North of Tampa: December 2, 2001
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Exercising to the core
[Times photo: Mike Pease]
Bob Sierra Family YMCA fitness trainer Nicole Spellman pulls on elastic cords Friday while keeping her balance on a board designed to work out core muscles. |
Bank wants to build new office building
CITRUS PARK: First Citrus Bank is seeking permission to develop an office building next to its existing bank on 1.33 acres at the corner of Sheldon and Hixon roads. The proposed 4,000-square-foot freestanding building would provide additional office space for bank employees. Thirteen parking spaces will be added.
A plan calls for curbing sprawl
But getting developers to build communities with a small-town feel, as the county's Northwest plan recommends, is a tall order.
Developer tries to wheedle way onto winding Lutz lane
Editors:
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.
Fear, pride collide in a Muslim life
Don't feel sorry for Najia Kurdi as she walks the halls of Pine View Middle School in her hijab. This is her choice.
Prep Notes: Six three-pointers are just a warmup for one Chief
A last-second layup helps Chamberlain beat Riverview in its season opener. A Wharton Wildcat is the first to surpass a career plateau and the first-year Alonso Ravens experience their first victory.
Family struggles to cope after crash
ODESSA -- Before the wreck that nearly killed both their daughters a month ago, musicians Jeff and Terry Pinkham had the same concerns as most parents: keeping up with the bills, saving and finding time for a vacation.
Open & Shut
Lutz
Site near USF considered for coroner's new offices
UNIVERSITY NORTH -- A new office for the Hillsborough County coroner is long overdue. But county officials believe they have the perfect location for a new facility: land near the University of South Florida.
Notebook
Meetings set on school boundaries, library site
Old ties leave Oldsmar in knots
City officials have been trying since September to get CSX Transportation to remove the stacks of old wooden ties.
Board member's resignation upstaged
The Westchase Community Association loses a member, but debate about derogatory e-mail dominates the meeting.
Neighbors tired of noise from backyard bird breeder
Two dozen homeowners sign a petition asking that the exotic birds be removed.
Hot diggity digs
Fifteen men are settling into the city's first new firehouse in more than a decade. The only things missing are a Dalmatian and a fire pole.
