All of Citrus Park are cheering players for the Citrus Park Little League, who will compete at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. ...more

August 12, 2008

The old house stood empty and forlorn for years before it was set on fire and then reduced to rubble by a bulldozer and a mechanical shovel. ...more

July 22, 2008

A dentist's office puts patients at ease using techniques that can turn any home into a refuge. ...more

June 25, 2008

It's the Bruce Willis of botanical bullies. You can cut it, burn it, poison it. It just keeps coming back. ...more

June 11, 2008

Isaiah Collins had minutes to live as he lay bleeding on the roadside by the bright green palmettos. ...more

May 27, 2008

It's easy to forget, in the ribbons of highway and rows of two-car garage homes, that Florida was built by real horse power. ...more

February 25, 2008

The photo hanging on a wall in Joe Sumner's house looks like a scene out of a Western flick: four horses splashing through a creek, carrying men in broad-brimmed hats under a canopy of moss-draped trees. ...more

February 21, 2008

When the Plant City Garden Club went to give the Garden of the Month award to Doug and Lisa Granger of Heathcoe Road in January 2007, we found their story about how they came to own that property is a tale worth telling. ...more

February 13, 2008

AVON PARK –– Mollie Doctrow grew up as a city brat in California. Nature wasn't part of her family picture. They stayed in hotels and never camped out. But from her first outdoor experience with Girl Scouts at 16, she fell in love with nature and became the family oddball. "Something connected and filled this spot inside me, and the more time spent in nature, the more connected I feel," Doctrow remembered. She received her master's in fine arts from California State University in Northridge with a specialty in printmaking. While teaching at Brevard College, she visited a friend in the Sebring area. Doctrow stayed, created artwork and fell in love with the environment. For the past three years she has been the curator at South Florida Community College's MOFAC (Museum of Florida Art and Culture) which is dedicated to the art and artists of Florida whose work interprets Florida history, heritage and the environment. Doctrow contacts artists and schedules shows and events to showcase their work. In addition, she also teaches computer graphics, drawing, printmaking and design at SFCC. ...more

February 4, 2008

Along the Hillsborough River recently, the mood was fowl. A small downy woodpecker expertly chipped away at cypress bark, and a pine warbler flitted among pine tree branches. Below, a tiny blue-grey gnat catcher hovered near a cluster of palmettos, and an anhinga sat near the river shoreline. ...more

November 21, 2007