Glazer Family Foundation presented grants totaling more than $15,000 to four nonprofit organizations during a March 9 luncheon and grant presentation at One Buccaneer Place. Representatives from Blossom Montessori School for the Deaf, Dawn Center, Hemophilia Foundation of Greater Florida and Sydney's Angels for Autism attended the private luncheon and accepted checks presented by Darcie Glazer Kassewitz on behalf of the Glazer Family Foundation. ...more

April 1, 2009

Dressed in colorful attire, mothers and daughters came together recently to have tea and help the Hope Children's Home. ...more

April 1, 2009

America's educational system is a mess. We have students slipping through the cracks, failing to perform and flat out getting through without possessing the basic knowledge they need to succeed. It has become a tradition of sorts for each new president to address this issue with a nationalized plan for reform. I usually don't agree with very much that comes out on the national level, dictating to the masses, but sometimes I actually do. ...more

March 18, 2009

George A. Montgomery of New Port Richey says Florida should ratify the gambling pact with the Seminole Indian tribe because it needs the revenue. ...more

March 14, 2009

A new audit shows that sales of the Florida Lottery are going flat. ...more

March 12, 2009

This is in reference to the story that ran Sunday in Highlands Today regarding the Highlands County school budget. I disagree with this teacher, Roberta Peck. Teachers work very hard for their salaries and they deserve every penny they have earned. ...more

March 11, 2009

On Feb. 21, the Gasparilla Distance Classic Association, C.E. Mendez Foundation and University of Tampa hosted the 19th running of the Too Good For Drugs Jr. Gasparilla Distance Classic at the university's Art & Polly Pepin Stadium. The event is for children ages 2 to 10, and rather than being a competition, the run focuses on participation and education. Every child received the number 1 as their race number, a race packet full of goodies, a Too Good For Drugs Jr. Gasparilla Distance Classic Race T-shirt and, after crossing the finish line, a Finisher's Medal. The more than 1,400 kids ran distances according to their age. ...more

March 4, 2009

The father of the California woman who gave birth to octuplets tells Oprah Winfrey that the actions of his daughter and her doctor were "absolutely irresponsible." ...more

February 19, 2009

The L.V. Thompson Family Foundation presented LifePath Hospice with a donation of $5,000 at a recent check-presentation ceremony at the hospice's Circle of Love Center for Grieving Children. The money benefits children's bereavement programs and the center's annual children's grief camp, Camp Circle of Love. ...more

February 18, 2009

Your opinion piece "State Lawmaker's Bark Aimed at Wrong Tree" (Our Opinion, Feb. 16) was cutely titled but incomplete and somewhat misleading. Do your editors think putting homeless animals to death is cute? ...more

February 17, 2009