After 40 years in the classroom, Erna Frazier is ready to retire Thursday. But you would never know it watching her with her students. ...more

June 4, 2008

Soldiers Aborted ...more

May 22, 2008

What is right with America? For more than a year and a half, this country has been under attack from the political process. Political adversaries striving to be our next president have spent millions of dollars telling you why they are the best candidates. But during that process, they have been telling us what is wrong with America and how they can fix it. ...more

May 18, 2008

When The Players Championship began opening-round play Thursday at TPC Sawgrass, Paul Goydos was the first player to find water at the never-popular, ball-gobbling No. 17 par-3 island green. ...more

May 12, 2008

SEBRING — It came as a surprise. After Martha Visbing suffered a stroke, she ended up in the Kenilworth Care & Rehab Center in Sebring. Left home alone was husband Glenn Visbing. As he has for two years, Glenn visits his wife most evenings. He said he misses "everything" about living under the same roof. ...more

May 11, 2008

Believe me, teaching usually is no picnic. It can be just a job many days and like any other career, it can be tough to make yourself get up and go to work. Some days you just want to get through the day and go home. But, I can remember when, for me, it was fun. ...more

February 15, 2008

Among a few antiques I have collected over the years is a wicker baby buggy. The frame is made of metal, and the body and hood are made of wicker. It is not marked. ...more

February 2, 2008

February isn't harvest time for too many things, but there is a bumper crop of local talent ripe for the picking scheduled for the public's perusal this month at the Pasco Schools Center for the Arts, 11646 Town Center Road, on the River Ridge Middle-High School campus. ...more

February 2, 2008

My name is Albin Pelski. I am the president of Toby the Clown Foundation located in Lake Placid. Keith "Toby" Stokes started Toby's Clown Alley and Toby the Clown Foundation many years ago. Since then we have graduated over 700 clowns from our clown school. ...more

January 24, 2008

I just have to write this, you see I have met "Rambling Norman A. Cukras" and his wife Ruth on a number of occasions. They are both super nice people. Although I have to admit my sympathies go out to Ruth whenever Norm and I get together, as you see we both just love to talk and we have to see who can top who in the telling tales department. Norm has told me so many things he has learned at the check out counter, Which Ruth has to add, "Maybe he could get something done if he would stay out of the stores." Then I have to see if I can top Norman with a tell I have learned about life, such as I don't call snowbirds snowbirds. I call them frogs... the way I see it they come to Florida to croak. ...more

January 19, 2008