Designer clothes for kids and extra baggy pants were not the fashion a number of years ago when Jayma Hitt was a student at Woodlawn Elementary School. ...more

September 24, 2008

More than 25 Quail Hollow Elementary School students made community service part of their summer vacation plans this year. ...more

August 24, 2008

Local youths competing in last month's Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games in Detroit earned high honors in the karate division, including one teenager whose three gold medals earned her an outstanding performance award. ...more

August 13, 2008

Nothing can take away the pain of losing a 15-year-old daughter to leukemia, but the family of a former Burney Elementary School student knows she won't be forgotten at the school she loved. ...more

August 13, 2008

"G'day, mates," Darren Liebman hollered as he picked up a didgeridoo. "G'day, mates," the students screamed back. ...more

August 4, 2008

"G'day, mates," Darren Liebman hollered as he picked up a didgeridoo. "G'day, mates," the students screamed back. ...more

July 30, 2008

I came away from an election-poll-workers' training session the other day shaking my head in wonderment. Just as I felt that the registered voters of Hillsborough County, after a few elections, were becoming adjusted to using the touch-screen voting machines, we have taken a giant step backward for mankind by going to paper ballots. ...more

July 18, 2008

A CAMP OF GASTRONOMIC PROPORTIONS ...more

June 28, 2008

I'd expect our leading educators would be smarter than a fifth-grader. ...more

June 18, 2008

With her shy and soft-spoken demeanor, 11-year-old Riane Lisnock reminds you of Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz." ...more

June 15, 2008