Tag Archives: The Village

The Williston's annual Central Florida Peanut Festival's success inspired the chamber's Christmas events committee chairman, Michael Langston, to do something different from years past.

Jeff Suggs is one of the youngest residents at The Village and by all accounts one of the kindest.

Tony Magnifico is a U.S. Marine veteran of Vietnam, boxing trainer, retired construction worker and husband to a Vietnamese woman he met on a return trip to the country.

The depiction of the Vietnam War in popular culture just isn’t for Terry Coons. He lived it, as a member of the Army’s 23rd Infantry Division in 1969 and 1970. This memory from those 13 months has never left him: A young Vietnamese girl in a nearby village was burned …

Lewis Alston’s military career was over by age 19. His time as a reconnaissance scout in the U.S. Marine Corps ended after he was wounded, but he faced what turned out to be a 15-year struggle to leave “a dark place — very, very dark.” He’s battled the effects of …

His story is well known within the Gainesville veterans community, but after all these decades, Scott Camil will still sit down to show and tell those willing to listen about his evolution from well-trained soldier to peace activist. He was twice wounded as a Marine in country, then again by …

The Southwest Florida Water Management Company issued a phase one water shortage, affecting water use in The Villages. This is the first shortage issued in more than six years.