Winning a blue ribbon for creating the top key lime pie at the recent American Pie Council National Championships is just the icing on the cake for Lola Giunta. Last month she and her mother, Cindy Giunta, moved their 2-year-old business, which turns out pies, cookies, cakes and other pastry items from an obscure warehouse location along U.S. 19 in Tarpon Springs. Key Lime Yummies is now in downtown Palm Harbor, at the newly designed kitchen inside the Witches Brew, on Florida Avenue. ...more

December 19, 2009

Irv Hoffman and Margie Weiss had plans for honoring their copper-haired daughter on what would have been her 25th birthday Thursday, including a long visit at Rachel Hoffman's Palm Harbor grave. ...more

December 18, 2009

Beau Richard Wallace admits he made a mistake. "I had the laser on the helicopter for about five seconds," the 18-year-old Palm Harbor resident said Thursday. "It was a bad idea. I'll never do it again." ...more

December 18, 2009

I love this job because just about every week I get a news release about a new reality show that sounds dumber than everything we have already seen. ...more

December 17, 2009

A new group has formed dedicated to getting Palm Harbor its fair share of attention and support from government officials. ...more

December 12, 2009

A group of ceramic artists in the Tampa Bay area are "all fired up" - their words, not mine - and ready to meet the public. ...more

December 9, 2009

Deneilo Bradshaw and Andrea Green spent a frenzied night trying to hide evidence and evade authorities after they shot and killed Rachel Hoffman during a botched drug sting, according to testimony and opening statements in Bradshaw's trial Monday. ...more

December 8, 2009

The national debate over paying for health care might be dragging on in Congress, but Alex Weixler has decided not to wait. Instead, she is rolling out some solutions of her own for the uninsured and underinsured. ...more

December 5, 2009

In response to the tsk-tsk-ing and lecturing about the lost innocence of journalism sparked by the orgy of news coverage regarding the admitted "transgressions" of golfing great Tiger Woods, we offer a few contrarian observations. ...more

December 5, 2009

Esperanza Interfaith Center moved its religious services to the Miracles Now Center, 3281 Tampa Road, Palm Harbor. ...more

December 2, 2009