July 2011
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN How much value is in a life? I began asking myself that question just over a week ago when a tiny kitten entered my own life. My…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN PARRISH – Just 12 miles south of Sun City Center, down a quiet country road, across a rutted dirt road and a horse pasture lays the town…
By MELODY JAMESON RUSKIN – Local visions of a community cultural center here solidified further this week with the possibility of $100,000 on the horizon. The potential funds in Hillsborough…
By PENNY FLETCHER SOUTH COUNTY – Twice a week Coleen Mercilliott gathers her SilverSneakers class and brings out the chairs. The group doesn’t use them to sit in unless they…
Alice KoproskiAlice Clara (Bancer) Koproski of Sun City Center, Fla., died July 4, 2011. She was born November 7, 1922 in Toledo, OH. In 1943 she married her husband, Paul…
By PAT AUSTINPresident, TSS Youth Sailing APOLLO BEACH — Young sailors, ages 7 to 17, are enjoying sailing classes by TSS Youth Sailing, Inc., in beautiful Bal Harbor, at 1250…
By PENNY FLETCHER SOUTH COUNTY — Since attending a health fair in January 1998 Sun City Center resident Dolores Berens has made it her business to see that families coping…
By MELODY JAMESON RUSKIN – Proposed changes designed for public safety at a “Redneck Riviera” here are generating questions, if not reddening some local necks. As a consequence, Hillsborough’s Parks,…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — I arrived at the off-base press office near Kennedy Space Center two days before the launch of Atlantis. I waited in line for…