October 2010
By MELODY JAMESON SUN CITY CENTER – It all looks so customary, so normal, so official. The very valid-appearing check in the rational amount of $2,520.45 is made payable to…
By Mitch Traphagen With the blissfully cooler temperatures in the Tampa Bay area recently, it is easy to forget that we are still in the heart of hurricane season. October,…
MITCH TRAPHAGEN In Sun City Center, an elderly man checks into what will be his last home — a room in a hospice house. Our lives may differ but…
Entrance to the Sandpiper Inn on Longboat Key. By WARREN RESEN, Member of the Florida Outdoor Writers Assoc. One in a series of Florida Travel articles Traveling to the…
By MELODY JAMESON SUN CITY CENTER – Two new vehicles have been added to this community’s Security Patrol fleet courtesy of three recent cash contributions. MELODY JAMESON Twins to this…
By MELODY JAMESON RUSKIN – As the mid-term November election looms on the horizon, South County voters have just two more public opportunities to question their candidates before marking ballots…
MITCH TRAPHAGEN Lone Pine RV Park manager Dennis Courtway looks out at a swarm of bees that rapidly colonized a tree in his park over the weekend. Below is a…
By Penny Fletcherpenny@observernews.net RIVERVIEW – Deputies now say one person has been confirmed dead after a shooting involving two victims in the Summerfield area of Riverview last night. Shortly before…
By PENNY FLETCHERpenny@observernews.net SUN CITY CENTER — Every year pets are blessed by priests and ministers around the world on Oct. 4, the day that St. Francis of Assisi,…