TAMPA — Shoulder to shoulder they sat, each given two minutes to bring the Hillsborough County School Board into their world. They talked of cussing parents, road rage in school parking lots, threats against staff. “I cannot control what comes through those front doors,” said Dina Wyatt, principal of Walden Lake Elementary School. Russell Wallace, […]
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Plant City’s Rick Lott and Tom Frederick won the entrepreneurial equivalent of the Super Bowl earlier this year, when they sold Zeno Office Solutions, the office equipment supply firm they founded in 1996. Document management giant Xerox bought Zeno, with $65 million in annual sales, for an undisclosed sum in April. The firm still exists […]
Continue ReadingOrganizations work to end shelter overpopulation
Editor’s note: Sydney Johnson is a senior at Plant City High School and enrolled in a journalism class through Florida Virtual School. Because of a rise in the number of homeless animals on the Tampa Bay Area streets, local shelters and non-profit organizations promote the use of an alternative solution to euthanasia, Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Release. In Hillsborough […]
Continue ReadingLETTER: Resident appreciates Glorioso’s leadership
Dear Editor: I am pleased that Rich Glorioso has asserted his leadership skills in broaching the subject of a community solution for Walden Lake’s withering golf facilities. I hope the community will keep an open mind and think constructively on how things might proceed. A committee of professional and thoughtful people would be a good […]
Continue ReadingLETTER: Thonotosassa exit too dangerous for Wawa
Dear Editor: I read with dismay your article in the Dec. 12 Plant City Times & Observer regarding the Wawa gas station being erected on the land adjoining Starbucks on Thonotosassa Road. This is a very dangerous intersection. The cars exiting from eastbound Interstate 4 clearly have a “Yield” sign facing them. Yet, rarely does one […]
Continue ReadingLETTER: WLCA needs your input for polo field
Dear Editor: We are asking for your ideas for the use/reuse/adaptive use/active/passive ideas for the use of the ground known as the polo field area. That’s the entire, large area adjacent to where the dog park is located (which is not being changed). The WLCA Board of Directors started talking earlier this year about paving […]
Continue ReadingLIFE LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: Fill an empty heart this Christmas season
One-two-three, one-two-three, step, heel, together, step, heel, together. Last month, my wife and I had the wonderful opportunity to dance in the Plant City Noon Rotary Club fundraiser, “Dancing with the Locals.” We worked on a waltz, because we enjoyed the flow of the music and also the fact that I cannot do the gyrations […]
Continue ReadingLETTER: Why should we trust Visions Golf?
Dear Editor: I am pleased our city leaders attended the Walden Lake Community Association’s Nov. 19 Golf Course Workshop. I am grateful that the vision for the community will rest with them — and not Visions Golf LLC. Visions Golf LLC asked for bank loans in 2004 to buy the Walden Lake Golf & Country […]
Continue ReadingLETTERS: Residents share polo field suggestions
Dear Editor: I was just running by there this morning, thinking that we should do something with that field. As much as I like the idea of a soccer field, that would require upkeep, which may make it unpopular, unless we can team up with a youth soccer league. Disc golf is probably the cheapest […]
Continue ReadingFAITH MATTERS: The high cost of Christmas
A recent article I read stated the average dollar amount Americans will spend per person this year for Christmas is $786. The good news for merchants is that amount is up slightly from 2012. But, on the other hand, it is way down from 2007’s high of $866. Already, we are hearing mixed reports depending […]
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