Traffic bound for Memorial Elementary School and Sebring High School should not encounter road detours as students go back to school today. ...more

January 6, 2009

Traffic bound to Memorial Elementary School and Sebring High School should not encounter any road detours as students go back to school Tuesday. ...more

January 5, 2009

A portion of Suncoast Gateway Mobile Village, just east of the U.S. 19-Ride Road intersection in Port Richey, is again under water after persistent heavy rain. Over the years Pasco County has created a system of ditches and culverts in an area bounded by Ridge Road to the north and U.S. 19 to the west in an attempt to reduce the flooding risk in the area. This effort, alas, has not proven entirely successful. ...more

August 6, 2008

The idea that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few ran into a roadblock Friday: individual property rights. ...more

August 2, 2008

The milky brown stream flows west, through a maze of underground culverts, stormwater drains and open canals lined with trash and dead fish, to the small piece of property where Harlan and Virginia Farmer settled nearly a half century ago. ...more

July 26, 2008

The rain started falling heavily a week ago tonight, and by morning the water had surrounded Deborah Parker's doublewide on Afton Lane. ...more

July 19, 2008

The rain started falling heavily Saturday night, and by morning the water had surrounded Deborah Parker's double-wide on Afton Lane. ...more

July 18, 2008

Parents in the Woodmont community off Gunn Highway successfully protested a planned bus stop and got the school district to change it. ...more

June 14, 2008

Parents in the Woodmont community off Gunn Highway successfully protested a planned bus stop and got the school district to change it. The Hillsborough County school district is eliminating stops and adjusting bus routes to make its transportation system more efficient. But some of the proposals have worried parents for their children's safety. In Woodmont, families were concerned about students having to wait at the corner of Gunn Highway and Cain Road. The walk from the Woodmont houses down Cain is narrow with drainage ditches on both sides and no sidewalks. The traffic and speed on Gunn also bothered them. John Franklin, general director of transportation, met with about a dozen parents in the neighborhood last week on the final day of school to see the route himself. Afterward, he recommended moving the stop off Gunn farther in on Cain Road. Franklin told parents in an e-mail that a safety review showed Cain Road did not have a four-foot walking path as required due to the culverts. The community instead will have two stops that do not require walking down Cain. One stop will be at Cain Road and Piney Lane Drive. A second will be at Piney Lane and Pine Bay Drive. It is a reduction from the four elementary school stops that the neighborhood had last year. Barbara Boler, the parent who brought the Gunn Highway issue to Franklin's attention, said she and others were grateful for the attention and consideration the transportation office gave their concerns. ...more

June 10, 2008

Hillsborough County officials have extended a deadline for the Ruskin Community Development Foundation to find sponsors to take over maintenance of up to nine medians in a 1.7-mile stretch of U.S. 41. ...more

February 11, 2008