The Brandon East Bay Chapter of the American Sewing Guild, which draws many of its members from the Sun City Center and Riverview areas, stepped in for Santa last month when they delivered stockings to seniors at Central Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center on Kings Avenue in Brandon. The stockings went to a group of residents known as the Sisterhood of the Scarlet Bonnets. ...more

January 5, 2008

If you want to improve your community, the city wants to hear from you. ...more

January 5, 2008

Some people's visions are a bit more detailed than others. When it came to drafting a vision statement for the Brandon Community Plan, some members of the plan's steering committee wanted a terse document. ...more

December 22, 2007

TAMPA - With the rubble of Central Park Village serving as a backdrop and the fog-shrouded skyline of downtown Tampa peering over the oak trees, an already gutted Meacham Alternative School started to fall this morning. ...more

November 30, 2007

LARGO - A 400-pound, 6-foot-tall statue depicting two children raising an American flag has been stolen from Largo Central Park, Largo police announced this afternoon. ...more

November 19, 2007

The nearly 500 families of Central Park Village are gone. The public housing apartments they lived in have been demolished. ...more

November 14, 2007

Designer Ivanka Ska sells inventive, custom-made fashions at a boutique in an unlikely location. ...more

October 15, 2007

The story of the first water buffaloes in the United States is a little-known tale of a Southern rice plantation, Yankee barbecue and New York's Central Park Zoo. Now, 150 years later, the beasts are back, this time as part of a historical exhibit. ...more

October 14, 2007

They came for one last look, to reflect on a lifetime of memories made, to see old friends and faces from the past. ...more

October 7, 2007