North of Tampa: February 3, 2002
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Rail work stops roads
[Times photo: Fraser Hale]
There are more dead ends in store as CSX replaces rails and ties at a number of intersections in Lutz. |
Enemy of estrogen therapy to visit
A doctor breaks with conventional medical wisdom by saying synthetic estrogen is the most likely cause of breast cancer.
Proposal calls for homes and townhomes
A plan for apartments east of Livingston Avenue failed. Neighbors like the new plan better but would like houses only.
While wearing chaffeur's hat, why not teacher's?
Whether your children learn at home or in a school, chances are you spend more time in the car than you thought either choice would entail.
Schools roundup
ADAMS MIDDLE: Birthday notices can be placed on the marquee for $10. Order forms are available at the office. Birthdays are posted first come, first served. For information, call 975-7665.
Officials shift school boundaries
A school opening and the addition of a magnet program at another are planned to balance out school populations.
Open & Shut
NEW TAMPA
$5-million recreation complex nears home base
The School Board will be asked to approve the rest of the money for a 40-acre complex next to two new schools.
Teaching in tune
In class, Anita Hocker is as much performer as she is instructor. But the Teacher of the Year finalist often frets that arts programs are considered luxuries.
Wrangling over Wal-Mart
Neighbors want promises that their lives will not be disrupted, while developers want credit for cleaning the polluted site.
Wait for road extension continues
Patience, commuters. The Cross Creek Boulevard connector should be finished in six to eight weeks.
Anticrime 'CEO' is all business
A fairly new business crime watch has a new leader to keep it in line and motivated.
Comic relief for a road-weary crowd
NEW TAMPA -- District 2 at-large City Council member Rose Ferlita offered New Tampa residents a humorous idea to solve the transportation nightmare: A levitating hover scooter. As a joke Ferlita handed out an advertisement for $15,000 scooter that looks like a giant air hockey puck with handlebars. The vehicle can hit 15 mph on the open road -- or sidewalk.
'He's made a huge difference' in Keystone
That's what (even) a county commissioner says of a civic leader who has served six years -- enough, he says.
With Dupree's lead, Wharton on a roll
TAMPA -- With the regular season winding down and the district tournaments tipping off Tuesday, Wharton girls basketball continues its roll toward the post season. And Candice Dupree is the main reason why.
34 Sickles students qualify for conference
CITRUS PARK -- Four years ago, Sickles High School's fledgling DECA club sent just two members to the state competition. This year, 34 of them qualified for the state leadership conference to be held Feb. 28 in Orlando.
