Ed Gallio was shopping for a Christmas tree in the early 1990s when he pulled his car into a lot on South Manhattan Avenue. ...more

December 6, 2007

Attention Quinton Johns' family: Don't read until Dec. 25. Two days after an appendectomy, 12-year-old Quinton dragged an IV tube behind his gown as he combed tables inside St. Joseph's Children's Hospital stacked with pink nail polish, measuring tapes, ponytail holders and stuffed rhinoceroses. ...more

December 6, 2007

Freshly cut trees and holly-jolly service are the bargaining chips Christmas tree vendors tout in the hopes of luring customers from major retail stores. ...more

December 3, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - A 9-year-old boy has been chosen as the winner of the 12th annual Design-A-Holiday-Card contest, which benefits The Children's Home. ...more

December 1, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - A 9-year-old boy has been chosen as the winner of the 12th annual Design-A-Holiday-Card contest, which benefits The Children's Home. ...more

December 1, 2007

O Christmas trees, O Christmas trees, your spores can make us all sneeze... In 1969, Canadian researchers interviewed 1,657 allergy patients and theorized that as many as 7 percent of people with allergies may be allergic to their Christmas trees. That team theorized the culprits were pollens and balsam resins. ...more

November 29, 2007

Black Friday faded, Cyber Monday logged off. Can the next demand on the holiday dollar be far behind? ...more

November 27, 2007

Tree, As In Christmas The consensus of the Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce not to promote an event as "faith-based" slipped in the censorship of the word "Christmas" from its first "Holiday Tree Lighting" coming up Saturday in a Pasco County park. ...more

November 26, 2007

We give thanks to God before our meals. We start all of our public and private meetings asking God for wisdom and guidance. Yet we won't allow God into our schools. Where do our children learn good from bad and right from wrong; all the things that shape their lives for the future. They say that 62 percent of Americans think it is okay to give out birth control devices in schools and instructions on how to use them. God would not approve, so we don't let him into our schools. We allow subjects to be taught from books that we would not allow in our homes. But a Bible is not one of the books that is used to teach our children, good from bad. ...more

November 25, 2007

It's called the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. It's the crazed five weeks beginning the day after Thanksgiving and ending on New Year's Day. ...more

November 21, 2007