Animal hospital opens on Countryway Blvd.
West Park Animal Hospital opened its doors last month for pet owners and their four-legged furry family members. Veterinarians Erin Hyde, Danielle Churchill, and David Gosche, along with Belle the...
View ArticleTheir mission: Turning around lives
TAMPA - When Kayla Christianson entered the House of Hope, she said she was almost "physically, emotionally and spiritually dead."Now four months later, the 32-year-old sees her life turning around -...
View ArticleHonored Tampa Metro YMCA volunteers share stories of perseverance, service,...
TAMPA - Cindy Moran credits the YMCA with saving her life."I was a person who was about 70 pounds overweight with asthma," said the Valrico resident, who in 2005 decided to join the Campo Family...
View ArticleCarrollwood, New Tampa make bid for Trader Joe's
NORTH TAMPA - Could North Tampa get two Trader Joe's grocery stores?It may - if some Carrollwood area and New Tampa residents, including two Hillsborough County commissioners, have their way. Just not...
View ArticleSunday Conversation: Strawberry Festival chair Sandee Parke Sytsma carries on...
When Roy and Helen Parke moved to Plant City in 1956 to expand their farming operation into what would eventually become the legendary Parkesdale Farms, their daughter Sandee was just 10 years old....
View ArticleCancer survivor sticks to life of adventurer as sailor, trekker, writer, nurse
TAMPA - When Alder Allensworth achieves one audacious goal, she goes after another one.So far, the 60-year-old cancer survivor has sailed 1,200 miles solo on a small boat, backpacked 500 miles alone on...
View ArticleShow examines why millennials choose to be spiritual, not religious
More than 50 percent of millennials who grew up in the church have left.Synagogues struggle to keep young singles in regular attendance. Nationwide religious leaders are asking the question, "What can...
View ArticleSpurred by $40 million capital campaign, Jesuit opens 'Gonzmart Hall'
TAMPA - For Richard Gonzmart, Jesuit High School wasn't just the place he went to study as a teenager in 1971. Jesuit was where he lay the groundwork for his life and what helped him gain the values...
View ArticleDaniel Ruth: Praise for Heights market worth repeating. Because it's so loud...
"We're the oldest people in here," the Bombshell of the Balkans said as we began walking around the newly opened Heights Public Market on the banks of the Hillsborough River. Or more accurately she...
View ArticleHillsborough officials scramble to find money for deteriorating sports fields
TAMPATwo months ago, Hillsborough County parks officials scrambled to find 2.5 million request for ongoing parks maintenance that was rejected in last year's budget cycle.Without more money,...
View ArticleJoe Henderson: Candy Olson still has ideas for improving Hillsborough County...
Candy Olson served ably on the Hillsborough County School Board for 20 years until she retired in October 2014. She felt simply that two decades was enough, noting then, "It's time for a new...
View ArticleHoward Altman: New memoir offers raw look at covering modern wars
Carmen Gentile is one of those people you meet in far-flung war zones who risk their lives covering humanity's worst moments.It was in one of those places that I met Gentile. As we waited in Kabul,...
View ArticleHooper: 'Pause for Peace' at the Strawberry Festival? Believe it.
The Florida Strawberry Festival conjures up all kinds of images and sounds.It's a super sensory smorgasbord of marvelous music, bright lights, aromatic thrills, big cheers, piercing screams, and...
View ArticleDisputed calendar gives all Hillsborough students off for fair, Strawberry...
TAMPA - Two festival days off - one for the Florida State Fair, one for the Strawberry Festival.Not one or the other, but both.Some people might have read right over that on the proposed calendar for...
View ArticleAmy Scherzer's Diary: Weekly Wrap-Up of the Tampa Social Scene
Tampa Theatre WineFest & Oscars weekendWas that Wayne and Garth or Henry Gonzalez and John Bell in a hilarious video spoofing 1992 flick, Wayne's World? The headbangers partied on most excellently...
View ArticleNew bus routes stranded employees. Now 300 jobs could leave Tampa.
TAMPA - Tampa could lose 300 jobs to San Antonio and Buffalo after changes to the local bus system last year made it more difficult for one local company to hire new employees.John Pierino, senior...
View ArticleCounty advances plans to convert wastewater facility into park
CARROLLWOOD - With the construction for Phase I of the Carrollwood Community Park starting next month, local residents attended an open house at the Carrollwood Cultural Center on Tuesday to learn...
View ArticleTampa's Franciscan Center to host interfaith event for women
Tampa Bay area women of various religious backgrounds will gather today (March 9) for the 9th Annual Women's Interfaith Prayer for Peace.And I'll reflect on how much I need to reach beyond my own...
View ArticlePipe organ, other instruments and voices celebrate Bach Birthday Bash
TAMPA - When Simon Morley first heard a pipe organ as a child at church in his hometown in southwest England, he said, he discovered his calling."I was captivated by its sound, its grandeur, its...
View ArticleFred Johnson performs Sunday at HCC Ybor
Dynamic jazz and world music vocalist Fred Johnson will perform, along with the Michael Ross Quartet, in a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Mainstage Theatre at Hillsborough Community College in Ybor...
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