The Christmas holiday season - Highlands County residents describe it as magic and amazing and a time for peace and joy, family gatherings, traditions and celebrating the birth of Jesus. ...more

December 20, 2009

The trick was on the Lowry Park Zoo visitors at Friday's annual pumpkin toss, a holiday treat for the animals. ...more

October 31, 2009

The trick was on the Lowry Park Zoo visitors at today's annual pumpkin toss, a holiday treat for the animals. Alex, a 12-year-old chimpanzee, decided to throw the pumpkins at the crowd, who watched various animals chomp and play with carved pumpkins, stuffed with goodies. Jane LeFave, a zookeeper, said Alex is basically entering his teen years "and he has to show off." ...more

October 30, 2009

Spencer Duhm says he has a tendency to obsess on things sometimes. For much of his childhood and teen years, for example, he was a "serious, hard-core fan" of the Florida State University Seminoles. ...more

February 12, 2009

A former Boys and Girls Club teen member, Chris Letsos ,will oversee the club's Pasco region, which has four facilities serving some 1,000 children, in the newly created position. ...more

January 20, 2009

In church on Sunday, before the service started, I observed a young girl between 10 and 12 years old walking up and down the aisle, greeting people with the aplomb of a 40 year old. ...more

December 31, 2008

About one or two years before a woman opens up the birthday card that reads, "Lordy Lordy look who is 40," she has another day of reckoning. It's called the somewhat surrealistic 20-year high school reunion. ...more

December 26, 2008

Joey Putnall, a second-grader at Jackson Elementary in Plant City, has courted the waves since he was knee-high to a sand flea and the only thing dragging him down was a soggy diaper. ...more

December 2, 2008

Joey Putnall, a second-grader at Jackson Elementary in Plant City, has courted the waves since he was knee-high to a sand flea and the only thing dragging him down was a soggy diaper. ...more

December 1, 2008

A recently opened student-run branch of Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union is giving Mitchell High School students a chance to develop workplace skills and to learn how to manage their finances. ...more

November 23, 2008