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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

UF/IFAS Sumter County Extension Master Gardener Plant Sale set for Saturday  

You can pickup plants and great gardening tips at the plant sale this weekend.
You can pickup plants and great gardening tips at the plant sale this weekend.

The Sumter County Master Gardeners Plant Sale will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Wildwood Community Center, 6500 Powell Road.

The plant selection will include native plants, herbs, perennials, annuals and grasses as well as ornamental rocks and garden art, all at affordable prices.  The best-selling book, “Gardening in Sumter County Month-by-Month” will also be available for purchase.  

Get answers your gardening questions at our ever-popular “Ask the Master Gardener” Booth. Proceeds support the UF/IFAS Master Gardener educational events and outreach programs. For further information, contact the Sumter County Extension Office in Bushnell:  352-569-6870; in The Villages: 352-689-4673; or by email at: AskTheMasterGardener@ifas.ufl.edu.

Let them keep the fence!

A Village of Palo Alto resident, in a Letter to the Editor, expresses support for a couple in The Villages fighting to keep a fence to keep out elements of the outside world.

There are truly wonderful people in The Villages

In a Letter to the Editor, a Village of DeLuna resident expresses thanks for a kind couple who did him a huge favor. He does not know them, but he is very grateful.

Thank You Marsha Shearer

A Village of Piedmont resident expresses his thanks to Marsha Shearer for information in her recent Opinion piece. But we sense a little sarcasm.

People have a right to feel safe in their homes

A Fruitland Park woman who regularly travels on Cherry Lake Road expresses support for a Village of Caroline couple fighting to keep stockade-style fence to protect their property. Read her Letter to the Editor

No vending machines at recreation center

A Hacienda of Mission Hills resident is questing the lack of vending machines at a recreation center.