Wildwood News

This letter is in regard to the recent "reshuffling" of the Wildwood Middle School, due to an alleged shortfall of the budget.

The FHP says a van carrying 11 people crashed after a pickup truck sideswiped it.

While driving home Monday from Orlando, Inverness resident Robert Lentz made a routine stop at a BP gas station in Wildwood to fill his pickup truck.

Hernando Computer Club will present "Picasa a ' Import, Organize, Improve your Photos," part one of two, by Fred Wise in the South Room at 10 a.m.; and "Get comfortable with your PC" part two of two, by Joann Frucchione in the North Room at 1 p.m., both on Wednesday, May 13, at Grace Presbyterian Church located at 8375 Spring Hill Drive, Spring ...

A former Leesburg High School student was killed in an early morning car crash Monday, Wildwood police said.

A severe thunderstorm warning is issued for eastern Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando and western Polk counties.

Opening arguments began today in the case of whether a California-based water bottling company should be allowed to pump nearly half-a-million gallons of water a day from the Floridan Aquifer near Groveland.

For 25 years, Regina L. Peeples tried to deal with the secret she felt she had to hide, that as a child she was the victim of sexual abuse.

Sumter County officials want to set aside land for industrial and commercial development before housing creeps in from the east and north.

The Humane Society of Lake County is seeking volunteers for its annual "WestMUTTster Dog Show," scheduled for November at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Eustis.

The Hernando Performing Arts Guild is selling season tickets for the 2009-10 season.

First United Methodist Church of Clermont , 950 Seventh St., will host a community Easter egg hunt and festival, featuring the sights and sounds of Jerusalem in A.D. 29, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at the church.

Christ Lutheran Church will be taking Angel Food orders for April at the church located at 475 North Avenue West, Brooksville.

WILDWOOD a ' A man convicted of dealing drugs too close to a local high school and museum lost a recent appeal.

The school tax rate here will decrease a fraction of a penny under the school district's 2009-10 budget.

Colleen Hopkins was stuffing coolers and grocery bags with beef top sirloin steaks as part of her monthly volunteer work Saturday morning.

Northbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike have been closed in Sumter County. The turnpike is closed at US-301 in Wildwood; mile marker 304.

A 64-year-old Zephyrhills woman died this afternoon after her car hit a power pole in Sumter County, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Published: Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 12:39 a.m. Trucking might be a man's world, even today, but women run Florida's shiniest truck stop.

Barbara Ann Ellam, 74, of The Villages, passed away Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. Arrangements entrusted to Banks/Page-Theus Funeral Home, Wildwood, Fla.