February 2014
By Kevin Brady It’s the children who break Sharon Van Loan’s heart. Hungry and sometimes too embarrassed to go to school because they have no shoes or clean clothes, the children…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN When she received the phone call, Regenia Smith, a former US Marine and a teacher at Collins Elementary School in Riverview, thought someone was playing a joke…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to be a hippie, although I had no idea what a hippie actually was. I had assumed it was…
By PENNY FLETCHER The scene turned ugly at the Feb. 12 monthly meeting of the Sun City Center Community Association Board when name-calling erupted during discussion of a need for a…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Herb Silbert is on a mission. He is not an extremist on a political mission; in fact, what he hopes for isn’t even for himself. He is on…
By Kevin Brady Sitting down for a blood pressure screening at a health fair at Ring Power Corp., the man thought he felt fine. A few minutes later he was…
By Kevin Brady Family and friends of Alejandra Carmona, who died in a Ruskin mobile-home fire on Valentine’s Day, are trying to raise money to help pay for the four-year-old child’s…
James R. Carney James R. Carney, 87, of Sun City Center, Fla., passed away February 14, 2014. He served in the United States Navy and retired as a charter boat…
Dear Editor, Taxpayers in Sun City Center are paying Hillsborough County millions of dollars to “fix” the street drains! But why? Some reasons I have heard: the design is no…