Freedom High senior Joe Gazzillo has a sweet treat bound for troops deployed in Afghanistan. ...more

December 16, 2009

Freedom High senior Joe Gazzillo has a sweet treat bound for troops deployed in Afghanistan. ...more

December 14, 2009

Freedom High senior Joe Gazzillo has a sweet treat bound for troops deployed to Afghanistan. He has collected about 250 pounds of candy since Halloween to send to his cousin and other Marines in the war zone. Bags of snack-sized M&Ms, Almond Joy, Snickers and other assortments of candies poking out of plastic containers and boxes fill the foyer at the Gazzillo's suburban home. ...more

December 13, 2009

It's Halloween, the unofficial national day of candy consumption. In just a few hours, your little darlings will be coming home with their haul of Lemonheads, Sour Skittles and Kit Kat Bars. And you will once again bemoan the junk and its power to destroy kids' appetite for anything remotely healthful. ...more

October 31, 2009

To dentists, Halloween is truly the scariest of holidays - all those sticky, gooey sugary things that pass through the night into the waiting sacks of young trick-or-treaters. ...more

October 31, 2009

To dentists, Halloween is truly the scariest of holidays - all those sticky, gooey sugary things that pass through the night into the waiting sacks of young trick-or-treaters. ...more

October 28, 2009

Is the holiday's point to gather as much candy as possible? If so, we're again pulling an F on the culinary scorecard. It wasn't always so. ...more

October 23, 2009

About two dozen volunteers carved out about three hours of their Saturday morning to do something that, to Barbara Newlin, seems so simple and yet has such far-reaching impact. ...more

November 17, 2008

Even for those with the most robust sweet tooth, this is just about the time when that pile of candy that looked like plundered treasure on Halloween night is starting to seem like a chocolate-covered albatross you can't make disappear. ...more

November 12, 2008

A minivan rolls through the streets of St. Petersburg. In it, your scribe and Violet, his 3-year-old daughter, listen to the "Madagascar 2" soundtrack without incident until Track 11, "More Than a Feeling," by Boston. ...more

November 6, 2008