Labor Day To Cause Garbage Collection Interruption

By Matt Wiley

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn picks up the trash at a customer's home. Photo: City of Tampa
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn picks up the trash at a customer’s home. Photo: City of Tampa

Labor Day will cause an interruption in solid waste and recycling collection schedules for Hillsborough County and City of Tampa customers.

According to the City of Tampa, there will be no garbage, yard-waste recycling, or blue-box/green cart recycling collection on Monday, September 2, 2013. The City will resume the regular collection schedule on the next scheduled service day, Thursday, September 5, 2013, and blue box/green cart recycling and yard waste collection will resume on Monday, September 9, 2013.

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Tampa Palms Pill Pusher Crashes Car Full Of Drugs

Jeremy Grove
Jeremy Grove

By Matt Wiley | August 28

A Tampa Palms man has been arrested with a car full of narcotics following a single-vehicle crash on S.R. 54, just east of Wesley Chapel, in Land O’ Lakes.

According to a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) report, just before 10 a.m. on August 28, Jeremy Earle Grove, 23, of 16228 Saint Michelle Ct. (in the Promenade at Tampa Palms apartment complex), was discovered with several packages containing prescription drugs and controlled substances after flipping his Toyota Scion on S.R. 54, east of Hailey Ln., in Land O’ Lakes.

Witnesses described Grove’s driving leading up to the crash as erratic, stating that he was driving at a high rate of speed, cutting off other vehicles, following too closely and was unable to stay in his lane, before veering off the road and flipping his vehicle.

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