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Attention helps build attendance
[Times photo: Janel Schroeder-Norton]
One school's attendance officer makes wakeup calls, helps find supplies and clothes and searches out free medical care to fight truancy. |
Threat to our county from anthrax is small
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Those words were spoken in 1933 and are certainly apropos today.
Inventor finds niche easing wait for bowlers
HOLIDAY -- Picture this: You're standing at the edge of your bowling lane, having just knocked down nine pins. You're going to whack down the remaining pin that's wobbling to a standstill, just as soon as you get your ball back.
Haunting the fall festivals
In Dade City, a pumpkin carving contest and scarecrow festival brings out artists, big and small. In Zephyrhills, a haunted apartment building may be the scariest of them all.
Police: Suspect led way to body
A trooper says Samantha Jane Beach told police where to find the body of a man police say she and her boyfriend killed.
Food luring tourists to N Seventh
Dade City officials say a new bakery and a new restaurant will help draw traffic past Meridian Avenue.
Courage on display as show debuts
Steve Spina is my new hero.
Cost of road drives plea for state's help
Hernando County officials say County Line Road, which will cost more than $120-million to widen, should be part of the state's highway system.
In praise of players who won't quit
Editor: It's a shame that seven senior football players made the choice to quit on their teammates and coaches for 15 minutes of a halftime homecoming activity. This halftime activity will consist of having their names announced and walking across the football field. I cannot understand why these young men would choose to end their football careers two games early, and on a sour note, for 15 minutes of hand waving to the crowd.
Singers sought for barbershop quartet chapter's chorus
The Pasco County Chapter of SPEBSQSA barbershop singers is looking for prospective members to sing with its a cappella men's chorus, "Sound of Sunshine."
Business digest
WHO'S NEWS: Alternative Property Management and Real Estate Services has welcomed Bruce Root and Barry Grover back to Pasco County where they will head up the real estate division for Alternative Properties. Root and Grover, formerly with REMAX Advantage Realty Port Richey and REMAX Partners Fort Lauderdale, are consistent multimillion-dollar producers with 20 years of combined real estate experience.
Police reports
Value Lodge robbed Sunday
