On Aug. 18, the new school year opens not only for all public schools in Highlands County, but also for the students attending the first Catholic school in the county. ...more

August 15, 2008

Monsignor Harold B. Bumpus of Prince of Peace Catholic Church retired July 1, the day the Rev. Joel M. Kovanis arrived to become pastor in his stead. ...more

July 23, 2008

A comment by his fourth-grade teacher has meant all the difference to Brad Brady. He overheard her exclaim how wonderful his performance in a school play was. "It was only one comment, and I wasn't supposed to hear it, but it has made a world of difference," he said. It spurred Brady to get his degree in theater education at the University of South Florida and to become the head of the theater department at Renaissance Academy, a private school in the New Port Richey area. ...more

July 2, 2008

Saint Leo University Assistant Athletic Director for External Operations/Sports Information Eddie Kenny has been named athletic director at Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School. ...more

June 10, 2008

One by one, 120 times this school year, students were called into the principal's office without warning at Tampa Catholic High School. ...more

June 2, 2008

TAMPA -- Out of the 120 students at Tampa Catholic High School randomly screened for drugs this past school year, not a single one tested positive, school administrators said today. The testing program, the only one of its kind among Hillsborough County's public or private schools, will continue next year, even though Principal Pat Landry, is retiring. ...more

May 29, 2008

In 1948, Harry Truman was re-elected president, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, Israel became a nation, the long-playing record was invented, the game of Scrabble was introduced and Boston native John Scully was ordained to the Catholic priesthood. ...more

May 10, 2008

The first phase of a three-year effort to teach the Tampa Bay area's Catholics about the core of their faith started Monday with about 3,000 people attending a daylong conference. ...more

February 5, 2008

TAMPA - The first phase of a three-year effort to teach the Tampa Bay area's Catholics about the core elements of their faith started today with about 3,000 people attending a daylong conference. ...more

February 4, 2008

Five young men are dead after a car they were riding in crashed after traveling off an airport runway at the exclusive fly-in community of Jumbolair Aviation Estates early Saturday, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

January 27, 2008