Parents opposed to a cell phone tower at Cimino Elementary School are urging likeminded parents to attend a March 16 Hillsborough County zoning hearing in a last-ditch effort to stop the tower from being erected. ...more

March 4, 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

Parents from eight Hillsborough County elementary and middle schools turned out in force Jan. 28 to support a group fighting to keep cell towers off school campuses. ...more

February 4, 2009

Parents from eight Hillsborough County elementary and middle schools turned out in force Wednesday night to support a group fighting to keep cell towers off school campuses. ...more

January 29, 2009

Following the example of parents at Coleman Elementary School in South Tampa, concerned parents of students attending Cimino Elementary in Bloomingdale East are protesting the construction of a cellular phone tower on school property. ...more

January 28, 2009

Following the example of parents at Coleman Elementary School in South Tampa, concerned parents of students attending Cimino Elementary in Bloomingdale East are protesting the construction of a cellular phone tower on school property. ...more

January 26, 2009

At some point during a contentious night, Coleman Middle School Principal Michael Hoskinson said, "My job is to look at the opportunity, the good, the bad and the ugly." ...more

January 11, 2009

A grand opening celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Hillsborough County Seffner-Mango Branch Library will begin at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the library, 410 N. Kingsway Road. ...more

January 9, 2009

This South Tampa community is gearing up for what likely will be a heated discussion tonight of the possibility of erecting a 100-foot cellphone tower on the campus of Coleman Middle Scho ...more

January 7, 2009

Plans to erect a cellphone tower at Coleman Middle School have parents and campus neighbors in a stir. ...more

December 17, 2008