By Matt Wiley
A new restaurant is poised to fill the void in the Shoppes of Wesley Chapel shopping plaza.
According to a flier posted on the window, Only The Best (O.T.B.) Delights Café will be moving into the space vacated by Baja Fresh in the shopping center located across Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. from Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel (FHWC).Continue reading
By Matt Wiley,
A woman is dead following an early-morning head-on collision in New Tampa.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), just before 4 a.m. on September 20, Kunjummen Arun Babu, 18, of Zephyrhills, was driving north on Morris Bridge Rd. near Pictoral Park Dr., about half of a mile north of Cross Creek Blvd. in his 2010 Honda Accord. At the same time, Rita Marie Sutliff, 68, also of Zephyrhills, was driving south on Morris Bridge in her 2012 Ford Explorer. Both vehicles were traveling at about 50 m.p.h.
By Gary Nager
We obviously have to do a lot of business profiles in our publications in order to keep our advertisers happy, but some stories are a lot easier and more fun to write than others — especially for someone like me, who has written, literally, thousands of these things over the years.
But, when you “have” to do a story about the dentist who took care of both of your children’s teeth for almost two decades, this gig gets a whole lot easier.Continue reading
By Gary Nager
We’re still waiting for official announcements about the opening of the new Ciccio’s California Cusine in the old World of Beer space in the Shoppes at The Pointe plaza in Tampa Palms and the new Vallarta’s Restaurante Mexicano in the most recent Ciccio’s space in City Plaza, but we’ve been told that both are still “coming soon.” Vallarta’s may be open as early as the end of this month, and there also is talk of Ciccio’s opening on December 3.Continue reading
By Gary Nager
It was a great night for Peabody’s Palms Lounge in Tampa Palms, and an amazing feeling that still lingers today, as the Deacon Blues Band performed for nearly three hours at a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Tampa Bay fund raiser in honor of Marlana Lacivita, the Busch Gardens dance captain who refuses to let her own year-long battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma keep her from dancing — or enjoying an amazing evening with great friends, some of whom she had never met before the event on Sept. 28.