Residents of two Zephyrhills mobile home parks spent much of Friday cleaning up from severe weather that damaged a least a dozen mobile homes. ...more

March 13, 2010

It isn't just arctic blasts that the Canadians sweep into the United States this time of year. Here in Zephyrhills, the annual snowbird migration appears to have brought in more cash, too. ...more

February 17, 2010

It isn't just arctic blasts that the Canadians sweep into the United States this time of year. Here in Zephyrhills, the annual snowbird migration appears to have brought in more cash, too. ...more

February 15, 2010

Hernando County raised $67,018 in bed tax revenue for the first three months of this current 2009-10 fiscal year, which covers the months of October, November and December. ...more

January 20, 2010

We own a share in a mobile home park. We did not know that the park operations were tied to a CPI index when we purchased. We would like to sell and buy elsewhere. Where do we go to have the share transferred? Our park board has been transferring the share but has been slow. ...more

January 10, 2010

The Hernando County Tourist Development Council collected $24,270 in bed tax revenue from hotels in May. ...more

July 9, 2009

A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a string of mobile home burglaries in Tarpon Springs, and he's the stepbrother of the first suspect, police said. ...more

February 24, 2009

Tarpon Springs police say they arrested a man during the surveillance of a two mobile home parks and charged him in a series of burglaries this morning. ...more

February 23, 2009

Up until 2009, Lake Placid has enjoyed clean, unpolluted air as there are no smokestack industries that I am aware of. This has attracted senior mobile home parks as well as senior assisted living facilities to the area. But now the Highlands County Commissioners have decided to change that by giving permission for an ethanol producing plant to locate near U.S. 27 and S.R. 70 just south of Lake Placid (about six and a half miles.) This is one of the worst polluting industries in the country. Even if they agree to install some anti-pollution measures, as everyone knows it would be cheaper for them to pay fines and-or bribe authorities than it would be to install very expensive, adequate anti-pollution equipment. ...more

January 3, 2009

Let's face it, gasoline not only fuels our cars, it basically drives our economy. ...more

December 31, 2008