Chris Williams (standing) looks over maps during a School Boundary Committee meetings in 2016 at Wesley Chapel High. There will be no such committees in 2019; Williams and his staff are in the process of drawing up new boundaries and will answer questions and concerns on Oct. 7 at Wiregrass Ranch High. With Cypress Creek Middle School scheduled to open separately from the … [Read more...]
Will A New Craft Brewery Bring New Life To The Grove?
(left to right) Sam Guyer, Ryan Clarke, Cody Guyer and Shashank Mishra hope to open Wesley Chapel's first craft brewery, Double Branch Artisanal Ales, in December. Friends and Wesley Chapel residents Ryan Clarke and Shashank Mishra, M.D., had both dabbled in making their own home brews, so it was only natural that when the two would hang out, craft beer was often not only … [Read more...]
Firm Picked To Design New Tampa Performing Arts Center!
The New Tampa Performing Arts Center (in red) off Bruce B. Downs Blvd. will be part of the Village at Hunter’s Lake mixed-use development. (Photo: Charmaine George) In one of the more significant steps in the long, sometimes-tortured history of a proposed cultural arts center in New Tampa, the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) has approved the hiring of a … [Read more...]
THE BEST
Tirso "Junior" Cintron The first truck pulled up to Wharton High in 1997, and head custodian Tirso “Junior” Cintron was waiting. He pulled the first chair off the truck. The first desk. “The first everything,” says Carmen Aguero, one of the first teachers at the school. Junior set the desks and chairs up in the classrooms and offices. He made sure the … [Read more...]
Run/Walk To Kick Off 9/11 Memorial Saturday at TPO
A piece of the ladder from FDNY Ladder Truck 18, pictured above being pulled from the rubble of the north tower of the World Trade Center, will be the centerpiece of a 9/11 Memorial being developed by the Rotary Club of Wesley Chapel and the Tampa Premium Outlets. (Photo courtesy of Chris Casella) Every year when the Rotary Club of Wesley Chapel is handing out miniature … [Read more...]
