Observations

Observations: One night in January

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Alec Baldwin looked like hell. Well, at least compared with his television character persona, he did. But compared with everyone else, he looked perfectly normal.…

January 14, 2015Comments OffRead More

Observations: Thank you

Observations: Thank you

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I once thought the best Christmas present I had ever received came at the age of about nine. That present was an H.O. gauge train…

January 7, 2015Comments OffRead More

News

HCC students, South Shore United Methodist team up to feed hungry children

HCC students, South Shore United Methodist team up to feed hungry children

By KEVIN BRADY “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘what are we doing for…

January 21, 2015Comments OffRead More

Almost There is almost here

Almost There is almost here

  By LISA STARK Contributing Writer/Photographer When you ask the members of Almost There to…

January 21, 2015Comments OffRead More

Water Ski Museum worth the trip.

Water Ski Museum worth the trip.

Spanning 9 decades of the sport’s history By LISA STARK Contributing Writer/Photographer Located off Florida’s…

January 21, 2015Comments OffRead More

Florida scrub jay is focus of Audubon February meeting

Florida scrub jay is focus of Audubon February meeting

The Sun City Center Audubon Club will meet Saturday, Feb. 7, in the Florida Room.…

January 21, 2015Comments OffRead More

HCC students, South Shore United Methodist team up to feed hungry children

HCC students, South Shore United Methodist team up to feed hungry children

By KEVIN BRADY “Life’s most persistent and urgent question…

Almost There is almost here

Almost There is almost here

  By LISA STARK Contributing Writer/Photographer When you ask…

Water Ski Museum worth the trip.

Water Ski Museum worth the trip.

Spanning 9 decades of the sport’s history By LISA…

Florida scrub jay is focus of Audubon February meeting

Florida scrub jay is focus of Audubon February meeting

The Sun City Center Audubon Club will meet Saturday,…

Southbound: A season ticket on a one-way ride

Southbound: A season ticket on a one-way ride

There are good ways and bad ways to travel…

A world apart: Door County, Wisconsin

PART TWO By WARREN RESEN North American Travel Journalists…

On the road again … A world apart: Door County, Wisconsin

On the road again … A world apart: Door County, Wisconsin

By WARREN RESEN North American Travel Journalists Assn. Jutting…

On the road again … Punta Gorda

On the road again … Punta Gorda

By WARREN RESEN North American Travel Journalists Assn. In…

Observations: One night in January

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Alec Baldwin looked like hell. Well,…

Observations: Thank you

Observations: Thank you

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I once thought the best Christmas…

Observations: Changing perspective in the New Year

Observations: Changing perspective in the New Year

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN A bare curly fluorescent bulb protruding from…

Talking about home for the holidays

Talking about home for the holidays

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN For the first time in my…

Letter to the Editor: January 22, 2015

Dear Editor, I would like to express my feelings…

Letter to the Editor: December 24, 2014

Is it really about communism? Dear Editor, How much…

Letters to the Editor: December 11, 2014

Dear Editor, The results of the vote in SCC…

Letters to the editor: November 27, 2014

Those who endure Dear Editor, They arrive at dawn…

Obituaries: January 22, 2015

Carolanne DiSciorio Carolanne DiSciorio (née Williamson) 78, of Sun…

Obituaries: January 15, 2015

Peter Frank Eakers Peter Frank Eakers, 90, of Sun…

Obituaries: January 8, 2015

William H. Barton William H. Barton, 84, of Sun…

Obituaries: January 1, 2015

David Cichanski David Cichanski of Sun City Center, Fla.,…

Features

Southbound: A season ticket on a one-way ride

There are good ways and bad ways to travel for the million or so snowbirds flocking south to the Florida sunshine. Unfortunately, most have to take the…

November 5, 2014Comments Off

A world apart: Door County, Wisconsin

PART TWO By WARREN RESEN North American Travel Journalists Assn. The ferry to Rock Island deposits passengers in a state park without cars or electricity. Reservations for…

September 25, 2014Comments Off

Headlines

Thousands turn out for sneak peek at new hospital

By KEVIN BRADY More than 7,000 people turned out Saturday for a look at South County’s newest hospital, a sparkling 112-bed, $237 million, 360,000-square-foot monument to the…

January 21, 2015Comments Off

Ruskin Recreation Center expansion is underway

Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department held the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion project at Ruskin Recreation Center Thursday, Jan. 15. The $1.7 million facility will…

January 21, 2015Comments Off

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: January 22, 2015

Dear Editor, I would like to express my feelings and those of other good people in Sun City Center about the possible closing of the Ace Hardware…

January 20, 2015Comments Off

Observations: One night in January

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Alec Baldwin looked like hell. Well, at least compared with his television character persona, he did. But compared with everyone else, he looked perfectly…

January 14, 2015Comments Off

Video

Interview with a mermaid

An interview with Weeki Wachee Springs Mermaid Carli Dofka. Mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida from Mitch Traphagen on Vimeo.…

August 29, 2012No Comment

Underwater archeologists search for Florida’s History

Dr. John Gifford, an underwater archeologist from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, talks about making a dive for 10,000 year old…

August 19, 2010Comments Off