By Kathleen Schiop
Vision is one of only five human senses and for those of us who have it, we canโt imagine life without it. For that reason, we should keep our eyes healthy with regular exams and maintenance. Insight Family Eyecare is here to do just that.Continue reading
By Matt Wiley
Itโs easy to do a double take when walking into the New Identities Hair Studio in the Shoppes of Amberly plaza in Tampa Palms. It may even require a quick look out the storefront window to make sure that you are still in Florida, as the Tampa Palms location has taken on the appearance of a premier New York City salon following a recent facelift. However, the services that New Identities provides will continue to keep New Tampa residents feeling like runway models.Continue reading
By Camille Gillies
Since buying a house ranks high on most peopleโs list of major purchases โprobably the largest purchase most of us will make in our lifetime โ it pays to be selective when it comes to choosing a mortgage broker. After all, it wasnโt long ago that a conglomeration of disreputable mortgage brokers were caught up in the fray of the housing crisis, assisting homebuyers in obtaining loans that were beyond the homebuyersโ financial reality. As the waves of home foreclosures continue, we all know how that sad scenario is playing out.Continue reading
The 20th annual โTaste of New TampaTMโ was a huge success! I want to say special thanks to the Primrose School of Tampa Palms for hosting New Tampaโs signature event. Primrose owners Rick and Jana Radtke truly went out of their way to accommodate the New Tampa Chamber of Commerce. They not only let us use their beautiful Primrose Park, they also created a fabulous kids area, supplied volunteers, pre-sold tons of admission tickets, let us use their truck for set up and break down and so much more! The weather wasnโt perfect, but the event itself was awesome.Continue reading
By Bonnie Mason
Local residents soon will have a college to call their own. Pasco-Hernando Community College (PHCC) is nearing completion of its fifth full-service campus โ the PHCC Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, located on Mansfield Blvd. at S.R. 56, adjacent to Wiregrass Ranch High, about a mile north of the Pasco County line. Although heavy rains saturated the site and led to delays in construction, the work that began in late 2011 is now moving forward smoothly and the multi-story urban-design campus is on schedule to open for classes by Jan. 2014.Continue reading