Pearl Chiarenza toured dozens of houses for sale in Hillsborough County, but she said the minute she pulled off Bell Shoals Road to see a listing in South Oak, she knew she had found her family's new home. ...more

November 28, 2007

CLASS NOTES ePEP Meetings Eighth-grade students are now required to complete an electronic Personal Education Planner (ePEP) before promotion into ninth grade. ...more

November 17, 2007

Emphatic protests over a plan to extend John Moore Road and bring more traffic through residential neighborhoods have forced planners to cancel the proposal. ...more

October 31, 2007

They're the roadside equivalent of junk mail - tiny signs that advertise everything imaginable: cheap houses, health insurance, eligible singles, telemarketing jobs and even salvation. ...more

October 31, 2007

Long tapped for recreation, industry and irrigation needs, the Alafia River also has become a major source of drinking water for the growing Tampa Bay region. ...more

October 18, 2007

It seems so easy on an aerial map. Just draw a line a few millimeters long connecting two dead-end roads, and you create a transportation corridor. ...more

October 10, 2007

For the third consecutive month, the Southwest Florida Water Management District has authorized regional supplier Tampa Bay Water to continue skimming nearly twice the percentage of Alafia River flow allowed by permit. ...more

October 8, 2007

For years, researchers tried to figure out how much water can be pumped from the Alafia River to meet humans' needs without upsetting the delicate habitat that fish and young marine life need to survive. ...more

October 6, 2007

Don't hem us in. That was the refrain from more than two dozen residents to county planners overseeing an effort to define how Brandon should grow. ...more

September 29, 2007

To many parents, it seemed nonsensical. A plan to make school bus service more efficient meant their children would have to cross Bell Shoals Road, one of the busiest north-south arteries in Brandon, just as commuters were rushing to work from their houses, condos and town homes in this booming bedroom community. ...more

September 5, 2007