The Community Redevelopment Agency voted Monday to take a couple of weeks and digest proposed land use changes for the downtown CRA district, a first step in submitting a major Comprehensive Plan Amendment to the Sebring City Council. ...more

November 29, 2008

The Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club has received the AAA Four Diamond Award, the highest designation among any of the hotels in the Tampa Bay area and one that is awarded to 3 percent of the 60,000 AAA approved and diamond-rated properties. The Vinoy, on downtown St. Petersburg's waterfront, recently completed $3.5 million renovation, including a makeover of its two Presidential Suites, and the Plaza Ballroom and meeting rooms. The Vinoy's Lobby Promenade Lounge was reconfigured with a new bar and expanded seating. ...more

October 20, 2008

With the number of "schools of choice" doubling this year from two to four, more than twice as many elementary students have transferred to another school through the School Choice option. ...more

October 6, 2008

North Korea kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors from a plant that previously produced weapons-grade plutonium and notified the nuclear watchdog that it would restart operations as early as next week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday. ...more

September 25, 2008

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has asked Gov. Charlie Crist to seek federal disaster declarations from the federal government for 36 Florida counties battered by high winds, excessive rainfall, flooding or tornados from Tropical Storm Fay. Highlands County is included on the list. ...more

September 5, 2008

The city will hold a public meeting from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Bruton Memorial Library, 302 McLendon St., on the Hillsborough County floodplain map that is being developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...more

August 21, 2008

School officials learned of concerns that Venice Elementary School teacher Diana O'Neill was too rough with her special education teachers as early as 2005, three years before she was arrested on child abuse charges. ...more

August 11, 2008

A monument to Dunedin war casualties in the city's newest park was dedicated Thursday morning. City officials, local business leaders, U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Pinellas Park, and veterans gathered in Purple Heart Park, at the corner of Main Street and Alt. 19, to dedicate the municipal Purple Heart monument. ...more

August 7, 2008

Here are some commonly asked questions about Florida's voluntary pre-kindergarten program: ...more

August 1, 2008

DUNEDIN -- Purple Heart Park it is. Thursday night the City Commission reviewed several possible names for the pocket park along Alt 19 at the entrance to Main Street. ...more

July 25, 2008