Balm News

More than 200 residents packed County Center June 9 at a public hearing on next year's proposed budget.

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Elizabeth "Pooka" Bradley Sweat celebrated her 90th birthday in her favorite manner - " with laughing, chattering, reminiscing A people, most of them years younger, coming together from near and far, by the tens of dozens.

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RELATIVES of the victims of a nursing home fire which killed 14 last night hit out after one of Scotland's most senior law officers admitted they had been let down by the legal system.

MEMBERS of the community are invited to discuss their concerns with their neighbourhood police teams.

A PROSECUTION of the owners of a care home where 14 elderly residents died in a fire has collapsed after charges against them were dismissed.

Adrianne Balmer shows off her work of art in the 2009 Kite Festival. The 11th annualA kite festival drew nearly 10,000 peopleA thisA year,A according to its organizer, the Salem-Roanoke County Chamber of Commerce.

Balm Wimauma Road at State Road 672 in Balm, northbound lane closed intermittently from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. through today for intersection reconfiguration.

Researchers are working to determine if high-tech irrigation controllers that use satellites in space can save homeowners tons of water.

A brush fire in eastern Hernando County has grown to 350 acres and has forced the voluntary evacuation of about a dozen homes, authorities say.

Traffic is flowing again along Interstate 75 in Sarasota County this morning after a large burshfire had closed the roadway.

While most growers escaped the freeze with little damage, Louis Haverlock of Lou Ross Citrus Inc.

Some farmers think they dodged a bullet during this week's overnight freezing temperatures, but others fear a long-term threat to crops and groves.

Temperatures hovered in the high 20s in eastern Hillsborough County while staying in the 30s in Tampa early this morning.

The drive through Pasco County will get bumpier in a couple of weeks on Interstate 75 as the state begins a $32 million repaving and bridge replacement project from State Road 56 to County Road 54.The 18-month ...

Nervous berry growers in the Tampa area caught a break this morning as temperatures over inland areas remained above freezing.

Showers and thunderstorms forecast to herald the arrival of a cold front Wednesday would produce the first rain for West Central Florida this year as 2009 follows the dry path of 2008.

Rosita Cruz, proprietor of Empanada World, watches the activity around her booth at the Saturday Morning Market, now in the Al Lang Stadium parking lot.

Bright, yellow, numbered decals will be glued down on the Upper Tampa Bay Trail.