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Teaching in the Wake of Growth

By Mitch Traphagen

GIBSONTON - The school is huge. Only partially visible to passing traffic on Big Bend Road, the sprawling single story building includes portable classrooms and even portable teachers.

That's right, portable teachers. A handful of instructors do not have permanent classrooms and travel the hallways along with the students between classes teaching in rooms that become available throughout the day.

As people flock to south Hillsborough County, the stories are usually of booming real estate and commercial markets. Growth is a way of life in south county. Few people, however, stop to think about the wake of that tremendous growth. That wake is a way of life at Eisenhower Middle School.  More

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Rainbow Family Learning Program Returns to Ruskin

By Brenda Knowles

RUSKIN - May 8 is the long anticipated grand re-opening of the Rainbow Family Learning Program. Eight years ago the program lost its home when its leased building was sold.  More

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It's Time for the Ruskin Tomato Festival

The Ruskin Tomato and Heritage Festival will be held on May 3 and 4 at E.G. Simmons Park. The festival will include a Kid's Fun Zone, the Miss Ruskin Tomato Festival contest, a star search contest, craft vendors and many other traditional and new favorites. The entrance fee is $3 and children six and under are free. The festival hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  

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