My family's favorite holiday is here again. It’s time to go through the old cookbooks and magazines to get out those recipes the family cannot do without on Thanksgiving...
In Any Event: Celebrating the holidays the Florida way
20 businesses have signed up to participate in the Storefront Window Decorating Contest with that as the theme. They will be judged on best overall design, most creative, people’s choice and best ...
Agriculture and labor council hand out awards
The 40th Annual meeting and luncheon of the Northern Region Advisory Council of the Agricultural and Labor Program entilted Helping People Changing Lives was recently held. The business session wa...
Meandering$: Arab and Jew walk hand-in-hand
I am an Arab Christian. I hold dear a loving command given me by an exceptionally gifted Jewish peacemaker. It changed my life forever. A couple decades ago, Hedy Schliefer, with her husband Yumi...
A Veteran's Letter to the Editor
This letter is about my uncle James who played a critical role in my growth towards manhood. I, too, am a veteran of war (Iraq 2005-2006). Currently I am the Dean of Students at Winter Springs Hig...
In Any Event: A do Over for Oktoberfest
Who doesn’t like a chance for a “do-over”? It will be wunderbar in downtown Sanford as we kick off the Alive After 5 autumn celebration with “Oktoberfest” on Thursday…
Americans went to the polls in record numbers to vote for our next president – and I will be very happy to not see another political ad on my television for a long while. We are very passionate ab...
Chief Brian Tooley’s response to my Centennial Forum last weekend sounds like corporate public relations. It was a ‘dog and pony’ show rather than an outline of what actions Chief Tooley should t...
I confess I’m overwhelmed by many surging feelings, by prayers answered, by, at last, real possibilities ahead for our beleaguered country. In the weeks preceding this election, admittedly, I w...
In this age of super Bluetooths, Blackberries, and G-Phones that help us communicate, Veterans Day 2008 reminds us that we are quickly losing the stories of our oldest veterans from WWII. As the...
In Sunday’s Sanford Herald Centennial Forum, writer Maria Shreve expressed what many of us are feeling: a sense of anger or frustration over crime in our city...