Corporate community
GreatStone Mortgage executives seem to be making The Hamlet their own private neighborhood.

Never too late
Seniors who are curious about computers or who want to increase their skills have an enthusiastic mentor in a group called SeniorNet.

First goodbye
Through misty eyes, parents bid their little darlings a tearful adieu as the kindergarteners take their first tentative steps toward independence.

Proposed parkway extension may help reduce traffic
The new owner of West Meadows plans to extend Highwoods Preserve Parkway to New Tampa Boulevard.

All lids are not created equal
Manhole covers with a ship motif will be placed in new subdivisions.

Stein Mart has a foot in door at City Plaza
The store would be the final addition to the center, anchored by Publix, if the City Council agrees to change growth guidelines for the owner.

'Overzealous' tree cutters stopped
Alert residents manage to get work halted as trees were being felled one by one on the median of Northdale Boulevard.

Small goodbye party grows, then goes awry
What began as a celebration among friends headed to college became a soiree filled with strangers and ended with a speaker box missing.

Man meets his birth mother after 2-year search
Bill Brenaman learns from her that he is part Cherokee Indian and part Irish.

West Meadows' sole spokesman quits community panel over road
The council approved projects without his input, he says, including a four-lane highway through his neighborhood.

Tritons win U.S. roller hockey title
CARROLLWOOD -- Mike Sanders' hat trick was impressive, but not quite enough to lead the Temple Terrace Tour Tritons to a roller hockey title.

The week in review
WOMAN SHOOTS, KILLS INTRUDER: Moments after shooting a masked neighbor who tried to sexually assault her at knifepoint, a terrified Maria Pittaras called 911. "I just shot a man, a man was just in my house, and tried raping me, and I shot him, oh my God," Pittaras, trembling and struggling for breath, told a Pasco County dispatcher early Wednesday.