By Matt Wiley
Congratulations to the Class of 2014 from Freedom High (FHS) in Tampa Palms and Paul R. Wharton High (WHS)!Continue reading
New Tampa's Class Of 2014 Walks The Stage
Illustration Demonstration Inspires Young New Tampa Illustrators
By Matt Wiley
It starts as just a small, strange outlined shape. With a few more strokes of colored pencil to paper, though, that initial shape takes form and eventually evolves into the face of a dog, who is the star of Tails of Fluffy McDuffy, a children’s book written and illustrated by Tampa residents.Continue reading
Wharton Hosts Successful First Food Truck Rally
By Matt Wiley
Smoke rises along Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. in New Tampa from the Paul R. Wharton High parking lot. The haze floats above the area, carrying with it scents not usually associated with a fire. In fact, they smell downright delicious. The source? Wharton’s first food truck rally, “Food Trucks Fighting Hunger,” which was held on April 13.Continue reading
Turner Elementary & Bartels Middle School To Become K-8 Center
By Matt Wiley & Gary Nager
New Tampa soon will be the home of the first non-magnet K-8 school in the Hillsborough County School District (HCSD), as Hilda T. Turner Elementary and Nancy Bartels Middle School are set to become one schools, just in time for the beginning of the 2014-15 school year in August.Continue reading
Tampa Palms Scout Collects 2,000 Books For TPE During Eagle Scout Project
By Matt Wiley
Jacob Shuster likes to read. He read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged cover-to-cover when he was 14. Reading is something that has stuck with him since the time he spent at Tampa Palms Elementary (TPE), the first school to open in the New Tampa area (located on Tampa Palms Blvd.), where he also learned to read.Continue reading