February 2012
A true miracle occurred Friday night at the Sun City Center Chamber of Commerce. In less than six hours over $6,300 was donated in checks and cash to a medical…
By MELODY JAMESON RUSKIN – On the frontier here one hundred years ago, this community’s women were enjoying a legal equality unknown to their sisters in northern cities. Their votes…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I realized very early on in college that I could never major in finance. What caused that realization you may (but probably didn’t) ask? It’s because the…
By MITCH TRAPHAGENSUN CITY CENTER — According to the Federal Trade Commission, more than 25 million Americans are victims of fraud each year. As the fastest growing segment of the…
By PENNY FLETCHER SUN CITY CENTER — Money donated to the Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center finds its way all over South County and occasionally elsewhere if a…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN RUSKIN — The curtains, or more accurately, the bay doors, are rising on the Firehouse Cultural Center in Ruskin this week with performance artist Leland Faulkner, the…
By MELODY JAMESON SUN CITY CENTER — Following intense campaigns pro and con, residents here have rejected a community capital improvements building program and its proposed financing. The issues —…
Shirley Ann McCormick Peterson GingeryShirley Ann McCormick Peterson Gingery of Freedom Plaza, Sun City Center, FL, died Feb. 4. Shirley was born March 16, 1921 in Fairmount, IN, and graduated…
By MELODY JAMESON Considering application of a still novel approach, citizen community planners in the Little Manatee River area may chart new ground as they move into a second phase…