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- Hearing Lakeland’s Fireworks Not The Same As Seeing Them, By George
- Time for a patriotic song.
- Crist Engaged To Rome
- Supremes: Crist Erred On Gambling Pact
- Polk Schools Dealing With High Diesel Costs
- Take trolley, streetcar to fireworks
- Isn’t it Fun to Fly?
- Hail, Gusty Winds, Possible Tornado Results From Afternoon Storms
- Portable High Definition Televisions
- Andy Martin—Remember Him?—Gets His Moment In The Sun
- There’s One Behind Every Tree …
- Tornado Warning Up For Sebring Area
- More Storms Heading Toward North Hillsborough, Southeast Pasco
- Storms Forming Near I-75
- Another Afternoon Of Active Thunderstorms
Snakes And Lizards And Bugs, Oh My!
In Keisha Rentz’s fourth-grade class, Kelly Diedring hoists Oscar, the lazy-looking lizard—a blue-tongue skink from Australia, to be exact. She shows him to the morning class at Cahoon Elementary Magnet School, which specializes in animal sciences. It’s the first class of the first day of school, and the lizard has captured everyone’s attention.
Principal Tanly Cabrera asks the class how many are new to the school on Yukon Street just south of Busch Boulevard. About a half-dozen raise their hands.
“This will not be unusual for you to see all kinds of animals—snakes, lizards and bugs,” she says. The students eagerly pet the skink.
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