Hernando Sun

1 week ago | hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch

NEW PORT RICHEY – The good times keep on rolling for Head Coach Lyndon Coleman and Pasco-Hernando State College’s top-ranked baseball team. They are headed to the 2025 NJCAA Division II Baseball World Series Championship final. The Bobcats punched their ticket to the big game in Enid, Oklahoma, following a dominating 11-1 semifinal victory over the Iowa Central Community College Tritons on Thursday.

1 week ago | hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch

SPRING HILL – Local multi-sport athlete Francesco Alagna has found a collegiate home. On Friday, the 17-year-old announced that he has committed to compete for Newberry College at the next level. The young boxer/wrestler/runner fielded interest from several other institutions including South Carolina and St. Leo University. He would also visit St. Thomas and Southeastern Universities before deciding on Newberry.

1 week ago | hernandosun.com | Rocco Maglio

According to data on student enrollment from the Florida Department of Education, the Hernando County School District has only gained a little over a thousand students in the last five years. In the past year, there was a slight decline with 266 fewer students in the non-charter schools and 15 fewer students in the charter schools. A reason for the relatively small increase in students is the school choice law called Step Up for Students that went into effect on July 1, 2023.

1 week ago | hernandosun.com | Rocco Maglio

There is lots of money spent on influencing people’s vote. There is little money spent supporting the gathering of local news. In fact, there were 2.5 local newspapers closing in the United States a week in 2023, according to a report from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. This is up from two newspapers closing a week in 2022. Political power brokers are seizing on the lack of local coverage and creating fake local news sites to manipulate people’s vote.

1 week ago | hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch

On the Saturday before Memorial Day, legionnaires and auxiliary members from the American Legion Post 99 on Fort Dade came out to place miniature American flags by the gravestones of fallen soldiers. Volunteers arrived even before eight in the morning to honor those heroes who rest at the historic Brooksville Cemetery on Olmes Road. That morning, Vietnam Veteran John Swald led a crew of roughly two dozen legion members in placing over 700 Star Spangled Banners alongside soldiers’ burial plots.