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Weighty matters
[Times photo: Kevin White]
William Wing, 14, wrestles squirming and squealing Will-B-Gone to the scale Saturday night for a weigh-in, a 4-H event that leads to the 2002 Hernando County Fair and Youth Livestock Show in March. |
Jan Glidewell
Americans need to get a grip, drop gas mask
Somebody might get the last laugh on this one while stepping over my dead body, but I refuse to be moved by the hysterical belief that giving some huckster hundreds of dollars for a war surplus gas mask and a chemical warfare protective suit will make my life any safer than it is right now.
Young couple held in armed robbery
SPRING HILL -- A Hudson woman and her teenage boyfriend are accused of robbing a man Saturday morning outside a restaurant he owns in Spring Hill.
Superintendent's car allowance at issue
Wendy Tellone will get $800 a month or the equivalent of providing a car to her predecessor, whichever is less.
A lifetime together, even in death
A woman who collapses during her husband's fatal heart attack dies hours later of a stroke, only 2 1/2 weeks before their 56th anniversary.
Health program serves indigent
Access Hernando will not hold a weekly clinic with a waiting list. Patients will receive care in doctors' offices during business hours.
Still time to share your views
Hernando County residents, like Americans everywhere, have had plenty on our minds since Sept. 11, the day our world changed in ways we don't even realize yet. We have been preoccupied with destruction, death, demons and duty; and many worries we had before that day have been placed in their proper perspective. Comparatively, they are insignificant.
Letter writers tell it to Tellone
Superintendent Tellone: I would like to see you bring back discipline to the school system. Teachers need the right to train students in proper conduct and actions. Training is needed in many social living areas:
For CHS' Evans, TD one to savor
The quarterback's first scoring pass could be the last for a while in Central's run-oriented offense.
West Florida Y Runners Club 50K
If marathoning separates the true competitors from mere athletes, then ultra marathoning runs what's left through a sieve.
Notes of thanks
Sheriff Richard Nugent's first "Beat the Heat in the Street" event was a big draw on Aug. 4 in front of Hungry Howie's Pizza & Subs on Kass Circle in Spring Hill. Deputies from the COPPS (community policing) unit organized the event to give our community's young people an opportunity to spend some informal time with law enforcement officers.
The month in review
The following stories made headlines in Hernando County in September:
