A $40,879 Fit For Life nature trail made its official debut last week at Royal Oak Nursing Center in Dade City with a reception and two ribbon-cutting ceremonies. ...more

June 12, 2008

AVON PARK — Volunteers, students and prison inmates are finishing up two new Avon Park Future Farmers of America barns at 1180 E. Winthrop St., which are now "90 percent complete," according to FFA Alumni Association members. The new structures would allow Avon Park high and middle school students to hold their pigs and cattle without having to borrow a spare acre from friends outside of the city. Even though all three high schools have agriculture students who raise farm animals for show at events such as the Highlands County Fair, Avon Park never had its own barn. Before August, when the students need to weigh in their animals for the next Highlands County Fair, they will have 24 hog and 12 cattle pens for those who don't have enough land to raise the livestock. FFA Alumni President Sally Perry said the cattle barn will have its first steers and heifers June 22, the day of the planned ribbon-cutting ceremony. ...more

June 8, 2008

What do you get when you add 1,600,000 feet of branch circuit wire, 360,000 bricks and 3,400 light fixtures? ...more

June 1, 2008

Organizers recently gathered to thank those who helped with a project three years in the making - a home for troubled teens. ...more

May 31, 2008

When his dad left to fight in Iraq, Jon "Zak" Donaldson of Valrico was only 10, but his life began to slip off track. ...more

May 31, 2008

Last week, organizers gathered to thank those who helped with a project three years in the making - to open a home for troubled teens. ...more

May 24, 2008

Last week, organizers gathered to thank those who helped with a project three years in the making - to open a home for troubled teens. ...more

May 24, 2008

KEYSTONE Last week, organizers gathered to thank those who helped with a project three years in the making – to open a home for troubled teens. ...more

May 21, 2008

Maybe the five days of confinement in a concrete kennel with two hounds finally caught up with her. ...more

February 21, 2008

The Carrollwood Cultural Center is on track to have its first concert Sunday. ...more

February 7, 2008