Dan Solano is old Florida to the core. "I'm thirteenth generation," he said. "My ancestors ... came to St. Augustine with Pedro Menendez in 1565." Pedro Menendez de Aviles was a Spanish seaman who founded St. Augustine. ...more

July 9, 2008

It's a marriage made in plumbing heaven. Officials with the Bloomingdale Oaks Dependant Tax District wanted a way to water landscaping in front of their subdivision. ...more

July 5, 2008

An Oregon company with retirement villages across the country is targeting a 20-acre parcel off Lithia-Pinecrest Road for its next project. ...more

July 2, 2008

Candidates for honorary mayor of Brandon have nearly four more weeks of fundraisers planned. ...more

June 9, 2008

Resounding public protest persuaded county officials to rethink plans to cut off two well-traveled roads off Lithia-Pinecrest Road to accommodate improvements at its busy intersection with Lumsden Road. ...more

May 21, 2008

They were able to convince Hillsborough County planning commissioners. Now Lithia residents have to do the same with county commissioners if they want to stave off suburbia. ...more

February 6, 2008

They were able to convince Hillsborough County planning commissioners. Now Lithia residents have to do the same with county commissioners if they want to stave off suburbia. ...more

February 6, 2008

Dean Hamper is bringing his stuffed filets, marinated shrimp, tuna slabs and veggie kabobs to a new location on West Brandon Boulevard. ...more

January 10, 2008

In a community where soldiers once marched and Seminoles tread, there rose a monument to the horseless carriage. Today, an old gas station once known as Lewis Good Gulf, north of Lithia-Pinecrest Road, harbors pieces of the past and treasures for the future as Ft. Alafia Country Store. ...more

January 9, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners have decided to spend $801,000 to make a 3,500-acre preserve accessible to the public rather than not spending the money and risking having to pay back millions of dollars in state grants they have spent buying the land. ...more

December 26, 2007