Friends of the Friendship Trail and Bridge will meet tonight to discuss the bridge's history, status and future, and a big part of the discussion will be the range of estimated costs for repairing or replacing it. ...more

December 18, 2008

A letter from five homeowners on Glen Willow Lane has sparked a conversation about the need for traffic-calming devices in the Meadow Creek subdivision. ...more

December 10, 2008

A volunteer lobbying to expand the New Tampa Regional Library considers the effort to change its name a major distraction. ...more

December 10, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Michael Duncan walked into the children's wing at the new Town 'N Country Regional Library and gazed up and down at the shelves of books. ...more

December 10, 2008

The centerpiece of a project dreamed up eight years ago opens to the public today. Town 'N Country Commons, an $11 million complex, includes a sprawling library, a senior center and a Head Start center. It's a big change from the old site, which housed Head Start in portables and the old West Gate Regional Library. The West Gate library, at 14,000 square feet, was torn down in May 2007 and temporarily moved to an office park on West Waters Avenue. The library closed in October to prepare for its permanent move. ...more

December 3, 2008

A local dance group plans to donate proceeds of a performance next month to the teen attacked at Bloomingdale Regional Library. ...more

November 24, 2008

The 18-year-old East Bay High School student who was beaten and raped outside Bloomingdale Regional Library on April 24 returned to her south Hillsborough County home earlier this month for the first time since the attack. ...more

November 19, 2008

A community effort to add civic activist Carol Poland's name to the New Tampa Regional Library grows louder. ...more

November 19, 2008

How do you use a peanut butter and jelly recipe to teach the scientific method? If you're Carrie Sue Ayvar, you tell a story. ...more

November 16, 2008

NEW TAMPA – A community effort to add civic activist Carol Poland's name to the New Tampa Regional Library is growing louder. Friends and supporters of the Hunter's Green resident, including former Tampa Police Chief Bennie Holder, filled the Jeri Zelinzki Community Room at the New Tampa Regional Library to speak on her behalf Nov. 6. ...more

November 7, 2008