Dumping thousands of cubic yards of slurry dredged from the bottom of the Hernando Beach channel onto a property on Eagle Nest Drive could harm the water quality of nearby Minnow Creek and poses a flooding risk for neighboring homes. ...more

August 5, 2008

HEARINGS TAKE AS MANY AS 70 DAYS TO SCHEDULE ...more

July 27, 2008

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection signed off Thursday on plans to dredge 22 canals and four channels, a multimillion-dollar project that has been years in the making. ...more

July 4, 2008

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is my hometown. Although I haven't lived there since 1973, it's still "home" to me in the way that the places where we grow up stay fixed forever in our hearts. It's a genuine "Leave it to Beaver" kind of town where kids ride bikes along tree-lined streets, and people still go downtown to shop. ...more

June 30, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - It costs more to buy almost everything these days, and for users of commercial trash bins, getting rid of stuff is soon going to cost more, too. ...more

June 25, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - It costs more to buy almost everything these days, and for users of commercial trash bins, getting rid of stuff is soon going to cost more, too. ...more

June 23, 2008

SEBRING — Last week when Clell Ford and Erin McCarta measured the width, length and depth of a dredge hole at City Pier Beach, where a drowning took place June 7, they realized it was a whole lot bigger than originally estimated. In fact, it's about 10 times bigger, and it's going to take twice as much sand to fill it as can be easily found in Lake Jackson: 10.000 cubic feet, 6,800 cubic yards. So the bottom line, said Ford, who is Highlands County's lakes manager, is that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection won't be able to grant an emergency permit to fill the football-field sized hole a few feet off the beach. ...more

June 18, 2008

A group of residents plans to challenge the validity of the county's permit to store spoil dredged from the channel there on a four-acre parcel on Eagle Nest Drive. ...more

June 17, 2008

But residents in opposition plan to ask for hearing. ...more

June 16, 2008

Items of interest from Monday's Plant City Commission meeting include: •The meeting began with a moment of silence in memory of strawberry grower Roy Parke, who died June 5. ...more

June 14, 2008