February 2010
mj@observernews.net Ray Daniels carries a basket of cucumbers in a Ruskin field in 1947. Photo courtesy of State Library and Archives of Florida RUSKIN – In a few days…
By WARREN RESEN w630@aol.comMember of the Florida Outdoor Writers Association The Grand Old Lady of Jacksonville Beach sits on a dune overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. She has been there since…
By Penny Fletcherpenny@observernews.net RIVERVIEW — When 5-year-old Dave LaPoint got pulled out of bed to play baseball, he never dreamed it would be the start of a lifelong career.…
By MELODY JAMESON mj@observernews.netRuskin – Robert J. Schindler just may be the region’s most reluctant writer. When daughter Meghan entreated him to turn an imaginative childhood fairy tale into…
You can get in on the action too! By PENNY FLETCHER penny@observernews.net SOUTH COUNTY — Bob Williams buys a lot of things he doesn’t need or use. In…
By MELODY JAMESON mj@observernews.net Nitrogen, one of the big three in fertilizers that keep South County lawns green and growing, also is “a pollutant of concern” threatening marine life…
Only half as far as Bushnell, Florida BY PENNY FLETCHERpenny@observernews.net SUN CITY CENTER- South County veterans and their families eligible to be buried in a National Cemetery only have to…