LAND O' LAKES - Moon Lake Elementary is about to get a new principal for the second time in less than five months. ...more

July 31, 2008

By RONNIE BLAIR The Tampa Tribune LAND O' LAKES Moon Lake Elementary is about to get a new principal for the second time in less than five months. Cara Allen, principal at Giella Elementary, will transfer Aug. 10 to take over the leadership role at Moon Lake. The Pasco County School Board approved Allen's appointment Tuesday evening. She succeeds Susan Barcellino, who came to Pasco County from Collier County in March to take the Moon Lake principal job. Barcellino has resigned because she is moving back to Collier County to resume working for the school district there. The district has not yet chosen a new principal for Giella Elementary. Allen is a veteran educator and administrator. She began her career in 1984 as a teacher in Hernando County, according to a school district memorandum. In 1994, she was hired as an assistant principal at Gulfside Elementary and later also served as an assistant principal at Sand Pine Elementary. She became principal at Giella Elementary in 2001. Allen holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and a master's degree in education from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. ...more

July 30, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Eighteen Pasco County schools in need of improvement will receive additional support services from the state under a federal pilot program launched Tuesday by the Florida Department of Education. ...more

July 30, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- Widening of Decubellis Road by 2009 might fix a traffic bottleneck near River Ridge High School, county commissioners learned today. ...more

July 15, 2008

Peggy Sue Abbott's attorney advised her to take her first-degree murder charge to a jury. Two mental health counselors who have known her for years gave her the same advice. ...more

July 11, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - The second woman charged with killing her 47-year-old boyfriend in what authorities called a ménage a trois gone bad pleaded guilty to second-degree murder today. ...more

July 10, 2008

First the bad news: The moribund housing industry has put a major crimp in Pasco County's road-building plans. ...more

June 29, 2008

No sooner had detectives made arrests in two recent home invasions than two additional cases put them back to work. ...more

June 28, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- West Pasco Habitat for Humanity will recruit more volunteers this Saturday to its mission of helping build homes for lower-income residents who otherwise couldn't afford them. ...more

June 18, 2008

Drivers on State Road 54 could get relief sooner than planned after county officials on Thursday put widening the highway east of Curley Road near the top of the county's list of priority road projects. ...more

June 13, 2008