Cypress Gardens will reopen March 28 with a new management team led by Bill Sims, who worked at the Winter Haven attraction with founder Dick Pope Sr. and also headed Silver Springs in Ocala and Weeki Wachee Springs in Spring Hill. ...more

February 25, 2009

Cypress Gardens will reopen March 28 with a new management team led by Bill Sims, who worked at the Winter Haven attraction with founder Dick Pope Sr. and also headed Silver Springs in Ocala and Weeki Wachee Springs in Spring Hill. ...more

February 24, 2009

Children at Lake Magdalene Elementary loaded up on books to raise more than $10,000 to benefit their school. ...more

December 10, 2008

A comment by his fourth-grade teacher has meant all the difference to Brad Brady. He overheard her exclaim how wonderful his performance in a school play was. "It was only one comment, and I wasn't supposed to hear it, but it has made a world of difference," he said. It spurred Brady to get his degree in theater education at the University of South Florida and to become the head of the theater department at Renaissance Academy, a private school in the New Port Richey area. ...more

July 2, 2008

As workers sprayed insulating foam to protect newly planted flowers from cold weather Wednesday, the new owners of Cypress Gardens announced a break with the park's recent history and said they're in business for the long-term. ...more

January 3, 2008

WINTER HAVEN - The new owners of Cypress Gardens are planning to announce "significant operational changes" today at a 2 p.m. news conference at the park. ...more

January 2, 2008

Monica Sleeter learned to speak English at age 9 in the suburbs of New Orleans. Her family emigrated from Colombia, and she was nervous in her new country. ...more

November 1, 2007

Laurie Philpot knew she needed to do something when she learned an old high school friend's 2-year-old son had leukemia and the mounting medical costs had thrown the family's finances into disarray. ...more

October 1, 2007

TAMPA - A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Cypress Gardens Adventure Park to a Mulberry-based land development firm. After hearings Thursday, Judge John Laney III of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Georgia approved the sale of the Winter Haven park to Land South Holdings LLC for $16.8 million. ...more

September 28, 2007