Aripeka News

Al Hansen, left, Rose Sutherland, Dave Sutherland and Bev Hansen peer onto a Timber Pines pond during Monday's annual Christmas Bird Count.

A Southern gospel concert featuring the Peytons will be from 2 to 4 p.m. today at the Brookridge clubhouse, 8150 Hampton St.

Benefit concert featuring the Peytons: 2 to 4 p.m., Brookridge clubhouse, 8150 Hampton St., Brookridge.

Visual Unity: A Collaboration Runs through Dec. 31, Morean Arts Center, 719 Central Ave., St.

Long Island Club will meet at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 16, at St. Stephen's Parish Hall, 5326 Charles St., New Port Richey.

Started in the 1930s, Norfleet Fish Camp in Aripeka is a neighborhood store. Besides picking up beer, milk or cold cuts, neighborhood folks gather every morning for coffee and conversation.

County commissioners opted against gas pumps and wanted limits on lighting, but a new convenience store will be built in Hernando Beach.

Bernard Franklin Peyton knew he didn't have much longer. Skin cancer had spread over his neck and head.

You have probably never met the artist James Rosenquist, but after reading his new memoir, Painting Below Zero , you'll feel as if you have.

Right at Home , an assistance agency that provides in-home care for seniors and disabled adults who want to continue to live independently, has opened a new office at 6630 Rowan Road, New Port Richey.

A March 2, 1912, advertisement offers the town for sale. An article quoted a sawmill official as saying the property presents "a small city with the very best of auspices." [Courtesy of Jeff Miller] HUDSON For several years, the whining of the sawmills never let up.

Snowden Technologies provides information systems solutions for the mining industry.

"Little Buddies" toddler program: 10:30 a.m. to noon, Jerome Brown Community Center, 99 Jerome Brown Place, off Darby Lane, Brooksville.

The following Labor Day events are scheduled for Monday: VFW Post 10209 Labor Day cookout, 11 a.m., 14736 Edward R. Noll Drive, Spring Hill.

Aripeka Elks Lodge 2520: 9135 Denton Ave., Hudson. Ed Salmon's String Band performs.

The Southwest Florida Water Management District will be conducting controlled burns during August and September on the Annuteliga Hammock and Weekiwachee Preserve.

"Date Night" movie and dinner: 6 to 9 p.m., Ridge Manor United Methodist Church, 34350 Cortez Blvd., Ridge Manor.

Thrift center offers school freebies at fest HIS Storehouse Outreach and Thrift Center will hold its annual Back 2 School Festival from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, offering free backpacks and school supplies, free food, carnival games for the children and a coupon for a $5 kid's haircut at Artistic Hair.

Aripeka Elks Lodge 2520 is taking reservations for season tickets to the 2009-10 series of dinner shows at the lodge, 9135 Denton Ave.

Dawn Velsor, left, lead environmental planner with the Hernando Planning Department, talks with Alex Size from the Trust for Public Lands about features of a parcel of land nominated for acquisition through the county Environmentally Sensitive Lands program.