North Tampa Pet Depot Is Tampa Palms’ Neighborhood Pet Store

DSC_0401By Anu Panchal

You may be able to buy your dog’s favorite dog food in quite a few places in New Tampa, but there’s only one place around the area where not only will the store manager ask you if there are any special products you’d like her to stock, but where the resident veterinarian (who owns and operates the store’s onsite pet hospital) will consult with you about your pet’s diet right in the store.Continue reading

Ninth Annual Tampa Fisher House Golf Classic Returns Oct. 30

For the ninth consecutive year, Arbor Greene resident and New Tampa Noon Rotary Club president Valerie Casey is putting on a charity golf tournament to benefit the Tampa Fisher House, the residence on the campus of the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. (south of E. Fletcher Ave.) which houses (for no charge) the families and significant others of the wounded veterans being treated  at the hospital.Continue reading

Grey Wolf Armory Expands To Meet Your Personal Protection Needs

*IMG_0557If you pull up to the former location of Grey Wolf Armory in Wesley Chapel, you might get the impression that the area’s only gun shop has gone out of business, but you’d be dead wrong. In fact, what’s happened is that the store has expanded into the adjacent space in the shopping plaza just north of S.R. 54 and west of Eiland Blvd. (next to Wendy’s in the shopping center in front of Home Depot). Continue reading

Wharton’s Viloria Steps Up For Varsity Ahead Of Harvest Volleyball Tourney

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Wharton High freshman Gracie Viloria (left) has stepped up to varsity to serve as the Wildcats’ setter in place of the injured Tyler Sroufe. Photo: Cotey

By John Cotey

The Wharton volleyball team opened the season with a lofty goal — to compete for a State Championship. After winning their first nine matches, the Class 7A, District 8 Wildcats looked like a team determined to meet those expectations.
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