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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.…
By LISA STARK Take a stroll down any Florida beach and what do you see? Seashells, sunshine, tans and — tattoos? That’s right, tattoos are everywhere these days. From athletes,…
By KEVIN BRADY About to take over as principal at Collins Elementary in Riverview, Rebecca Sargable sees the new position as a homecoming of sorts. “My family is all…
By KEVIN BRADY The ticker-tape parades that welcomed home veterans of World War II were absent when Vietnam veterans returned from war. Vilified by some, ignored by many, Vietnam veterans…