It was checkbook time for the 10 students in the PACE Center for Girls classroom. ...more

March 4, 2009

March is Florida's Bike Month, which means it's time for the third annual Tampa BayCycle. ...more

March 4, 2009

Work on the new Giddens Park gazebo, off 12th Street in Southeast Seminole Heights, is scheduled to be completed this week. To celebrate, an ice cream social will take place this summer. Construction was paid with city money, contributions collected by Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association, $25,000 from property taxes collected within the East Tampa redevelopment area and $16,000 from Leadership Tampa Alumni, Class of 2003. ...more

March 4, 2009

A New Tampa Regional Library renovation project has received an unexpected boost from the board that recommends unfunded Hillsborough County library capital improvements. ...more

February 27, 2009

A family's grief over the loss of a relative was compounded today when a memorial candle caught their house on fire. ...more

February 26, 2009

Construction on Sangria's Spanish Tapas Bar & Restaurant got under way last week. ...more

February 25, 2009

Jessie LaDon Albach has been like a ghost haunting her family. A brother who was supposed to take her to a ballgame the night the 15-year-old vanished can't shake the knowledge that he never found her. Denise Yand, the sister she was to visit that summer, sees traces of her in the long hair and the walk of passers-by. ...more

February 23, 2009

Lisa DeCarr and Jessie LaDon Albach were like sisters. The 15-year-old friends hung around each other's neighborhoods, chatted about boys and borrowed each other's clothes. ...more

February 19, 2009

Lisa DeCarr and Jessie LaDon Albach were like sisters. ...more

February 18, 2009

At long last a promised gazebo is on its way to Giddens Park. Installation is expected to take about two weeks, city parks and recreation officials said. "Awesome," said Sherry Genovar-Simons, president of the Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association. ...more

February 18, 2009