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[Times photo: Brian Tietz]
Housing proposal uproots retirees
Some 20 years ago, Frank and Ruby Jester chose the Tradewinds, a waterfront mobile home park that grew out of a 1950s fishing resort, as the place where they would live out their days.
Other parks may follow suit
HOMOSASSA -- Tradewinds park sits on the banks of the Homosassa River on 17 acres dotted with red maple, sweetgum and laurel oak trees that bend in the summer breeze. |
June 11, 2000
New program offers another way out for drug offenders
INVERNESS -- Brenda Kristofferson's drug habit escalated from marijuana use in high school to cocaine addiction by the time she reached her 30s. A once outgoing person with a successful hairstyling career, she was showing up late for work and had lost her love for life.
Zellner's charm, service recalled
Millard Fillmore "Phil" Zellner, 71, died Wednesday of lung cancer.
Brush fires' menace hits close to home
It was just before 7:30 Friday evening when the stranger pounded on our front door, yelling a word that will chill anyone in Florida these days: "Fire!"
Phrase in e-mail was not intended to be offensive
Editor: Re: In politics, it's not the newspaper that shows bias, June 7 column by Jeff Webb:
New facility serving patients with dementia
CITRUS SPRINGS -- The Cottages of Gentle Breeze, an assisted living facility in north-central Citrus, has opened a new, nine-bed unit designed to help patients who suffer from severe dementia.
County teams hit by district reshuffle
Lecanto and Seven Rivers Christian are affected most by the spring sports realignment.
DeWitt gives up on going to elite triathlon in France
A British citizen, the trip could threaten her bid for permanent residency in the United States.
