Leanne Salazar, APRN, DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice), MBA and past Chief Operating Officer at Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville, has been named Chief Nurse Executive for HCA’s West Florida Division. HCA is the nation's leading provider of healthcare services.
And although her nursing career began in the 1990s, her healing spirit seems inherent within her.
Hernando Sun Staff Report
The Hernando Environmental Land Protectors (HELP) has raised $2,000 towards the county’s Florida Sea Grant Extension shoreline restoration and enhancement project at Jenkins Creek.
Chuck Morton, president of HELP, presented Brittany Hall-Scharf, the Sea Grant Extension Agent in Hernando County, with a check at the group’s December 2019 meeting. Hall-Scharf was the guest speaker at at HELP’s Jan. 14, 2020 meeting and updated the group on current and future projects, including the ongoing aquaponics system and the upcoming living shorelines project.
By MEGAN HUSSEY
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One of the first towns settled by the Creek people in Florida, Chucochatti is highly regarded as a historical and cultural landmark for Hernando County and the State of Florida; renowned in particular, according to Jon Yeager, Hernando Historic Preservation Society member and former chairman of their Archaeological Committee, as the place that marked the site of the ethnogenesis from Creek to Seminole (https://www.hernandosun.com/article/council-says-no-archaeological-research-cemetery-property).
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BROOKSVILLE, Fla.- The first Hernando County Board of County Commissioners meeting of 2020 commenced with the election of new officers. Officers preside for a period of one year.
The new officers for 2020 are as follows: Chairman John Mitten, Vice Chairman John Allocco and Second Vice Chairman Wayne Dukes.
"Growing stronger together" is the theme and motto of the Greater Hernando Chamber of Commerce Women in Leadership Summit, an event set to take place 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM March 5th at Silverthorn Country Club, 4550 Golf Club Lane, Spring Hill.
By LISA MACNEIL
During the Dec. 18, 2019 meeting, Hernando County Commissioner Steve Champion introduced the topic of resolving to recognize the county as a Second Amendment Sanctuary or County. The language of the resolution was discussed but not settled.
by SARAH NACHIN
Hernando Sun Reporter
“Luck,” or coincidence, plus the quick action of two Hernando County sheriff’s deputies prevented an accident from becoming a tragedy when they rescued a baby from the Weeki Wachee River last Friday afternoon Jan. 3, 2020.
Steve Snell, a seasoned Marine Deputy was training another officer - Patrol Deputy Zachary Burkhart for the job. Both men were operating sheriff’s office personal watercraft (PWC) to patrol the river.
