TRINITY -- On a hillside in Heredia, a town just northwest of the bustling Costa Rican capital of San Jose, Pasteje sits. Meaning "high green pastures," Pasteje is the farmland vision of Bob and Janet Wilmarth, former New Port Richey residents now going into their 26th year on the Central American isthmus. ...more

August 6, 2008

LAKE PLACID — It's still an unsolved mystery, what happened that night in 1997 when a call came to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. Lt. John Chess recalls, dimly because it was 10 years ago. His recollection and the murder files, he says, don't match author John Bowe's book, "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy." (Hardcover, 336 pages. Price: $25.95) But Chess agrees with the premise of the book, that indentured servitude certainly does exist today, because he's a veteran police officer. "This has been going on for years," Chess said. ...more

September 30, 2007