Observations
Observations: Cutting into the bone?

Observations: Cutting into the bone?

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I arrived at the county tax collector’s office at 7:30 a.m., hoping against hope that the process would be quick and as painless as possible. The…

February 18, 2015Comments OffRead More

Observations: Adventures in moving

Observations: Adventures in moving

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I’ve discovered one of the best things about growing older is that I can check things off an imaginary list — a list of things…

January 28, 2015Comments OffRead More

News

Hunger Gap Map pinpoints SCC seniors

Hunger Gap Map pinpoints SCC seniors

By KEVIN BRADY Hunger is a problem for some Sun City Center seniors, according to…

February 25, 2015Comments OffRead More

Lennard High School students prepare for careers in teaching

Lennard High School students prepare for careers in teaching

By LISA STARK Around her neck, Leslie Devlin wears a silver necklace that repeats the…

February 25, 2015Comments OffRead More

Have a Heart Caring Castle in its final week — donations still needed!

Have a Heart Caring Castle in its final week — donations still needed!

The last in a series of articles on South County groups benefiting from the “Have…

February 25, 2015Comments OffRead More

Making a Getaway from paradise

Making a Getaway from paradise

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN My finger was hovering over the “Purchase Tickets” button on the JetBlue…

February 25, 2015Comments OffRead More

Hunger Gap Map pinpoints SCC seniors

Hunger Gap Map pinpoints SCC seniors

By KEVIN BRADY Hunger is a problem for some…

Lennard High School students prepare for careers in teaching

Lennard High School students prepare for careers in teaching

By LISA STARK Around her neck, Leslie Devlin wears…

Have a Heart Caring Castle in its final week — donations still needed!

Have a Heart Caring Castle in its final week — donations still needed!

The last in a series of articles on South…

Making a Getaway from paradise

Making a Getaway from paradise

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN My finger was hovering over the…

On the road again … Georgia’s historic Antebellum Trail

On the road again … Georgia’s historic Antebellum Trail

By WARREN RESEN North American Travel Journalists Assn. JEANNE…

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…

Observations: Cutting into the bone?

Observations: Cutting into the bone?

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I arrived at the county tax collector’s…

Observations: Adventures in moving

Observations: Adventures in moving

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I’ve discovered one of the best…

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…

Letter to the Editor: February 26, 2015

Dear Editor, Meals of Hope wishes to thank everyone…

Letter: February 12, 2015

What Sun City Center Needs Now: Next Generation Step-Up…

Letter to the Editor: January 29, 2015

Hijacked by the bureaucracy The Florida Department of Environmental…

Letter to the Editor: January 22, 2015

Dear Editor, I would like to express my feelings…

Obituaries: February 26, 2015

Rex W. Ankrom Rex W. Ankrom,  94, died Feb.…

Obituaries: February 19, 2015

Mary A. Bailey Mary A. Bailey, 84, of Sun…

Obituaries: February 12, 2015

Chester Buck Chester Buck was born February 19, 1920,…

Obituaries: February 5, 2015

Lorinda Gibson Lorinda  (Linda) Hamilton Gibson of Sun City…

Features

On the road again … Georgia’s historic Antebellum Trail

By WARREN RESEN North American Travel Journalists Assn. JEANNE O’CONNOR photos Which would you think generates more passion in Georgia, the University of Georgia’s football team or…

February 11, 2015Comments Off

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

Headlines

Courage in the face of “The Big C”

By LISA STARK Cancer. “The Big C.” It’s a word that strikes terror in the hearts of many and stoic resolve in others. It’s not uncommon for…

February 25, 2015Comments Off

Follies celebrate the real SCC, one you may not expect

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Ann Lee McKenzie is a dancer. She once danced with the lights — and Ray Bolger — on Broadway. Al Spatola spent his life…

February 25, 2015Comments Off

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: February 26, 2015

Dear Editor, Meals of Hope wishes to thank everyone who turned out for the annual food packaging event at the Borini Theatre in Kings Point. It’s been…

February 25, 2015Comments Off

Observations: Cutting into the bone?

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I arrived at the county tax collector’s office at 7:30 a.m., hoping against hope that the process would be quick and as painless as possible.…

February 18, 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