After considering a price increase, the school district's food service director told the school board recently that lunch prices will not be going up at this time. ...more

August 2, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board approved attendance boundaries for Watergrass Elementary School and Anclote High School Tuesday night. ...more

February 19, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The price of breakfast and lunch in school cafeterias could be going up. ...more

February 15, 2009

Serving smaller hot dogs, plastic juice pouches and fewer of the kids' favorite chicken sandwiches can go a long way in shrinking the food budget. ...more

January 6, 2009

hillsborough county schools cuts $1.3 million from the school meal budget ...more

January 5, 2009

Evidence of the flagging economy's local effect can be found as close as your neighborhood school's lunch line. ...more

September 24, 2008

For the first time, more than half of all students in Hillsborough County public schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. ...more

September 23, 2008

The new school year will bring higher lunch prices as the School Board of Highlands County's Food and Nutrition Department contends with rising costs. ...more

July 14, 2008

SEBRING — High gas and diesel prices have not only strained family budgets, but are challenging the school district's Food Service Department, which is trying to the hold the line on food costs and lunch prices. Food costs for the district have increased about 8 to 12 percent, said Martha Brown, food service coordinator. The district will have to seriously consider raising lunch prices, she said. Last year, the school board tentatively said lunch prices could be raised 25 cents in the fall, but the board would have to review the food service budget to make that decision, Brown added. ...more

May 4, 2008

When newly hired art consultant Leith ter Meulen visited recently from New York City, community leaders took her to lunch at the neighborhood's only mom-and-pop restaurant, Zelda's Cafe & Deli. ...more

September 29, 2007