April 2015
Hundreds of locals turned out March 21 for the Family Salsa Festival at the Good Samaritan Mission in Wimauma. The event included vendors, music, games and a salsa contest. …
Hydro Harvest Farms held its sixth annual Easter “Eggscavenger” Hunt on Saturday, a free event for children and families. Dozens of families turned out for the hunt, which included crafts…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Some 200 people turned out for a county meeting on backflow valves in Sun City Center on March 27. The meeting was effectively a continuation of a…
By LISA STARK They arrived with a flourish on Friday night, riding Harleys and sporting leather vests with the Nam Knights logo emblazoned on their backs. A motorcycle club comprising…
By KEVIN BRADY “The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.” So said George Bernard Shaw, one of the 20th century’s greatest playwrights and the only person…
By KEVIN BRADY A few choice epithets and rotten eggs greeted Skip Smith when he stepped off the plane at San Francisco airport, returning home after serving in Vietnam. “My…
Part 1 of an Observer News feature story By MITCH TRAPHAGEN The fish swim forward. On the carpet, that is. On a ship this large, with 4,000 people and nearly…
Sun City Center store to reopen May 1 By LISA STARK April 1st marks the anniversary of 10 successful years in business for the Crossroads Ace Hardware Store in Riverview.…