October 9, 2003
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East Bay Holds On To Win in
Riverview
By Mitch Traphagen
RIVERVIEW - What happens when two evenly matched
teams from a strong rivalry meet on the playing field?
As it always happens, only one team can walk away the
winner. On Friday night at J. Vince Thompson Stadium in Riverview, the
East Bay High School Indians walked away the winner with a 17-14 win over
the Sharks. More
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Area High School Football
Schedules
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Riding English
Style Through Suburbia
By Mitch Traphagen
RIVERVIEW - The headline from a
reader story in the Brandon section of the St. Petersburg Times reads,
"Sprawl has metastasized in once-peaceful Riverview in just a few years,
with no end in sight."
The picture that the headline paints, however, isn’t
entirely complete. Even in Riverview, there are pockets of resistance, the
occasional island oasis among the marching waves in the churned up ocean
of urban sprawl.
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Our Town: Building Character
With Words
RUSKIN - Concepts like Respectful, Responsible, and Self-Discipline are
not necessarily inherent in children. Rather, they are concepts that are taught.
Ruskin Elementary School is asking the community to assist
them in teaching these important concepts to students by displaying the words on
marquees throughout the area. More
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Our Town - Symmes Teacher Selected for
Fullbright Program in Japan
RIVERVIEW - As if being named Teacher of the Year wasn’t
enough, Symmes Elementary School teacher Sue Creekmore was recently selected as
a participant in the Fullbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program.
Through the program, Creekmore will spend three weeks in
Japan in an effort to promote greater intercultural understanding between the
two nations. More
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Our Town - A Colorful Celebration of
Mexican Independence in Wimauma
WIMAUMA - There were colorful dancers, floats
and a parade as hundreds of spectators turned out for the Mexican
Independence Day celebration in Wimauma on Sept. 14.
More
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In The Archives:
Finding Florida: Fire up the
motorcycle and join the Observer News for a different type of travel
story. Tourist motels, road kill and a whole lot of heaven
awaits.
Part One:
Searching From the Beginning
Part
Two: Heading Home
Part
Three: Back to the Islands
The Changing Face of South Hillsborough:
The rumors are flying about several big box retailers moving into
south county. The facts, however, are few. Yet one in every ten new
jobs created in the entire nation came from the Tampa-St.
Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan area. South county communities are
joining forces to become a strong player in that prospering market.
How will all of the changes effect our communities and area businesses
and what can south county shoppers expect from the future?
The three-part series is available on
the web:
Part One - Welcome
to SouthShore
Part Two - Meet
the Neighbors
Part
Three
- It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Home Depot!
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