Regarding your recent article, "Nobody's Problem," like Mr. Turberville's, our neighborhood -- just a few blocks away -- is at the start of the same kind of vacant home mess. Great neighbors were more or less forced out of their meticulously-tended home due to the financial debacle of a number of banks. Sadly, this small showplace now looks exactly like nobody cares because it has joined the ranks of "Nobody's Problem." This is a very false, though catchy name. This is everybody's problem. When the undesirables pass by these homes, it is an open invitation to vandalism at the least. ...more

October 28, 2009

Lake Placid, Sebring and Avon Park have set trick or treat hours for Saturday, Halloween Day. ...more

October 28, 2009

Lakeshore Mall should reconsider its decision to close its doors to unsupervised, under-aged teens. While the mall authorities are well within their means to kick out unruly and disruptive patrons, the discriminatory manner unfairly penalizes teenagers who have committed no infraction. ...more

September 14, 2009

Hillsborough County fire inspectors are looking into a fire late Saturday night that destroyed a vacant house in Gibsonton. ...more

June 21, 2009

The community entryway makeover project has finally reached the two large monuments guarding the entrances to Tampa Palms and Bruce B. Downs boulevards. ...more

March 11, 2009

Officials say the mobile home where a repeat sex offender raped and murdered a 9-year-old Florida girl in 2005 has burned down. ...more

February 16, 2009

City officials are appealing for municipal park visitors to report any suspicious incidents after a recent wave of vandalism to park bathrooms. ...more

February 14, 2009

A wave of vandalism has struck at least four New Port Richey city park bathrooms where fixtures have been smashed with a hammer or fires have been set. ...more

February 11, 2009

Four Lake Placid middle school students are facing expulsion due to what the school calls gang-related activity in the past two months, but Principal Derrel Bryan said there has been no gang-related violence on the school's campus. ...more

February 5, 2009

The city of Tarpon Springs' recent attempt to solicit proposals from firms interested in installing a security lighting system at Cycadia Cemetery met with disappointing results. Interim City Manager Mark LeCouris said the city received a letter of interest from only one firm. It suggested a lighting system costing approximately $162,000. It would have ringed the cemetery's perimeter and would not have been controlled by sensors. ...more

January 24, 2009