Bahama Breeze adds to Cypress Creek mix
Bahama Breeze Island Grille will open a new restaurant at 3 p.m. on Monday (July 16) in Wesley Chapel.Located across the street from the Tampa Premium Outlets, Bahama Breeze is joining the ever...
View ArticleMarch column: Transit petition has "steep hill"
Leaders of an effort to put a Hillsborough County transportation sales tax referendum on the November ballot say they're confident they'll gather enough petition signatures in time.But they may have to...
View ArticleStraz parking ironed out
TAMPA - Parking at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts is never easy, but a recent resolution to a zoning dispute with the city means it won't grow more difficult to find a space.An...
View ArticleTampa's Women of Color Golf introduces sport to eager demographic
TAMPAWhen Clemmie Perry was laid off from a Fortune 500 company five years ago, she didn't waste any time agonizing over her loss.Instead, she signed up for golf lessons.Learning how to play the game...
View ArticleTampa BMX race celebrates memory of Leukemia victim
Race for Life starts at 2 p.m. on its rescheduled date, Sunday, at Tampa BMX, 17302 Dale Mabry Highway in Lutz.Each year USA BMX holds a series of Race for Life events nationwide to help in the fight...
View ArticleWhitman: Jesus Culture's Kim Walker Smith emerges from postpartum depression...
Kim Walker Smith, the lead singer for world renown worship band Jesus Culture, felt overwhelmed and dazed following the birth of her second son. She cried without knowing why. She mumbled her words....
View ArticleHooper: Yes America, some people thrive without smartphones
Since I've reconnected with my grade school friend Joe Pankowski, I've admired the compassion he holds for his wife and sons.An attorney, he's in a profession that can wear on a marriage, but from all...
View ArticleDaniel Ruth: Rays stadium dream masks the sticker shock
Close your eyes and dream. It is October 2023 or so and the Tampa Bay Rays are up 3-0 in the World Series against the Chicago Cubs. The game is being played in the Rays new stadium, Goldman Sachs, Bank...
View ArticleHCSO mourns loss of 'selfless warrior.'
He was always willing to help, inspire and service others even at a time when he was helpless.Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Jonathan Black used his Facebook page - Our Battle through...
View ArticleEpicurean to host fourth annual Epic Chef Showdown for Feeding Tampa Bay
The Epicurean Hotel, 1207 S Howard Ave., plays host to the seven-week Epic Chef Showdown Feeding Tampa Bay benefit from 6:30 to 9 p.m each Monday starting July 16 running through to Aug. 27.Local...
View ArticleTampa 9-year-old fosters dreams by swimming with the Florida Aquarium sharks
TAMPA - Gigi Suszynski and her father Nick Suszynski stood on the deck above the steps of the mammoth salt-water tank.Sporting diving wetsuits, they strapped on oxygen tasks and donned masks. Yet as...
View ArticleHumane Society launches plans for DeBartolo Family Animal Shelter
In a cage inside a room at the Humane Society of Tampa Bay's intake building sits Rocky, a small, quiet dog with a dark coat and long wispy bangs.To the left and right of him are other cages filled...
View ArticleSunday Conversation: Sherry Hoback looks to move Tampa Family Health Centers...
TAMPA - Taking over for an administrator who has run a company for almost 20 years can be daunting. • But Sherry Hoback prepared for some time to replace Charles Bottoms as CEO of the Tampa Family...
View ArticleKeystone, Bayshore, West Tampa combine to earn Little League state softball...
TAMPA - There is a group of area teenaged girls who came together a few weeks ago for a little adventure, which has steadily - dramatically and joyfully - turned into a much bigger ordeal.You could...
View ArticleNew Tampa Rec Center plans coming to fruition - finally
NEW TAMPA - After almost 10 years of plans and funding shortages, the expansion of the New Tampa Recreation Center in Tampa Palms is coming to fruition.The original request for the expansion was set to...
View ArticleTampa Rough Riders help restore Cuban monuments to their namesake
Theodore Roosevelt and his cavalry unit known as the Rough Riders sailed from Tampa to Cuba in June 1898 to help that nation defeat Spain.To honor the Rough Riders' heroics, Cuba erected two monuments...
View ArticleJoe Henderson: School custodians doubling as soldiers? Our Founding Fathers...
If you just dropped in from another planet and needed to learn about Florida's insidious gun problem, all you had to do was check out the front of Wednesday's local section of the Tampa Bay Times. In...
View ArticleWestfield Citrus Park underscores mall's sense of community with Wild Wonders
CITRUS PARK - Kids who recently visited Westfield Citrus Park may now know that iguanas have three eyes.They also may have stared at over-sized topiary animals, shook hands with the Tampa Bay...
View ArticleCan a 'Green Alert System' help veterans in crisis?
The first time I met Don Bolduc was in his office in Kabul, where he served as commander of the Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command, Afghanistan. He is an Army brigadier general and I...
View ArticleMarch column: Is Congressional District 16 more flippable? What about...
In the wake of good fundraising news for Democrat David Shapiro, who is running against Rep. Vern Buchanan in Congressional District 16, political analysts are upping their odds of Shapiro's winning....
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