FOOD & DRINK
Rodent droppings: One Marion County restaurant temporarily closed
You can use the database to search by county or by restaurant name. Florida's restaurant owners are not required to post restaurant inspection results where guests can see them. So every week, we provide that information for you. For a complete list of local restaurant inspections, including violations not requiring...
Live music and Jimmy Buffett block party: Fun things to do this weekend in Ocala
This concert is part of the Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series and will take place 7-9 p.m. April 26 at Webb Field at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Complex, 1510 NW Fourth St., Ocala. Concerts will take place every Friday through May 17. Free admission. Bring blankets and lawn chairs. More at www.ocalafl.gov/levittamp or on Facebook @LevittAMPOcala.
We were pioneers in The Villages back in 2000
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about driving cars in the old days. The Blonde in the House has suggested that I muse on what life was like in The Villages when we moved here way back in 2000. It was different then. After a quick visit in 1999. We came back to look at lots and homes. We were put up in a villa for the night and given Village dollars that we could use to buy stuff at the stores in Spanish Springs. Spanish Springs was not finished. (No, they were not legal anywhere else.) In fact, the big building at the top of the Square was not there. What was there was a tent, and there was another tent where a number of restaurants have been. They sold farmer’s goods out of the latter tent.
A free book each month for preschoolers, thanks to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Waylon Piechowiak was laughing and running around a play area inside the Early Learning Coalition of Marion County building on Thursday. His mother, Elizabeth Ekleberry, an employee at the center, smiled as she watched her son. Ekleberry said she loves to read. She reads a book to Waylon and his 10-year-old brother every night before the kids go to bed. ...
Check out video of alligator taking a stroll on golf course in The Villages
Check out this video of an alligator taking a stroll on a golf course in The Villages. Mark Mendelsohn of the Village of Osceola Hills captured this video of an alligator crossing the fairway at Belle Glade on Calusa #1. In celebration of courtship and mating season, share your alligator...
Ocala’s inaugural “Workout with the Mayor” event planned for May
Ocala’s mayor is celebrating his birthday in the best way he knows how—by getting citizens up and active to promote health and wellbeing. Mayor Ben Marciano is launching a new program called “Workout with the Mayor” with its inaugural event taking place on May 4 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Mary Sue Rich Community Center at Reed Place, 1821 NW 21st Ave.
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