The Friends of Temple Terrace Parks and Recreation will hold its annual planning session 7 p.m. Thursday at the Temple Terrace United Methodist Church, 5030 E. Busch Blvd. ...more

August 6, 2008

Families across the area are discovering changes to children's bus stops, and some of the adjustments are raising safety concerns. ...more

July 30, 2008

Families across the area are discovering changes to children's bus stops, and some of the adjustments are raising safety concerns. ...more

July 30, 2008

A former school aide who was cleared of charges she molested a 6-year-old is suing the Tampa Police Department, charging that officials violated her rights and cast her in a false light when speaking to the media about the case. ...more

July 26, 2008

A former school aide who was cleared of charges she molested a 6-year-old is suing the Tampa Police Department, charging that officials violated her rights and cast her in a false light when speaking to the media about the case. ...more

July 25, 2008

Enter our Summer Camp Photo Contest and you could win tickets to the Museum of Science & Industry or Lowry Park Zoo. ...more

July 16, 2008

This is the final Saturday edition of the South Tampa News & Tribune and Central Tampa News & Tribune. Beginning next week, all the community news, feature stories, columns, photographs and reader comments you have enjoyed on Saturdays will appear in the Wednesday editions of the News & Tribune. Updated news from your community and neighborhood is posted throughout the week at south ...more

July 12, 2008

Like the liberal arts majors many of us are, we're moving back in with our parents - in this case, Mother Trib. ...more

June 14, 2008

Enter The Central Tampa News & Tribune's Summer Camp Photo Contest and you could win tickets to the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Tampa. One runner-up will receive four (4) tickets to Lowry Park Zoo. ...more

June 13, 2008

The walk the school district has suggested children take down Cain Road to the bus stop is long, narrow and flanked by drainage ditches. Neighbors in the Woodmont community off Gunn Highway are fighting the proposal, which is part of a broader plan the district has to reduce the number of bus stops countywide. The Hillsborough County school district is starting the second year of sweeping transportation changes designed to make the busing system more efficient. Officials introduced new bus routes and bus stops last year to southern Hillsborough. This year, they are looking at south and central Tampa and northwestern Hillsborough. John Franklin, general director of transportation, said the district has too many stops. The district wants eventually to have "universal" bus stops, where the bus goes to one location for elementary, middle, high school or school choice pickups. More than 90,000 children ride district buses daily. Franklin met with parents at Sickles, Chamberlain and Farnell recently to give an overview of the plan and let them find out if their children's stops would change. Barbara Boler, who has a son in middle school, didn't expect any surprises but learned her neighborhood would lose its four elementary and three middle and high school stops for one new stop at the corner of Gunn Highway and Cain Road. Her discovery wound up mobilizing neighbors who are afraid the new stop will endanger their children. They invited Franklin to come to see for himself, and he met with about a dozen parents in Woodmont Wednesday morning. ...more

June 4, 2008