Stung by reports that the prospective developer of a Pasco County sports complex has been courting other Florida counties, Pasco commissioners on Tuesday considered creating a second complex in east Pasco in hopes of keeping Sportsplex USA on their team. ...more

December 16, 2009

More than 52 percent of East Pasco schoolchildren are on the county's free or reduced lunch program, according to a Rotary Club news release. So what happens to these students when they're out of school for the holidays? ...more

December 12, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - A group of Rodney B. Cox Elementary School students received some early Christmas gifts this week, got to pet a python and a French bulldog and learned what it takes to work with animals. All for a song. ...more

December 10, 2009

April Harrelson knew she was getting the keys to her new home Tuesday, but she had no idea everything she needed to furnish it would be included - right down to the toothbrushes. ...more

December 9, 2009

Pasco County commissioners are discussing plans to build a sports complex in Trinity -- or somewhere else. ...more

December 1, 2009

Area potters are fired-up about participating in the Florida Westcoast Ceramics Society's second Tour De Clay. The event allows potters and those interested in its creative process to see clay artists creating in their studios. The first tour, last year, was a huge success, said Barbara Burhans, spokeswoman for the group. ...more

November 28, 2009

It's time to turn our attention to the upcoming holiday season. This year, as we watch our economy struggling to recover, Toys for Tots of East Pasco needs to set our sights higher than ever before. Here in Pasco County, the number of children living below the poverty level continues to grow. Providing a joyous Christmas for these "at risk" tots continues to challenge our program and our caring community. ...more

November 27, 2009

Commuters passing through the junction of Interstates 75 and 275 may have noticed something missing recently. The state Department of Transportation has been busy clearing acres of trees and other vegetation as it prepares to build two new off-ramps for traffic destined for State Road 56. ...more

November 16, 2009

Commuters passing through the junction of Interstates 75 and 275 may have noticed something missing recently. ...more

November 15, 2009

When the sprawling residential-commercial development project that was to be known as Serenova was still on the drawing board, one of the people involved in the project suggested that the center of economic activity in the county was even then shifting from West Pasco to Central and East Pasco. The U.S. 19 corridor would become economically "blighted" and have to be redeveloped, this person suggested. Serenova never got built and the 6,500 acres it would have occupied ended up in the hands of the Southwest Florida Water Management District. The U.S. 19 prediction, alas, is still looking viable. ...more

November 14, 2009