A middle school opening in Citrus Park could trigger boundary changes from Town 'N Country to Lutz. ...more

January 30, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - When word spread that the efforts to bring the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Volunteer Citizen Patrol program to Town 'N Country had failed, a group made it their mission to make things right. ...more

January 28, 2008

Most customers come into Rapid Refill Ink toting an empty printer cartridge looking for ink. ...more

January 28, 2008

A middle school opening in Citrus Park could trigger boundary changes from Town 'N Country to Lutz. ...more

January 28, 2008

More than 1,500 middle school students in northwestern Hillsborough County could get moved to different schools under a series of proposed boundary changes. Parents got a first look at the plans at a community meeting Wednesday night, and many were angry about what they saw. The school district needs to reassign some students to fill a new middle school opening in August in Citrus Park, and officials also want to reduce crowding at other schools. The plans, which are not final, would involve transferring 1,024 students from Davidsen and Walker middle schools into the new Smith Middle. Davidsen, then, could accept students from crowded Farnell, near Westchase, and Walker could absorb some from Martinez in Lutz. ...more

January 24, 2008

Environmentalism has taken off with such force at Westchase Elementary School that one third-grader asked the principal whether the balloons she was using at an assembly were Earth-friendly. ...more

January 19, 2008

With ingenuity, a can-do attitude and the love of her children, Stacey Pettinato overcame sudden blindness to continue living a full life. ...more

January 9, 2008

WESTCHASE- Mosaicist Bérangère Kinsey is displaying his art at the Upper Tampa Bay Library beginning Jan. 3. ...more

January 2, 2008

While criminals in the northwest region of Hillsborough County made some headlines in 2007, efforts at crime prevention also were in the news, with a community policing patrol established in Westchase and a visit by Sheriff David Gee to Sickles High School to stress the importance of citizens helping deputies prevent crime. ...more

December 31, 2007

A neighborhood crime watch coordinator is upset that a woman who authorities say lied about being attacked on a northwest Tampa street last week isn't facing charges for making a false report. ...more

December 29, 2007