Elementary school children - including a group from South Shore - were recently asked to express their hopes for the future. ...more

December 23, 2009

Some people light up a room when they arrive. Sweetbay Supermarkets customers will light up the freezer aisle in the company's new Tarpon Springs store. ...more

December 5, 2009

Some people light up the room when they arrive. Sweetbay Supermarket customers will light up the freezer aisle in the company's new Tarpon Springs store. Opened last month on South Pinellas Avenue, Sweetbay built the store as a virtual showcase of eco-friendly, energy-saving projects not usually seen in grocery stores. There are motion sensors that turn on lights only when customers walk nearby. And huge areas of the stores have refrigerators with glass doors, rather than open-air shelves. ...more

December 4, 2009

The University Area Development Corp. will sponsor its fourth annual Confetti Celebration to raise money for programs serving children and families in the University Area. ...more

November 11, 2009

Scott Settlemire stood amid the hundreds of cars at the Tampa Bay International Auto Show and wondered, for a moment, what it would be like if there was one vehicle that fit all our needs. ...more

October 23, 2009

Hillsborough Community College President Gwendolyn W. Stephenson announced Friday she plans to retire next June. ...more

October 17, 2009

Cub Scout Pack 801 is seeking new members. The pack is hosting an organizational meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the cafeteria at Hunter's Green Elementary, 9202 Highland Oak Drive. ...more

September 2, 2009

A lawn maintenance man in Lutz was bitten by a pygmy rattler Monday, the second such attack in two weeks. ...more

August 25, 2009

Esther Orreno, 87, said she wasn't scared when she fought a pygmy rattlesnake with her cane earlier this week and squeezed it to death with her right hand. ...more

August 14, 2009

One fatality was reported Monday when a pygmy rattlesnake bit an 87-year-old woman on the hand. The final score: Cane-wielding octogenarian, 1: venomous snake, 0. ...more

August 10, 2009