SEBRING — As the School Board of Highlands County looks to increase transportation charges for field trips, high fuel prices are affecting high school athletics. The cost for using school buses for athletic road trips comes out of the money brought in through fundraising. ...more

June 21, 2008

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

June 18, 2008

Tony Santoro said he is at a loss over what to do about the fast traffic just outside the door of his Lutz home. ...more

June 14, 2008

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

June 11, 2008

It was a day for just being a kid. Last week, more than 100 students from Hernando County's STAR alternative education center piled onto school buses and arrived for a particularly special field trip: A day at Buccaneer Bay water park at Weeki Wachee Springs. ...more

May 21, 2008

Local kids get day at Buccaneer Bay for good behavior. ...more

May 20, 2008

Members of the New Port Richey Fire Department used electric and hydraulic tools to cut into an old school bus Monday as they trained for rescuing people trapped in accidents involving school buses. The New Port Richey Marine Institute donated three buses to the fire department to assist in the training. The fire department's firefighters are participating in training this week, and some members are training to be recertified with the Florida Urban Search and Rescue team, which includes the New Port Richey Fire Department. ...more

May 20, 2008

I would like to make a suggestion in order to save some money on gas for publicly funded vehicles. I think we should charge parents of the public school system children $10 per day to ride the bus to school since they, too, are "wasting gas." ...more

May 9, 2008

Severe weather howled through much of the nation Sunday, producing damaging tornadoes in the South that injured nearly 30 people and treating winter-weary parts of the Midwest to freezing rain, snow and flooding. ...more

February 18, 2008

Local officials are concerned over the impact Curtis Fundamental School will have on traffic in the Dunedin neighborhood surrounding the school's soon-to-be campus on Milwaukee Avenue. Rather than just worrying, however, city staffers are taking steps to prevent gridlock from forming along the two-lane avenue at the beginning and end of each school day. ...more

February 2, 2008