NEW TAMPA - Some New Tampa community development district incumbents will coast into another term, while others have stiff opposition. ...more

June 20, 2008

A sixth candidate filed Thursday to run for the Spring Hill Fire Rescue Board of Commissioners. ...more

June 17, 2008

Jim Monk isn't interested in knocking on doors or handing out flyers on street corners. ...more

May 29, 2008

Pasco GOP Chairman Bill Bunting will ask candidates in the upcoming Republican primary to sign a written pledge to support the winners, whoever they may be. ...more

May 23, 2008

This municipal election season, incumbents Deborah Kynes and Julie Ward Bujalski and political newcomer Tony Scruton are vying for two open seats on the Dunedin City Commission. At 11:30 a.m. this Monday, Feb. 25, the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce members will meet the candidates at the group's quarterly luncheon, at the Dunedin Country Club. ...more

February 23, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Two seats on town council are up for grabs and three candidates registered in time to beat the Friday noon filing deadline for the April 8 election. ...more

February 22, 2008

SEBRING — At least three candidates are challenging incumbents for Sebring City Council. Dan Andrews, president of the Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce, and Ken Melvin, consultant for recycling and demolition, and Robert Horne, a contractor, have turned in their paperwork for the March 11 election. Incumbents Jeff Carlson, Margie Rhoades and Bud Whitlock are also running for their positions. ...more

January 18, 2008

For some 30 years the Hudson Water Works has operated in relative obscurity. That could change Friday afternoon when the small, nonprofit utility cooperative, which supplies drinking water to about 6,700 people in the Hudson area, holds its annual meeting and election of directors. ...more

January 16, 2008

SEBRING — Is Carl Cool thinking of challenging Barbara Stewart for county commissioner in District 1? He won't confirm the news tip, but asked three times on Thursday, he didn't deny it. "There are lots of rumors going around regarding people running for offices at this time of year, and all of them are unconfirmed at this time." But what about Cool? "I've not only heard that I was running, I've heard rumors about other people who might be running, and they are all unconfirmed as far as I know," Cool said. ...more

January 11, 2008

SEBRING — Luke Brooker isn't, but Bob Germaine is. The sheriff is, and so are all the other constitutional officers. Germaine called a press conference at 1 p.m. Wednesday to announce he'll seek the clerk of courts seat being vacated by Brooker. Germaine, 57, said if he's elected, he won't be a one-term clerk. He's been working in the office for 36 years and is Brooker's chief deputy on the criminal courts side. "I help people every day," Germaine said to the 20 people gathered in the supervisor of elections office when he announced. "I don't feel like I've done anything if I don't help someone." ...more

January 3, 2008