After more than three years of organizing, petition-signing and meeting with local politicians, Sun City Center residents were successful today in getting approval for a golf cart path that will help them get across U.S. 301 to Walmart. Hillsborough County commissioners voted unanimously this morning to spend between $250,000 and $300,000 on the paved path, which will cross a vacant field to a signalized crossing of U.S. 301 at Cape Stone Avenue. ...more

November 4, 2009

A design review application before the Community Redevelopment Agency from the city's utilities department to complete construction of a pole barn at 454 N. Franklin St. may have opened up a can of worms. ...more

October 28, 2009

The grand opening of a 1.3-mile, four-lane thoroughfare linking Hillsborough and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards is scheduled for Aug. 25, airport officials said Monday. ...more

August 15, 2009

According to Gary Ritter, director of South Florida Water Management District, SLID is responsible for the water management system for Spring Lake, including the golf course. So if that is the case, there is no reason for SLID to buy the golf course. The current owner has stated SLID has every legal right to clear the water ways. They have an easement, he stated, at the meeting last Wednesday. If SLID buys the golf course for $3.4 million, how much more is it going to cost to clean out the ponds, canals and lakes? All the SLID board members have talked about is buying the golf course. How is this going to fix the problem without dredging the water ways? ...more

March 24, 2009

Hoping to garner more community support for their cause, parents opposed to placing a cell phone tower at Cimino Elementary School and other public schools will host a meeting at 6:30 tonight at the Bloomingdale Regional Library. Meeting organizer Louise Bravo, the parent of a Cimino Elementary student, said a groundswell of protest is the only way to stop Collier Enterprises II from placing the 100-foot cell tower at the school, at 4329 Culbreath Road, following Principal Deborah Talley's Feb. 10 decision to recommend putting up the cell tower. Cimino PTA President Pearl Chiarenza said all the studies she has seen have been inconclusive, and she is in favor of constructing the tower. ...more

February 24, 2009

The widening of Sunshine Grove Road was supposed to begin this year. ...more

February 13, 2009

Leaders for Westchase are looking into a land purchase that could lead to a park expansion. ...more

December 10, 2008

Free Market Effect Regarding "Columnist Is Naïve" (Letters, July 29): The letter writer claims that "the price of oil futures went down following upon and directly related to President Bush's changing the presidential ban on offshore drilling." He and others who agree are flat out wrong. ...more

August 2, 2008

Form letters from a Tampa law firm specializing in eminent domain issues are causing a stir in Tampa Palms and other neighborhoods along the proposed route of Progress Energy's new high-power transmission lines. ...more

July 12, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - The city council has approved a final site plan for the revitalization of Temple Terrace's downtown core. The city's redevelopment partners, Ram Development Co. and Pinnacle Realty Advisors, have agreed to purchase 20.36 acres from the city at 56th Street and Bullard Parkway for $14.9 million. ...more

July 8, 2008