Wimauma News

Heavy rains this week have pushed local rivers to the flood stage, according to the National Weather Service.

Rain chances remain high today, a day after record-setting rainfall brought flooding that snarled traffic and forced some homes to be evacuated in the Bay area.

Just in time for the Fourth of July holiday get ready to shell out more cash if you're planning an outing at one of Florida's state parks.

Canoes and kayaks from the Little Manatee Canoe Outpost line the shore of a beach at the Little Manatee State Recreation Area near the Manatee County line on U.S. 301 near Wimauma.

More than 200 residents packed County Center June 9 at a public hearing on next year's proposed budget.

Hillsborough County Public Schools is sponsoring free summer Voluntary Prekindergarten for 4- and 5-year-olds. The free clases run Monday through THURSDAY from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. between June 10 and July 30, at 24 public elementary schools.

Hillsborough County deputies are searching for a missing 79-year-old woman. Carolyn Taylor was last seen around 6:30 p.m. Saturday at her home in the 15000 block of Colding Loop in Wimauma, according to the sheriff's office.

Mercedes Carrea threads a sewing machine during a sewing class at the Good Samaritan Mission in Wimauma.

Elizabeth "Pooka" Bradley Sweat celebrated her 90th birthday in her favorite manner - " with laughing, chattering, reminiscing A people, most of them years younger, coming together from near and far, by the tens of dozens.

This year's salutatorian at Earl J. Lennard High School had to work harder than any honoree that came before.

The Tampa Bay area's rain pattern of the past few days will remain in place, at least through Friday, meaning it will be sunny in the morning, hot in the afternoon until it starts raining and then rain through the night before starting over the next day.

Allen Witt was appointed president of the SouthShore Center campus at Hillsborough Community College .

Perry photographs conditions in a yard that had three dogs. The dogs were infested with fleas, and one had mange.

By Penny Fletcher penny@observernews.net RUSKIN - Pastor Bill Cruz and his wife Dora are about to start their third ministry in South County after almost 30 years of service in the area.

Knights Griffin Road between Deshong Drive and Cork Road in Plant City, westbound lane closed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through May 9 for resurfacing.

A federal jury has convicted a Wimauma man of selling crack cocaine at Bethune Park.

Nearly 200 elementary school-age students poured out of their classrooms Tuesday morning.

Balm Wimauma Road at State Road 672 in Balm, northbound lane closed intermittently from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. through today for intersection reconfiguration.

The director of the Center for Migrant Education at the University of South Florida could probably write a book about how children of migrant farmworkers conquer long odds to become teachers.

A brush fire has burned through 300 areas but caused only minor damage to one house, fire officials said tonight.