The fast start to the season for the Plant City High boys soccer team does not surprise its new head coach. ...more

December 9, 2009

It's not because I'm single and unattached that Valentine's Day fills me with a kind of internal cringing normally reserved for the sound of nails dragging down a chalkboard. It's not sour grapes or cynicism gone amuck. It's simply that Valentine's Day is, and nearly always has been, a crass, "What the heck am I going to get him or her" competition, that devalues spontaneity, simplicity, romance and - I'm pulling out the big guns here - most of all, love. ...more

February 14, 2009

Gulf collected its sixth SAC tournament title in nine years, qualifying 10 wrestlers for the finals. ...more

January 31, 2009

NORTHDALE Michele Northrup's idea for her gourmet organic-sauce business sprouted in the garden at Learning Gate Community School. ...more

July 23, 2008

Call it a hall monitor's holiday: Cypress Elementary students walked or ran around during a mostly outdoors school day to raise money for an open-air classroom. ...more

May 7, 2008

A county's comprehensive land-use plan should be more reliable than an erasable chalkboard. Yet because politicians are so quick to help developers by passing growth-plan amendments, citizens are stepping up to change the rules of the game. ...more

November 12, 2007

Playing a crafty game of dominoes is half the challenge at Centro Asturiano de Tampa, one of a few hangouts representing a throwback to the cigar-making days when workers took regular dominoes breaks. ...more

November 3, 2007

Playing a crafty game of dominoes is half the challenge at Centro Asturiano de Tampa, one of a few hangouts representing a throwback to the cigar-making days when workers took regular dominoes breaks. ...more

November 3, 2007

Residents of Darby, St. Joseph and other areas in rural northeast Pasco County were rightfully alarmed about plans by a developer to build 300 homes on 475 acres just west of Interstate 75. The land is in a rural protection area, where many homes are on tracts of 5 and 10 acres and even larger, and the requested density was highly inappropriate. ...more

September 14, 2007

The Bucs did not waste any time re-signing RB Kenneth Darby and six other players to their practice squad a day after their release. ...more

September 3, 2007