Lakeshore Villas resident Wes Bigelow, 56, is a self-described adventurous spirit. ...more

January 26, 2008

Don't blame Tony Dungy for getting his son, Eric, into Plant High School. The Dungys exercised the same option entitled all parents by asking for a special assignment to a school outside their neighborhood's boundaries. ...more

January 24, 2008

It's hard to imagine that a team returning all five starters could fly under the radar. But that's exactly what Freedom has done this season. ...more

January 17, 2008

Suggests several potential remedies. ...more

January 16, 2008

Each year the parents of thousands of students ask Hillsborough County school officials for special assignments to allow their children to enroll in crowded schools outside their attendance boundaries. ...more

January 16, 2008

The county property appraiser's office recorded 1,928 foreclosures in 2007, more than a 250 percent increase from 2006. ...more

January 15, 2008

Suggests several potential remedies. ...more

January 15, 2008

It is the tradition of this column every year at this time to relate the story of Thanksgiving. For source material, I rely on the accounts of William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth Bay Colony for 30 years between 1621 and 1656. Bradford's history "Of Plimoth Plantation" first was published in 1856. ...more

November 22, 2007

PALMETTO –– The laughs and jeers on the way to the football field by some spectators didn't go unnoticed by the Avon Park Red Devil football players, who have found new strength in this watershed season. Thier season may have ended with a 41-0 rout at the hands of the playoff-bound Palmetto Tigers at Harllee Stadium on Friday, but the mood was upbeat and an sense of excitement for what lies ahead for the underclassman that endure all the hardships this year was felt. ...more

November 11, 2007

Not long after Jan Donahue's husband left for a two-year tour of duty in Iraq, one of her neighbors tied a yellow ribbon around a tree in the Donahue's yard. ...more

November 10, 2007