The husband-and-wife team of Eddie and Lourdes Bujarski have helped hundreds of young people learn how to safely prepare and cook food from all over the world during their 18 years of running the Culinary Arts Program at New Tampa’s Wharton High. That era ended at Wharton in December of 2017, after … Continue Reading
News
Viera Hoping For Filled Seats At Warrior Games
Team Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Josh Laban blocks a shot at the net during the gold medal sitting volleyball round of the 2018 DoD Warrior Games at the Air … Continue Reading
Transportation Efforts Taking Shape
David Gwynn, FDOT District 7 secretary, says improvements are on the way. Although traffic and congestion are part of daily life for those driving around … Continue Reading
Business
Touch Is Wesley Chapel’s Largest & Most Luxurious Nail Spa!
Having recently celebrated two years on S.R. 56, Touch Nail Spa now offers even more space to accommodate even more clients. Located in the Cypress View … Continue Reading
Lots of Stuff Is Brewing On The Local Business Scene
There could soon be more tenants to announce for the Village at Hunter’s Lake development currently under construction on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd., across … Continue Reading
Recent Stories
Local Scout Turning Tennis Balls Into Tennis Courts For Eagle Project
It’s not exactly aluminum cans, glass or old newspapers. But when Saddlebrook resident Martin Levins sees an old, beaten up tennis ball lying in the grass — and as a junior tennis player at Saddlebrook Preparatory School, he sees a lot of them, at his club and other locations — he knows that unless it […]
SPRING FOOTBALL RECAP Wharton 10, Freedom 0.
It may have lacked the sizzle of a regular season match-up, but the two New Tampa rivals squared off for two quarters of football looking to answer some questions and end the spring on a high note. In the end, it was the Wildcats pulling out a 10-0 victory at Hillsborough High School. WHARTON Biggest […]
Neighborhood News Online Celebrates Six Months Of Google-Funded Videos!
When we received the first installment of our funding from the Google News Initiative on January 14, we made a number of promises to our benefactors regarding the number of videos we’d put online, the number of people we’d hire to shoot, edit and be on-air talent for those videos and the equipment we would […]
Cool Summer: A/C Work To Begin At Local Schools!
When the half-penny school sales tax referendum passed in Hillsborough County last year, the promise was that aged roofs and floors and playgrounds would be repaired, athletic tracks would be repaved and classrooms and fire evacuation systems being upgraded, just to name just a few much-needed enhancements. But, what got Wharton High’s Parent Teacher Student […]
