Fake Traveler's Check Used At WC Target

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office needs the public's help identifying this suspect.
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help identifying this suspect.

Although they might seem dated, it seems that it’s still possible to write a traveler’s check for purchases, as an unknown suspect recently wrote a fake one at a local store just north of New Tampa ,and the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) needs the public’s help tracking her down.Continue reading

Oakley's Grille Has New Tampa's Best Burgers & Fries

*mushswissBy Gary Nager

When you CRAVE a great hamburger, what’s the first place you think of here in New Tampa? Fast food? One of those burger chains? Your own backyard grill?

Those are all reasonable answers, but if you’re like me — and literally hundreds of our readers — you might say “Oakley’s Grille,” which is located on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. in the North Palms Village area, next to Dairy Queen.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