A local work force agency is changing its meal purchasing practices after a new directive from the state. ...more

December 18, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - A school under construction in the Trinity and Odessa area has been given a name to match its location - Odessa Elementary. ...more

December 17, 2009

The 12,800-acre Cone Ranch will someday be part of Hillsborough County's conservation lands program, county commissioners decided Wednesday. ...more

December 17, 2009

Pat Bean will continue as Hillsborough County administrator, but she will finish out the last two years of her contract on what County Commissioner Kevin White termed a "short rope." ...more

December 17, 2009

County administrator Pat Bean survived her annual evaluation today with her job intact but at the end of what one commissioner called a "short rope" that could be jerked if she doesn't improve her performance. Commissioner Mark Sharpe received no support for a motion he made to fire Bean and fill her position by a coalition of her assistant county administrators until the job could be filled permanently. ...more

December 16, 2009

Legal counsel advised the board not to interfere with the union's fundraising. ...more

December 9, 2009

A long ribbon of new sidewalks will soon stretch along Clark Street near U.S. 19, yet another community project courtesy of proceeds from the annual Hudson Seafest. ...more

December 6, 2009

A long ribbon of new sidewalks will soon stretch down the side of Clark Street near U.S. 19, yet another community project courtesy of proceeds from the annual Hudson Seafest. But the direction of the community seafood festival appears much less certain. ...more

November 28, 2009

A long ribbon of new sidewalks will soon stretch down the side of Clark Street near U.S. 19, yet another community project courtesy of proceeds from the annual Hudson Seafest. ...more

November 27, 2009

We like the way the Highlands County Recreation and Parks Advisory Committee, better known as R-PAC, responded to Sebring's Dixie Youth Baseball request. Board members moved quickly to support a proposal for major improvements to the baseball complex, and obviously understood the importance of this request. ...more

November 22, 2009