Mitch Traphagen
Observations: Life: Part Two
The last day of my 40s was spent in a hospital room with my Mom. Recently out of surgery, she was only occasionally aware that
Faith for a Bullet Free Sky
Somewhere in South Hillsborough this New Year's Eve, the sky will now be bullet free....
Mike Huckabee sees the love in SCC
The book, which began as a collection of letters, is something he could give his grandchildren that would last forever. ...Observations: Meet Zoe. She is one of us
American writer and newspaperman Finley Peter Dunne once famously said that newspapers have the ability to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Indeed, in ...
For Thanksgiving, a bounty of choices in the food you eat
America was and still is a world agricultural powerhouse....
Oliver North draws a crowd at SCC Business Expo
More than 100 people lined up to purchase the new book and for autographs....
Music, Honor and Remembrance mark Veterans Day in SCC
The event, A Tribute to Our Community’s Veterans, was sponsored by the combined military veterans organizations in the community....
In SCC: An event shows how things could be
More than 200 seniors were doing something nice for a bunch of children they don’t even know....
Where every weekend is a seafood festival
When the construction industry dried up, Steve Fagan found the answers to his future by looking to the past. You can’t get seafood more fresh than from the Mullet Shack....
The road to serendipity
Newspapers around the nation are struggling, but I think it has as much to do with how the newspapers are run than it does the ...
Portraits of Power offers unique, eye-level look at world leaders
Within the larger-than-life images are faces of majesty and, perhaps, madness; humility and mystery; confidence and compassion. ...
Windy days in Florida turn to nightmares up north as Sandy wreaks havoc
With a gale-force wind diameter of nearly 1,000 miles, Hurricane Sandy became the largest hurricane by diameter ever observed in the North Atlantic, surpassing Hurricane Igor of 2010....
Making a difference, one pencil at a time
In today’s increasingly connected world, even the youngest of children are aware of global problems. ...Author info
Mitch Traphagen
Mitch Traphagen is a photojournalist, columnist and online editor for the Observer News Publications. He is the recipient of 55 awards of excellence from the Community Papers of Florida for his photography and writing. He has worked for some of the nation’s largest corporations, as Press Secretary for a U.S. Congressman, owned and published a weekly newspaper, and produced a commercial documentary video on sailing. He is a Commodore in the Seven Seas Cruising Association (ssca.org). Mitch is a writer, photographer, sailor and traveler with a bit of a geek thing going on. You can visit his personal website at mitchtraphagen.com