HERITAGE ISLES - The beleaguered golf course community has asked its management team from Saddlebrook Resort to give up control of Heritage Isles' money-losing restaurant. A year after Dempsey Resort Management Inc. reworked the menu and improved the food, the restaurant is losing more money than ever. DRMI closed the restaurant this month and is serving food and drinks from an outdoor tiki bar next to the community's pool through the summer. ...more

June 6, 2008

A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

HERITAGE ISLES - Less than a year into its management contract, Dempsey Resort Management is in a similar position to its predecessors: trying to explain mounting losses in this New Tampa golf course community. Dempsey, which runs Pasco's Saddlebrook Resort, brought in its executive team to turn around Heritage Isles. The group came onboard in summer 2007 after community leaders fired the two previous management companies. ...more

February 21, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

The community's entryway makeover continues on pace with community development district supervisors' vote last week to solicit bids for the estimated $1.11 million project. ...more

February 20, 2008

Community supervisors have agreed to seek building permits for new decorative entry signs, an initial phase of Tampa Palms Visioning 2011. ...more

January 14, 2008

TAMPA PALMS - Community supervisors have agreed to seek building permits for new decorative entry signs, an initial phase of Tampa Palms Visioning 2011. Refurbishing four dozen monument signs at the entry to Tampa Palms Areas 1 and 2 and most of the 17 individual villages is expected to cost $1.19 million, Tampa Palms Community Development District supervisors learned at their meeting Jan. 9. ...more

January 11, 2008

A monument sign design incorporating molded brick and modern lighting is favored by Tampa Palms Community Development District supervisors, who are working toward launching the construction project in early March. ...more

December 19, 2007

TAMPA PALMS - A monument sign design incorporating molded brick and modern lighting is favored by Tampa Palms Community Development District supervisors, who are working toward launching the construction project in early March. The design the five supervisors endorsed at their Dec. 12 meeting calls for molded brick at the base and top of the community's main Bruce B. Downs Boulevard entrance signs, at Amberly Drive and Tampa Palms Boulevard. ...more

December 14, 2007

Like proud new homeowners choosing carpet colors, Tampa Palms Community Development District supervisors spent nearly two hours perusing proposed designs for new village entry signs. ...more

November 22, 2007