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Agriculture Magazine Earns Accolades In The Field has been selected 2008 Agri-Business of the Year. ...more
July 9, 2008
PLANT CITY In The Field has been selected 2008 Agri-Business of the Year. Karen Berry, a lifelong resident, started the monthly agriculture magazine in November 2004 to give a voice to the farming community. ...more
June 30, 2008
An overflow crowd jammed the Memorial United Methodist Church Sanctuary last Wednesday to pay respects to Mason Smoak, who died in an airplane crash June 20. There were so many people there that the Lake Placid church had to use its Fellowship Hall to accommodate all of them. According to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office, a 1989 fixed wing, single engine, two-seater Piper Cub was returning to the Placid Lakes Airport and crashed near the south end of the runway. Smoak, who was the pilot of the airplane at the time of crash, and his passenger, Dave Maehr, died at the scene. Smoak and Maehr were conducting aerial surveys of black bears in Highlands County. Maehr was a visiting scientist at Archold Biological Station while on sabbatical from the University of Kentucky. ...more
June 29, 2008
With a little less than a month before the municipal election, three candidates for a lone seat on the City Commission met Thursday at the Rotary Club of Tarpon Springs Forum. ...more
February 16, 2008
If elected mayor in the 2008 municipal election, Scott McPherson would strive to get the stalled Main Street Landing condo-retail construction project moving again. "The bottom line is that it needs to get back on track," McPherson, an attorney who announced Tuesday he is running for mayor in the April 8 city election, said of the long-stalled condo-commercial project. ...more
January 26, 2008
There is a deepening sense of foreboding and hopelessness in this South Wales market town as the number of young people who have killed themselves keeps rising. The death toll stands at seven. ...more
January 24, 2008
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