20, 2009

Do you generally like bacon on your hot dog? Or pancake syrup with your sweet potato fries? ...more

February 5, 2009

An assortment of cutting edge kitchen- and food-related items. ...more

January 22, 2009

Suzanne Bellerose, the new president of the club, said lawn bowlers will have the chance this new year to literally bowl morning, day and night. ...more

January 14, 2009

The full moon occurs on Sunday at 3:47 a.m., while the lunar perigee happens a day later. Both facts combined create the largest nighttime feeding period of the month and if the daytime weather is ideal, perhaps the largest daytime feeding period of the month. ...more

January 7, 2009

Reality, Not Fantasy America would be a better nation if it cared more about the "players" who run for office instead of the players running with footballs! ...more

December 13, 2008

The state has agreed to pay the nation's biggest producer of sugar cane $1.34 billion, instead of the $1.75 billion originally proposed, under a revised deal to buy up vast tracts of farmland to restore the Everglades, the company said in statements Tuesday. ...more

November 12, 2008