With gas costs higher than ever, city and county officials are looking for ways to save money on fuel. ...more

July 16, 2008

Masque Community Theatre is a perfect example of how a venue of its type should serve its neighbors, Cyn LoPinto says. ...more

July 9, 2008

Less than 50 cents a month. That's how much extra city residents and business owners would have been paying under a proposal to increase the annual street-lighting fee by 22 percent this year. ...more

June 19, 2008

It was a small increase, but an increase just the same. Faced with rising energy costs to keep New Port Richey illuminated at night, city staff had recommended the city council raise the street-lighting fee by 22 percent. ...more

June 5, 2008

The town is tagged as "A City for Living" and James Chambers has helped make it that way, Cheri Donohue says. ...more

June 4, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - The town is tagged as "A City for Living" and James Chambers has helped make it that way, Cheri Donohue says. That's why Donohue, director of the Greater Temple Terrace Chamber of Commerce, and Helen Harper, her assistant, nominated Chambers for the fourth annual Fran Barford Public Service Award, which is sponsored by the Temple Terrace Woman's Club. Barford was a member of the club for more than 30 years and also served eight years as a Temple Terrace councilwoman and six years as the city's first female mayor. ...more

May 30, 2008

AVON PARK — The City Council heard some noise from a resident complaining about people blasting their stereos all over the city, and agreed that the existing noise ordinance wasn't enough to mute them. The council asked City Attorney Gerald Buhr and Police Chief Matthew Doughney to figure a way to increase the penalties for playing loud music, after Charles Devlin said that he could hear them across Lake Tulane most weekends. "Every single night without exceptions you hear loud music," Devlin told the council. ...more

May 28, 2008

AVON PARK - The city council heard some noise from a resident complaining about people blasting their stereos all over the city, and agreed that the existing noise ordinance wasn't enough to mute them. The council asked City Attorney Gerald Buhr and Police Chief Matthew Doughney to figure a way to increase the penalties for playing loud music, after Charles Devlin said that he could hear them across Lake Tulane most weekends. ...more

May 27, 2008

It was supposed to be a discussion about the most important aspect of the city council's job: the budget. ...more

May 23, 2008

When city officials broke ground on the municipal airport expansion project at a ceremony in January, they had big dollar signs in their eyes. ...more

May 21, 2008