Weeki Wachee News

Hernando County took an important step toward becoming greener earlier this month - and actually more purple as well.

Kasey O'Brien, 12, runs with her 2-year-old bull mastiff, Scarlet, earlier this month in Brooksville as they prepare for an important show: the American Kennel Club Invitational Eukanuba National Championship on Dec.

Nature Coast Festival Singers will present three Christmas concerts featuring the Christmas Choruses from Handel's "The Messiah," traditional carols, and other joyous works of the season.

Inspiration comes from many places and takes many forms - driftwood fish, fantasy bubble wands and even monkey-face night lights.

"In Florida, handing over resources in exchange for economic development has been a part of the state's heritage since the Legislature traded all that swampland for railroad lines in the 1800s." - From "Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S," by Cynthia Barnett.

Live mermaid shows?! Yes, in the 12 person town of Weeki Wachee in Florida, there is such a thing.

Certitude is always easier to come by than certainty. When I started covering St.

Hernando's high schoolers and soon-to-be freshmen can now study the proposed attendance boundaries for the 2010 school year.

According to a recent Career Builder survey , 64 percent of workers who were laid off in the last 12 months have applied for positions that were below the job level they held previously.

Submarine Veterans Inc., Weeki Wachee Base, will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at Marine Corps League Detachment 708 located at 8405 Sunshine Grove Road, off State Road 50, Brooksville.

Exhibitors, apply now for Fall Harvest of Art Tuesday is the deadline for exhibitor applications for the Spring Hill Art League's 36th annual Fall Harvest of Art show, Nov.

Cub Scouts to host garage sale, carwash Cub Scout Pack 303 will host a community garage sale and carwash Nov.

Divers have recovered the body of a Kentucky man who died Tuesday evening while diving in underwater caverns in the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office.

A Clearwater man was arrested Tuesday after a sheriff's deputy observed him soliciting at an intersection, according to an arrest report.

Central High School principal Dennis McGeehan is no stranger to the experience of opening a new school.

Fire Commissioner Amy Brosnan has said emphatically she did not violate any residency requirement when she was elected to the fire board last year.

A Weeki Wachee man was arrested Thursday on charges of lewd and lascivious battery for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl in 2008.

Members of the Hernando County SPCA are amazed that a seven year old poodle, named Liberace, is still alive.

The murder suspect led them to the makeshift gravesite Friday night. Twenty hours later sheriff's deputies and forensic specialists were still at the scene digging into the sand while preserving all of the evidence they could find.

Beyond Hair will sponsor a day of haircuts from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at its salon located at 11211 Spring Hill Drive, Abbey Plaza, Spring Hill.