May 2017
By LOIS KINDLE Folks who love schnitzel, spätzle, sausages and strudel will rejoice this week as the Old Castle German Restaurant reopens as the Old Castle Restaurant & Beer Barn.…
Hurricane season is here – are you prepared? By DANA DITTMAR CEO, SCC Chamber One of my favorite pictures of me as a kid was taken on Sept. 10, 1960.…
By LOIS KINDLE Nineteen years is a long time to wait. But now, after almost two decades, Calvary Lutheran Church members wait no more. They are celebrating the recent groundbreaking…
Barbara Ann Warner Barbara Ann Warner gained her angel wings on May 25, 2017. Her final days were spent surrounded by family and friends that Barbara had touched in some…
By YVETTE C. HAMMETT The beautiful, mature crape myrtle trees, planted a decade ago along U.S. 301 in Riverview, have been on the chopping block more than once, as the…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN It is a city so cool, so dynamic, so powerful — more powerful than any individual resident, regardless of wealth or status — that they actually named…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Monday, Memorial Day, as much of America enjoyed a day off from work, several hundred people gathered in Kings Point Veterans Theater for the annual Sun City…
Colonel Donald J. Acker Colonel Donald J. Acker, retired, U.S.A. of Sun City Center, Fla., formerly of West Hartford, Conn., died on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, while in the company…
Volunteer to get your name, face out there By DANA DITTMAR CEO, SCC Chamber of Commerce Several years ago, I found myself unemployed for several months. This was an unusual…