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

On a recent sunny afternoon, a dozen youngsters played in a circle with a rainbow-colored parachute in the playground outside Witter Elementary school in Tampa. A few yards away stood a new 200-foot cell phone tower. ...more

February 17, 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

For almost two years Countryway residents have been battling for or against the placement of a 155-foot cell tower in their neighborhood. In less than 15 days, they will know whether the cell tower is in or out. ...more

May 3, 2008

It's an undertaking city officials say has been well worth the wait. ...more

January 23, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - It's an undertaking city officials say has been well worth the wait. On Jan. 15, the Temple Terrace City Council unanimously approved a lease agreement with Verizon Wireless to fund and install a 150-foot cell tower on 1,305 square feet of city-owned property west of Fire Station No. 1 at 124 Bullard Parkway. ...more

January 22, 2008