Parents opposed to a cell phone tower at Cimino Elementary School are urging likeminded parents to attend a March 16 Hillsborough County zoning hearing in a last-ditch effort to stop the tower from being erected. ...more

March 4, 2009

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

Local skateboarders have a month to brush up on a batch of new extreme tricks before the opening of the New Tampa Skate Park. ...more

February 21, 2009

Children at Schwarzkopf Elementary will have more ways to get exercise during the school day once a $14,000 fitness circuit opens. ...more

February 18, 2009

Children at Schwarzkopf Elementary will have more ways to get exercise during the school day once a $14,000 fitness circuit opens. ...more

February 18, 2009

Now that the Pinellas School District has decided to close a number of schools to save money, people at Palm Harbor Elementary School, which is on the closure list, will continue to focus until the end on education, its PTA president says. That would be a good way to say farewell to the 82-year-old school. ...more

January 17, 2009

Sherrie Candelaria, a PTA president and mother of five from Wesley Chapel, is dead set on voting for Sarah Palin, a former PTA president and mother of five from Alaska. ...more

October 23, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Imagine School at Land O' Lakes is barely more than a month old, but it is a school in transition. ...more

September 27, 2008

Joyce Wieland will have one last first day. The principal of Westchase Elementary, Wieland started her new job as a school district general director on Monday. But she didn't want to abandon her school when classes resume Monday, so she will continue to work out of Westchase until her successor is named. ...more

August 13, 2008

Chamberlain had the volunteers, the energy and the experience with festivals. ...more

October 25, 2007