Parents soon may register their 4- and 5-year-olds for the summer session of voluntary prekindergarten, which runs from June 23 through Aug. 4 at 21 sites in Hillsborough County, including 10 in east Hillsborough. ...more

June 11, 2008

Adults led groups of children from table to table to try their tiny hands at a variety of paper crafts. They glued cotton balls to bunnies' backs, dipped butterflies on Popsicle sticks into pans of glitter and pasted petals onto smiley-faced flowers. ...more

February 24, 2008

SEBRING — Renovations to Sebring Fire Department's Central Station were supposed to be completed by now, but the major work hasn't even started yet. The $500,000 project, which started in February, originally was slated for a December 2007 completion, but now city officials said a more realistic target is summer 2008. The project to renovate the historic station, located at 301 N. Mango St., will soon be rebid for a third time. The first bids were rejected because the fire department staff had not had adequate time to review the specifics of the project before the project was bid. "They had a lot of input about changes they wanted to see, and we didn't have time to include that in the original bids," City Administrator Bob Hoffman said. "We asked city council to reject those bids so that their suggestions could be included." ...more

December 21, 2007

Whenever Karen Rockwell thought about what kind of business she wanted to run, Rita's Water Ice was always on her radar screen. ...more

November 26, 2007

TAMPA Incorporarse a los mercados internacionales, en particular al de Estados Unidos, es el reto de la empresaria peruana Rosa Espinoza. ...more

October 26, 2007

A checkpoint this week to crack down on drunken driving will be dedicated to slain Hillsborough County sheriff's Sgt. Ron Harrison. ...more

October 22, 2007