Observations
Setting a course

Setting a course

Observations: Setting a course By MITCH TRAPHAGEN *Click here to email* On a beautiful September Saturday, I stood on the seawall at the yacht club and marina in Atlantic Highlands, N.J.,…

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Camping out in an airport

Camping out in an airport

PUBLISHED SEPT. 1, 2016 Camping out in an airport By MITCH TRAPHAGEN *Click here to email* The flight was affordable and had an excellent on-time record. It would land in the…

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News

Reef and beach clean up

Reef and beach clean up

PUBLISHED SEPT. 29, 2016 Local environmental group to hold reef and beach clean up By…

September 28, 2016Comments Off on Reef and beach clean upRead More

Pinwheels for Peace

Pinwheels for Peace

PUBLISHED SEPT. 29, 2016 Apollo Beach Elementary School students make, plant pinwheels for peace By…

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Paws to Remember – Sept. 2016

Paws to Remember – Sept. 2016

Bella Yesterday (Sept. 22, 2016) was one of the hardest days of my entire life.…

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NAMI to host 3K walk/run

NAMI to host 3K walk/run

PUBLISHED SEPT. 29, 2016 NAMI to host Making Strides for Mental Health 3K Walk/Run By…

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Reef and beach clean up

Reef and beach clean up

PUBLISHED SEPT. 29, 2016 Local environmental group to hold…

Pinwheels for Peace

Pinwheels for Peace

PUBLISHED SEPT. 29, 2016 Apollo Beach Elementary School students…

Paws to Remember – Sept. 2016

Paws to Remember – Sept. 2016

Bella Yesterday (Sept. 22, 2016) was one of the…

NAMI to host 3K walk/run

NAMI to host 3K walk/run

PUBLISHED SEPT. 29, 2016 NAMI to host Making Strides…

Safe at Home XI: Who changes your diaper?

By JIMMY CURTIS 11th in a series Who changes…

Safe at Home X: The 5 Ps

Safe at Home X: The 5 Ps

By JIMMY CURTIS Tenth in a series Several decades…

Safe at Home IX: 33573 — the have-nots

By JIMMY CURTIS Ninth in a series Zip 33573…

Safe at Home VIII: 33573 — a tale of two cities

Safe at Home VIII: 33573 — a tale of two cities

By JIMMY CURTIS Eighth in a series Zip code…

Setting a course

Setting a course

Observations: Setting a course By MITCH TRAPHAGEN *Click here to email* On…

Camping out in an airport

Camping out in an airport

PUBLISHED SEPT. 1, 2016 Camping out in an airport…

The barbers

The barbers

PUBLISHED AUG. 4, 2016 The Barbers By MITCH TRAPHAGEN…

The thin blue line

The thin blue line

PUBLISHED JULY 14, 2016 By MITCH TRAPHAGEN *Click here to email* Perhaps…

Letter to the Editor: December 17, 2015

Dear Editor, I sincerely feel the judging of the…

letters to the Editor: December 10, 2015

Dear Editor, I’m scratching my head regarding our recent…

Letters to the Editor: December 3, 2015

Dear Editor, Re: Positive Talk by William Hodges He…

Letters to the Editor: November 26, 2015

Dear Editor, Mr. Ed Barnes (Past Sun City Center…

Obituaries: Sept. 29, 2016

Eugenia Beam Eugenia “Jean” Beam passed away in Monroe,…

Obituaries: September 22, 2016

Robert Albert Fuller Sr. Robert Albert Fuller, Sr., age…

Obituaries: September 15, 2016

Emerson Paul Grassan Emerson Paul Grassan, 98, of Sun…

OBITUARIES: Sept. 8, 2016

Miner Schrader Miner “Jerry” Schrader, age 73, went to…

Features

Safe at Home XI: Who changes your diaper?

By JIMMY CURTIS 11th in a series Who changes your diaper? When you were young and helpless, it was mommy. When you are old and helpless, it…

May 11, 2016Comments Off on Safe at Home XI: Who changes your diaper?

Safe at Home X: The 5 Ps

By JIMMY CURTIS Tenth in a series Several decades ago in one of my failed business ventures, a producer/director of TV commercials gave me words of wisdom…

April 13, 2016Comments Off on Safe at Home X: The 5 Ps

Headlines

ABC Superhero Fun Run

PUBLISHED SEPT. 29, 2016 3rd annual ABC Superhero Fun Run to benefit community’s real  superheroes By LOIS KINDLE *Click here to email* Three years ago a group of school-age children…

September 28, 2016Comments Off on ABC Superhero Fun Run

Farmers’ Market returns to downtown

PUBLISHED SEPT. 29, 2016 Farmers’ Market returns to downtown By CARL MARIO NUDI *Click here to email* Now that fall has arrived, it signals the opening of the Bradenton Farmers’…

September 28, 2016Comments Off on Farmers’ Market returns to downtown

Opinion

Words

Let the name-calling commence By Christina Olka Freedom Director, South Bay Church, *Click here to email* By definition, a name is “a set of words by which a person is…

September 28, 2016Comments Off on Words

Words

Words can hurt; words can heal By Christina Olka Freedom Director, South Bay Church, southbay.cc Words have cosmic value. They have the power to bring life or…

September 22, 2016Comments Off on Words

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 on Underwater archeologists search for Florida’s History