Aripeka News

Depending on where you live in Hernando County, you saw a sizable amount of rain this week.

Get out your flippers and your shucking knives, it's that time of year again. The recreational harvest season for bay scallops begins July 1 and continues through Sept.

Get out the snorkels and load up the boat with dip nets: scallop season is nearly upon us.

The recreational harvest season for bay scallops begins July 1 and continues through Sept.

Rock Band Jam Session for teens: 1 to 3 p.m., Spring Hill Branch/Harold G. Zopp Memorial Library, 9220 Spring Hill Drive.

"Hurricane and Trees" free horticulture class: 10 a.m., Spring Hill Branch/Harold G. Zopp Memorial Library, 9220 Spring Hill Drive.

Students this summer may find themselves on a game show, or in Discovery Canyon, or on an imagined stretch of the Australian Outback - but they'll all be in the same place: Vacation Bible School.

'What Can I Use to Get Rid of All These Bugs?' horticulture class at 10 a.m., Spring Hill Branch/Harold G. Zopp Memorial Library, 9220 Spring Hill Drive, Spring Hill.

The developers of the former SunWest Mine in northwest Pasco County won one more approval from county commissioners today, despite the objections of residents of nearby Aripeka.

Aripeka Elks Lodge 2520: Dinner, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., 9135 Denton Ave., Hudson. Music from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Menu choices are liver and onions, baked chicken, spaghetti and a "chef's special." Prices vary from $6.50 to $8. Dessert and coffee will also be available for purchase.

Hernando Beach Open Market is held every Saturday and Sunday at 3375 Shoal Line Blvd., Hernando Beach.

Stage West presents 'Epic Proportions': 8 p.m., Stage West Community Playhouse, 8390 Forest Oaks Blvd., Spring Hill.

Chinsegut History Tour: Noon to 3 p.m., Chinsegut Nature Center, 23212 Lake Lindsey Road, north of Brooksville.

Petersburg Times reported. Mr. Rosenquist, 75, who along with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein is considered a seminal figure in the Pop Art movement, was unharmed, as were his office staff members.

James Rosenquist, or Jim as he likes to be called, moved to obscure Aripeka 32 years ago.

World-renowned pop artist James Rosenquist's sculpture of a bandage at All Children's Hospital in St.

Published: Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, April 27, 2009 at 3:51 a.m. ARIPEKA The home of world-renowned painter James Rosenquist was destroyed in an 80-acre brush fire that ripped through the Hernando Beach area Saturday.

ARIPEKA: Pop artist James Rosenquist has lost his west Florida home and art for an upcoming show to a brush fire.

HERNANDO BEACH A sprawling brush fire was heading west Saturday afternoon along a sparsely populated section of Osowaw Boulevard.

American Legion Post 99: Bingo, 11 a.m., 208 E Fort Dade Ave., Brooksville. The kitchen will be open.