New Tampa Rotary Donates $65K To Charities

By Matt Wiley

Although $65,000 is a lot of money, especially to just give away, raising money for local charities and giving back to the community is at the heart of Rotary International’s motto of “Service Above Self.” So, after raising money for the past year, the Rotary Club of New Tampa (which meets at 7 a.m. each Friday at Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club, located off Tampa Palms Blvd.) donated the funds raised by the club for the 2014-15 fiscal year to several local charities at its recent annual check presentation. Continue reading

Lightning Fever Strikes Tampa Bay

*lightning watch partyBy Gary Nager

Unlike most people I know here in the Tampa Bay area, I’ve been an ice hockey fan for almost 50 years. The first hockey playoff game I ever went to was the deciding Game 3 between the New York Islanders and New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden in 1975, which was the first playoff series the Islanders ever won before they won four Stanley Cups in a row in the 1980s.Continue reading

Freedom, Wharton Make List Of ‘Most Challenging High Schools’

By Matt Wiley

New Tampa’s two high schools — Freedom High in Tampa Palms and Paul R. Wharton High on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. — are no strangers to accolades, each receiving top marks (“As” and “Bs”) from the State Dept. of Education for the past several years. So, it’s really no surprise that the two schools, along with all of the high schools in the Hillsborough County School District (HCSD), again appear on The Washington Post’s list of “America’s Most Challenging High Schools.”Continue reading

Let Bay Area Real Estate & Rentals Manage Your Rental Properties!

*bay areaBy Celeste McLaughlin

Bay Area Real Estate & Rentals Estate & Rentals has stood at the corner of Fletcher and N. 56th St. (just south of New Tampa) since John Simone, the company’s Broker-owner, opened the office in 1997. In that time, John’s full-service property management and real estate office has handled the acquisition, management, and disposition of hundreds of properties for real estate investors and “accidental landlords.”Continue reading