Dig deep in your closets, all you Gen-Xers out there. Those skinny ties, fat shoulder pads and fluorescent leg warmers are making a comeback - for one weekend anyway as the J.W. Mitchell High School Thespian Troupe 6272 will turn the clock back 20 years when it presents the interactive play, "The Awesome '80s Prom." ...more

November 7, 2009

The students at Central Baptist School are growing like weeds. School officials are clamoring to keep up. ...more

July 8, 2009

Scientists have long known that the nitrogen that makes your lawn green also chokes the oxygen out of water, making it hard for fish, crabs, shrimp and other marine life to breathe. ...more

January 11, 2009

Despite leaving what Newsome softball coach Jessi Kowal-Ray described as a "small village" on the bases, the Wolves collected solid defensive and pitching performances to earn a 3-0 victory against River Ridge in the Class 5A-Region 3 semifinals April 25. ...more

December 26, 2008

Derrick Brooks is going back to Hawaii on the NFL's dime and he's taking Tampa Bays Buccaneers rookie return man Clifton Smith with him. ...more

December 16, 2008

Slip out of that city suit and into some shorts and aqua socks for a wild paddle past fishes in ditches, and shorebirds sauntering in the sand. ...more

October 13, 2008

As a service for those looking forward to the crème of the summer crop of movies, here are the movies previewed by Hernando Today that are opening in the next two weeks. ...more

June 27, 2008

Class 6A-7 Gaither won the district title last season and returns the 2007 Tampa Tribune Hillsborough County Softball Player of the Year in pitcher Morgan Grove. Countryside advanced to regionals as the runner-up, but made it to the 6A state final four where the team lost to Miami Palmetto. Sickles will be led by Troy-bound pitcher Khrystyne Ely, who was a Tribune first-team selection as a junior. Alonso battled for a fourth-place finish in the regular-season standings while Mitchell and St. Petersburg slipped to the bottom of the district. ...more

February 4, 2008

1. Chamberlain The Chiefs, who advanced to the Class 5A final four last season, return three college-bound seniors in Mary Kate Smith (Stanford), Gina Kafalas (USF) and Danielle Moreda (Saint Leo). ...more

February 4, 2008

A fifth-grade class at Robinson Elementary School was among the winners in the Tampa Bay Estuary Program's first Guardians of the Bay contest. ...more

January 14, 2008