The Carrollwood Area Business Association capped a busy week with a ribbon-cutting celebration for one of its newest members, Westshore Injury Clinic.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Tampa Bay area continues to get back to work post-pandemic.

CARROLLWOOD — Carrollwood Players Theatre will present “The Wedding Singer” on Friday, June 10, through Saturday, July 2. Friday and Saturday performances will be at 8 p.m.; Sunday shows at 2 p.m.

Citrus Park Town Center has filed a lawsuit against Regal Cinemas, the movie theater that has operated at the suburban mall for 23 years.

The whirlwind Hillsborough County Public Schools graduation season blew through the Florida State Fairgrounds.

May is Mental Health Awareness month and agencies and organizations throughout Hillsborough County are on a public-outreach offensive.

Anyone interested in adopting or fostering any of this week’s featured pets can make an appointment to meet them at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center, 440 N. Falkenburg Road, by calling 813-744-5660 or going online to https://service.hillsboroughcounty.org/311/animal-request/.

CARROLLWOOD — Grammy-nominated guitarist Diego Figueiredo will perform 8 p.m. Friday, June 3, at the Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road.

Skateboarding and local government. What bond could be tighter? Plenty, you say? Well, area skaters and Hillsborough County Parks and Recreation showed that the relationship is A-OK and coexistence can be fun.

Going private to enroll students into a Montessori Academy program is no longer a requirement in Hillsborough County.

The school year’s end is near but it’s never too soon to start preparing for the future.

April Gillyard is returning to Memorial Middle, a school she led successfully before taking a job in the district’s Transformation Schools office. Jesse Salters is leaving Blake High, a school that weathered public criticism about the way it responded to sexual harassment complaints.

For the first-grade students of Knights Elementary School, the deal couldn’t be sweeter.

Visitors to Adventure Island water park in Tampa are now swimming in the park’s biggest makeover in 30 years.

A look inside the Metropolitan Ministries Logistics Warehouse says it all. Those empty shelves? That’s not normal. Not by a long shot.

Fix the roads for vehicle travel, but don’t forget to repair where people walk on the sides of them, too.

Anyone interested in adopting or fostering any of this week’s featured pets can make an appointment to meet them at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center.

Reception set for Tamborlane paintings

CARROLLWOOD – The Carrollwood Players Theatre will present “Lickspittles, Buttonholers, And Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens” Friday, May 20, through Sunday, May 21, in a black box staged reading.

Pulling off a successful surprise isn’t always easy. Add half a dozen clearly obvious media members and television cameras to the equation and the degree of difficulty jumps significantly.

The Carrollwood Cultural Center will increase accessibility for blind and low-vision patrons using $15,000 awarded through the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Competitive Grant for the fiscal year 2022.

Anyone interested in adopting or fostering any of this week’s featured pets can make an appointment to meet them at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center, 440 N. Falkenburg Road, by calling 813-744-5660 or going online to https://service.hillsboroughcounty.org/311/animal-request/.

The Jim Burge Jazz Festival comes to the Carrollwood Cultural Center this weekend and features two days of musical acts from the Tampa area.

Mixed Nuts Counseling and founder Amanda Corbin celebrated one year in business last week by hosting a ribbon-cutting event with the Carrollwood Area Business Association.

Hot Rocks Pizza co-owners Denny Haywood and Marvin Mendez first met several years ago when their sons were playing baseball for Forest Hills Youth Baseball in Carrollwood. The two men started coaching together and from that point their friendship grew. But baseball wasn’t the only thing that…

Jimmie Keel, who served as Hillsborough County’s first Black social worker and rose to become assistant county administrator, died Saturday, April 16. He was 83.

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay and Florida Voices for Animals are offering a combined $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved with the deaths and abandonment of nearly 30 guinea pigs found behind a Carrollwood Walmart last week.

CARROLLWOOD – An oil painting of Maya Angelou titled “Maya” by Daniel DeWindt won first place in the Black Art Matters art exhibition at the Gallery at Carrollwood Cultural Center during an artist reception on April 8.

Anyone interested in adopting or fostering any of this week’s featured pets can make an appointment to meet them at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center, 440 N. Falkenburg Road, by calling 813-744-5660 or going online to https://service.hillsboroughcounty.org/311/animal-request/.

Leto 4-H named LifeSmarts champs

Company leaders and visionaries and a local state representative were on hand recently at HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital to celebrate the unveiling of the new Hospital for Endocrine Surgery.

Newcomers of Northwest Hillsborough, a women’s social group that’s been active for more than 40 years, will get a behind-the-scenes tour of Tampa International Airport next month.

Anyone interested in adopting or fostering any of this week’s featured pets can make an appointment to meet them at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center, 440 N. Falkenburg Road, by calling 813-744-5660 or going online to https://service.hillsboroughcounty.org/311/animal-request/.

Organizers with the Carrollwood Cultural Center are providing plenty of notice for the community to mark calendars.

Tampa Briefs

As gasoline prices have risen throughout the country this past year, the prevalence of criminals trying to cheat the system has increased as well.

NORTHDALE — Things will be hopping at the Northdale Park and Recreation Center in April.

Hillsborough County commissioners will hear about a proposed sales tax referendum later this month. They already got an earful from one of their own April 6 about disposing of $562 million collected under the prior transportation levy.

After a two-year break from gathering in person, the annual Women’s Conference of Florida is back April 8 at the Tampa Convention Center.

Anyone interested in adopting or fostering any of this week’s featured pets can make an appointment to meet them at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center, 440 N. Falkenburg Road, by calling 813-744-5660 or going online to https://service.hillsboroughcounty.org/311/animal-request/

Hillsborough County is inviting residents to review and comment on the proposed Armdale Fire Station No. 10 replacement.

“How do you do it?” It’s the primary question posed to anyone fortunate enough to be celebrating birthdays at an advanced age. And the higher the number, the more interesting the answer becomes.

CARROLLWOOD — The Carrollwood Cultural Center will host several events and activities this coming week. The center is located at 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa. For information, visit carrollwoodcenter.org.