By 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
By 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
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
By Anu Varna Panchal
Hot air ballooning or flea marketing? The art of Salvador Dali or the music of Verdi? Tai chi or Wii golf; wine etiquette or geopolitics; Bible study, yoga, movies or a night of watching a blues band perform? With a plethora of activities, excursions and on-site amenities, the biggest problem facing the residents of St. Joseph’s John Knox Village on E. Fletcher Ave. in Tampa (less than five minutes from Tampa Palms) may be choosing from among the continuing care retirement community’s many entertainment options.Continue reading
By Matt Wiley
The Wesley Chapel area is a hotbed for growth these days, and few know it better than the Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce (WCCC)’s executive director Hope Allen, who recently was selected to be a participant in a regional program to help business leaders learn about economic growth around Tampa Bay, including here in the New Tampa area. Continue reading