Aripeka News

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.

Rehab hospital gets okay to adds 35 beds The Hernando County Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday approved HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital's request to add 35 beds and remodel its Spring Hill facility.

Depending on where you live in Hernando County, you saw a sizable amount of rain this week.

Get out your flippers and your shucking knives, it's that time of year again. The recreational harvest season for bay scallops begins July 1 and continues through Sept.

Get out the snorkels and load up the boat with dip nets: scallop season is nearly upon us.

The recreational harvest season for bay scallops begins July 1 and continues through Sept.

Rock Band Jam Session for teens: 1 to 3 p.m., Spring Hill Branch/Harold G. Zopp Memorial Library, 9220 Spring Hill Drive.

"Hurricane and Trees" free horticulture class: 10 a.m., Spring Hill Branch/Harold G. Zopp Memorial Library, 9220 Spring Hill Drive.