February 2019
PCAT Literacy Ministries makes major difference for some area youth By LOIS KINDLE Parents and Children Advance Together (PCAT) Literacy Ministries will soon finish its fourth school year of giving…
Commissioner Murman meeting Feb. 27 at Gardenville Gibsonton wants county action on numerous problems By STEPHEN FLANAGAN JACKSON Residents of this oft-ignored small but unique and growing town in Hillsborough…
Bradenton Pirates Booster Club ready for baseball’s spring training season By CARL MARIO NUDI The first home game of the spring training season of the Major League Baseball Pittsburgh Pirates…
Manatee Heritage Days to be held March 1-31 This year marks the 40th year for Manatee Heritage Days. As Bubbles Greer, one of the founders of Heritage Days wrote “The…
Chamber News & Views Are the best things in life really free? That’s what “they” say. Now, I haven’t actually been able to determine who “they” are, but they seem…
Need win to stay alive By STEVE JACKSON The Ruskin Christian School varsity basketball team won its first round playoff game last week and had a second round match Feb.…
My effort to spread light in the world Dear Editor, All around us we see it: Heated Facebook exchanges, scathing news stories and constant unrest overseas. It seems there are…
Positive Talk What are you willing to spend to get what you want? James Allen in his great little book, As A Man Thinketh, wrote the following: “Men are anxious…
Three Bulls Tavern and Brewery to open in Brandon this spring Hand-crafted brews and gastro pub fare By YVETTE C. HAMMETT When Tracy Mellody began brewing beer in her backyard seven…