Hernando Beach News

The County Department of Public Works Wednesday issued a partial "stop work" order to the contractor handling the Hernando Beach dredging operations until the deficiencies outlined by the state are corrected.

State environmental regulators have put Hernando County and the contractor dredging the Hernando Beach Channel on notice that the work thus far may violate the law and permit requirements.

The Kiwanis Club of Ridge Manor will host a dinner show featuring Crazy Carol on Dec.

A man's body was found floating in Jenkins Creek on Friday morning by a couple walking on a bridge at Jenkins Creek Park on Shoal Line Boulevard.

Jo-Anne Peck, 40, and Craig DeRoin, 48, moved to Tampa shortly after they married, to help rehabilitate 33 historic buildings around Ybor City as part of an Florida Department of Transportationa s Interstate 4 improvement project .

Luxury waterfront homes with a direct view of the Gulf of Mexico got a thumbs up from county planning officials on Monday.

BROOKSVILLE Chocachatti Elementary School will feature a "Veterans Field of Glory" at the school located at 4135 California St.

In King Arthur's time, there was the Sword in the Stone, the mythical key to Camelot and the kingdom.

Veterans serving breakfast Sunday Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9236 Men's Auxiliary will serve breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday at the post, 3435 Shoal Line Blvd.

Reported by: Don Germaise Email: dgermaise@abcactionnews.com HERNANDO BEACH, FL -- Hernando County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a South Carolina teen on a charge of throwing a deadly missile at a moving vehicle.

A South Carolina teenager has been charged with felony throwing a missile at a moving vehicle.

When it comes to lowering or suspending impact fees, there will always be two opposing schools of thought.

L&N Mulch, a business the county has hounded for code violations since 2007, will close by the end of the month.

Kenneth and Dorothy Toeppe of Spring Hill, Florida, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary October 1, 2009 with their family in Spring Hill.

The Hernando County Sheriff's Office is seeking help in determining how a man who was found unconscious sustained his injuries.

Drug education for Hernando County schoolchildren will have to come from elsewhere.

German-American Club of Spring Hill: Membership meeting, 7 p.m. Thursday, Hernando County Shrine Club, 13400 Montour St., off Sunshine Grove Road.

Last-minute efforts to save a drug education program and Sheriff's Office substations failed during final deliberations over Hernando County's 2009-10 budget Thursday evening, as did an attempt to lower the tax rate.

Out near Hernando County's eastern border, far from the traffic and noise of downtown Brooksville, the heart of this rural community beats inside a small, nondescript concrete-block room.

Beer bottles. Styrofoam cups. An old shoe. Not the kind of stuff that visitors enjoy seeing when they come to the Weekiwachee Preserve.