Though it won't begin for another six weeks or so, it's official: 2010 is Trevor Abbott's year. The Gulf High School student was recently named the Pasco School District's Outstanding Senior Award winner for the Class of 2010. ...more

November 25, 2009

Pasco County brief news items on schools. ...more

October 24, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Community college continues to be the most popular next step for high school graduates in Pasco County, according to an annual report distributed to school board members last week. ...more

October 21, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - New doors will open next year for students as Certified Career Academies makes its debut in all of Pasco County's high schools. ...more

February 27, 2009

Maybe you or a loved one has a new medical concern. Maybe you are facing an unfamiliar financial situation. Maybe you find yourself out of work for the first time in a long time or you think you may be there soon and need to dust off your job-hunting skills. ...more

January 24, 2009

Motivational speaker Royce M. Decker will help launch the 2009 Business Development Week on Jan. 26. ...more

January 18, 2009

When people were successfully making the case for approving the Penny for Pasco one-cent special sales tax during the March 2004 referendum, voters were told the Pasco School District badly needed its 45 percent share of the tax's annual revenue - more than $400 million over 10 years - because it was swamped by a huge annual influx of students. ...more

January 14, 2009

Parents and students might want to check those book bags one more time before the holiday break is over for an important piece of information that was distributed at several area schools. It could save a lot of confusion at the start of the next school year. Brochures were distributed among ninth- and 10th-graders at Gulf and Mitchell high schools and to students at Gulf, Paul R. Smith and Seven Springs middle schools in anticipation of the opening of Anclote High School at the start of the 2009-10 school year. ...more

December 31, 2008

For the longest time it seemed as if the only thing passing between Pasco County government and the Pasco School District was bad blood. Yes, the two did make common cause in the successful effort to convince the county's voters to approve the Penny for Pasco sales tax, the lion's share of which the two sides split. Still, they argued for months and months over the issue of how to pay for the impact of the school construction the Penny helps finance on roads and other county infrastructure. ...more

August 27, 2008

With county officials pinching pennies in the post-Amendment No. 1 budget, the revenue from the Penny for Pasco sales tax will be a welcome sight. ...more

August 20, 2008