February 2012
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN RUSKIN — Officers in the District IV Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Ruskin have been kept busy over the past week.The HCSO announced last week that they…
Shoppers at the monthly SouthShore Market in Ruskin were greeted with blue skies, cool temperatures and a wide selection of vendors with products ranging from photography to farm fresh produce.…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Last week I had an hour to kill while waiting for my flight home at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. The weather was actually survivable for January in…
A community garage sale held last week to benefit Diego Duran, the boy wounded by ‘celebratory’ gunfire on New Years Eve was a success. According to organizer Bruce Marsh, “people…
By MELODY JAMESON KINGS POINT – Multiple aspects of the Hillsborough Sheriff’s public safety resources were concentrated here Saturday, responding to an emergency ultimately defused without any injury. The situation…
By MELODY JAMESON SUN CITY CENTER – If you’re an inveterate “better mouse trap” builder, there’s a community association committee here that wants to hear from you resident creative thinkers.…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN GIBSONTON — What began as a dream from prominent local businessmen 25 years ago has come full circle. This year, the East Bay Buccaneers Youth Football and…
By MELODY JAMESON BALM – Bolstered by a firsthand look inside the Hillsborough Correctional Institution here last week, local legislators took the campaign to keep the uniquely successful female prison…