Yard signs opposing construction of a cellphone tower at Coleman Middle School greeted hundreds of people who came to the South Tampa campus Wednesday evening to discuss the matter. ...more

January 7, 2009

Signs in neighbors' yards, a petition, weeks of telephone calls and angst will culminate with a community meeting to discuss a proposed cell phone tower at Coleman Middle School. ...more

January 7, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Parents will get a chance this month to weigh in with their views on proposed attendance boundaries for two schools opening in August. ...more

January 3, 2009

Gumdrops, cookies, sprinkles and frosting were flowing freely at Quail Hollow Elementary School Dec. 18 when students and their parents gathered in the cafeteria to create dozens of colorful gingerbread houses. ...more

December 24, 2008

Shyness can be a normal and expected behavior, especially in new situations. ...more

December 22, 2008

The mood was delightful inside the cafeteria of Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point for the annual holiday gift basket distribution last week. ...more

December 19, 2008

The weather outside was frightful on a cold, rain-swept Friday morning. But the mood was so delightful inside the cafeteria of Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point for the annual holiday gift basket distribution. Some 77 needy families in West Pasco will have happy holidays as a result, the Rev. Jack Long, the pastor at the hospital, emphasized. ...more

December 17, 2008

Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. ...more

November 20, 2008

Greeted by hundreds of clapping students, about 175 volunteers came ready to work this morning. The Tampa Bay area's first Huddle Up at Shaw Elementary School had about 150 T-Mobile Florida employees and about 25 team members from City Year, a national youth service organization. ...more

November 20, 2008

Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. That's when the hundreds of teenage girls at the screening I attended began shrieking. We're talking Beatles-at-Shea Stadium sort of shrieking. ...more

November 20, 2008