July 2014
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN For August, Hydro Harvest Farms on East Shell Point Road in Ruskin will be holding its second annual “Double Up Food Bucks Month.” The owners of the…
By KEVIN BRADY With the first day of school, Aug. 19, looming, hundreds of schoolchildren in South County need help with basic school supplies such as books, pencils and notepads…
By PENNY FLETCHER Florida teenagers usually can’t wait for their 16th birthday so they can drive a car by themselves. Ryan Schultz of Ruskin earned that privilege on his 16th…
By PENNY FLETCHER As a teenager, Charles Calandra taught himself to play guitar by ear but couldn’t read music. “I’d listen to something and then pick it out,” he said…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN In the beginning, the dogs and the kids alike were excited and hopping around. After all, it’s not every day that you can walk into a public…
By KEVIN BRADY Overshadowed by both World War II and the Vietnam War, the Korean War is sometimes called the Forgotten War, but the conflict was front and center July…
By LIA MARTIN For Americans 65 years of age and older, as well as for younger people with certain disabilities, Medicare is available to help with the cost of medical…
By KEVIN BRADY East Bay football took a body blow in May, losing 24 seniors from the first team by graduation, but coach Frank LaRosa and his players are confident…
By LIA MARTIN To live in the shadow of the events of World War II would impact Americans in ways impossible to imagine now. That war involved more than 100…