November 2012
Raise money for scholarships while enjoying a complete Italian dinner prepared by Chef Tony at Summerfield Crossings Golf Club. It is sure to be a fun event with ambiance, good…
At age seven Dorothea Lange was stricken with polio, which left her with a lifetime limp. And at age 12, her father disappeared from the scene, leaving an impoverished household…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN According to a recent article by the Associated Press, an estimated 60,000 U.S. veterans sleep on the streets at night. Veterans make up approximately 14 percent of…
By MELODY JAMESON APOLLO BEACH — Individual drinking filters inhibiting water contaminates and bed netting to ward off insects – the simple but successful tools employed in The Carter Center’s…
The 24th annual Ruskin Seafood Festival took place last weekend under picture-perfect Florida skies, with thousands of people from around the Tampa Bay area visiting E.G. Simmons Park for the…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN If there were anything resembling Utopia among the realities of human transgression, sin, and frailty, it probably would look much like what took place outside of the…
The final score may look lopsided but the 2-7 Riverview Sharks put a scare into undefeated Durant in Riverview on Friday. The Sharks defense pressed hard, forcing turnovers and twice…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I wrote some of this as an editorial for my newspaper in Iowa in 2008. Four years later, I feel the same message applies. Compromise has been…
By PENNY FLETCHER SOUTH COUNTY- Ye Notorious Krewe of the Peg Leg Pirate, Inc. has been keeping amputees on the move since it first came into being in 2004. A…