Ridge Manor News

Learn about groups, how to help homeless As part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the Mid-Florida Homeless Coalition will host an open house from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at Career Central, 7361 Forest Oaks Blvd., Spring Hill.

County Purchasing Director James Gantt denies allegations by a Brooksville law firm that claims he and his department violated the law by failing to properly post or advertise meetings to acquire and retain professional services.

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

When Seven Hills Golfers Club and Spring Hill Golf and Country Club closed abruptly at the end June, reactions ranged from stunned to angry.

Published: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 5:48 a.m. What's a stumped Ledger columnist to do when Lake Wales Pioneer Days comes around and she can't think of an appropriate column? Simple: Try stumping her readers.

Jenny Rimmer has no illusions. She knows she's probably not what the organizers of the 28th Colgate Country Showdown are looking for.

AARP driving classes meet in November AARP Driver Safety Program classes are available at various locations throughout the county.

A Gulf Coast man was arrested after falling asleep in the freezer of a shuttered pub he was trying to rob.

A Gulf Coast man was arrested after falling asleep in the freezer of a shuttered pub he was trying to rob.

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The brightly painted pink and camouflage-colored toilets that have been appearing on local lawns the last few weeks are not some new kind of lawn ornament.

Ridge Manor Property Owners Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, at the Ridge Manor Community Center, 34250 Cortez Blvd., Ridge Manor.

Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard has a reputation as a stomping ground for drug dealers and prostitutes, but on Sunday it was holy ground.

Of all the comforts of her new house, the shower seems to please Vietta Whitson the most.

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

Career Central will present a "Resume Writing Workshop" at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

Joe Murphy of Ridge Manor is adamantly opposed to oil drilling off Florida's gulf coast.

Bob and Carol Armstrong moved to Whispering Oaks for the serenity and beauty - not for the snakes and critters.

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.