new science standards approved a year ago by the state Board of Education promote a hands-on approach that appears to be winning nods of approval from many teachers. ...more

March 3, 2009

For three days, Young Middle Magnet students had a chance to experience nature in all forms. ...more

February 28, 2009

Five-year old Roy Yerrakadu wriggled and giggled from the tickle of a paintbrush on his cheek at First Baptist Church of Brandon, where dozens of pint-sized partygoers were treated to an artsy array of activities featuring face paints, music, glitter and glue. ...more

February 25, 2009

Steinbrenner High School is still working out the courses, clubs and extracurricular activities it will offer when it opens in August, but Principal Brenda Grasso could put to rest one persistent - and odd - rumor. ...more

February 25, 2009

Steinbrenner High School is still working out the courses, clubs and extracurricular activities it will offer when it opens in August, but Principal Brenda Grasso could put to rest one persistent - and odd - rumor. ...more

February 25, 2009

For three days, Young Middle Magnet students had a chance to experience nature in all forms. ...more

February 25, 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

Local skateboarders have a month to brush up on a batch of new extreme tricks before the opening of the New Tampa Skate Park. ...more

February 21, 2009

Steinbrenner High School is still working out the courses, clubs and extracurricular activities it will offer when it opens in August, but Principal Brenda Grasso could put to rest one persistent – and odd – rumor. The school mascot "absolutely will not" be the Sea Turtles. ...more

February 18, 2009

Children at Schwarzkopf Elementary will have more ways to get exercise during the school day once a $14,000 fitness circuit opens. ...more

February 18, 2009