By Matt Wiley
Congratulations to the Class of 2013 from Freedom and Paul R. Wharton High Schools, as you shift your tassels and move into the world after high school.
During graduation ceremonies on June 3 and 4 inside the Expo Center at the Florida State Fairgrounds (located off U.S. Hwy. 301), more than 1,000 New Tampa-area seniors crossed the stage to collect their respective diplomas.
By Matt Wiley
Keeping combustibles too close to the cooking surface really can cause fires, as one New Tampa man has learned.
According to a report from Tampa Fire Rescue (TFR), at about 1 a.m. on June 5, TFR units responded to a single apartment fire at 10703 Great Falls Ln. inside the Heritage Pines Apartments complex on Cross Creek Blvd. Upon the emergency unitsâ arrival, the entire building already was being evacuated.
By Matt Wiley
Water pressure could improve in the New Tampa area several months from now, as improvements are being planned for the North Tampa Potable Water System at the Morris Bridge Pumping Station (MBPS) off Bruce B. Downs (BBD)âBlvd. and Doña Michelle Dr, near I-75.
Also located next to the New Tampa Nature Park, MBPS may soon be getting some improvements, keeping water pressure steady in the area as the population grows, since two resolutions were passed at the June 6 Tampa City Council meeting, approving the design and construction of one project and the design and permitting phases of a second project.
One of the things Iâhear all too often these days â especially from people who have never advertised in the New Tampa or Wesley Chapel Neighborhood News â is that advertising in local print media âjust doesnât work anymore because of the internet.â
To all of those folks, all Iâcan say is, âYeah, right.â
First of all, Iâm not naive. Iâknow that more of our advertisers get far greater results from having business feature articles written about their businesses than they do from any ad in any print or online medium. Sadly, because of the number of advertisers we have (150-200 in every issue) and with a space limit of only four or five business profiles that can run in any issue, those features can only run in the print version of this publication once a year â although those article and issue archives also are always available at NTNeighborhoodNews.com.
By Matt Wiley
Cory Lake Isles just got a whole lot âbeachierâ since renovations have been completed at the communityâs central Beach Club.
The interior of the community gathering spot had retained the same interior since its initial construction back in the 1980s, something that the Cory Lake Isles Community Development District (CDD) decided to change when it accepted a bid six months ago from Blue Waters DĂ©cor, an interior decorating company owned by Mylitta Butler.