Penny Fletcher
‘Yea’ or ‘Nay’ membership vote to decide fate of SCC parking lot
Association members will vote on two things: to approve or not to approve the board spending $882,000 for central campus parking lot improvements and whether they want food service in a café area yet to be constructed.
Eating organic is catching on
We may have come a long way since our great-grandparents time, but many say our food isn’t nearly as good for us. ...
Time helping people is time well spent
When you hear of all her community activities, you wonder how she has time to work as vice president and branch manager. Yet she does. ...
The Crossing Church expects full house at grand opening May 12
In an age when media reports say that church attendance is down and many local houses of worship are trying to attract younger people, The Crossing leaders say they thrive because they focus on things young families and children need to feel at home....
Kindergartners grade high school author’s books
For more than two weeks students in Riverview High School’s creative writing class got to study Dr. Seuss books...
County to overhaul historic Gardenville School, expand park
The county’s Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department has big plans for changes at the Gardenville Recreation Center in Gibsonton....
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Riverview to offer 500 permanent jobs
Both the hospital and the medical facility together cost approximately $235 mil to the BayCare Health System....
South County librarian earns Friends of the Library Librarian of the Year Award
She has raised attendance in children's programs so that in 2012, 15,500 children and their guardians attended her program....
Master Plan calls for $5.7 mil facilities expansion
If the new parking area plan is approved by the community, 150 spaces will be added at the atrium area for cars and there will also be 40 more places to park golf carts. Parking will be “straight” instead of angle....Author info
Penny Fletcher
Penny has lived in South County since 1979; in Ruskin, Apollo Beach and Riverview and knows the area and its people well. Before becoming a correspondent for The Observer News and the Riverview Current, she wrote for The Tampa Tribune and has been the Bureau Editor for The East Bay Breeze, The Sun, and the South Shore News. Her work has earned many awards from the Florida Press Association and Community Papers of Florida; including First, Second and Third Place state-wide awards for News Writing, Original Writing, Feature Writing, Columns and Editorials. She has also been awarded a First Place, state-wide photography award.
From 2000 to 2006 she edited for Amazon Books publishing division, BookSurge, via the Web; wrote book jackets and marketing copy and worked one-on-one with many Amazon authors. She currently freelances as a writer, editor, speaker and coach at www.pennyfletcher.com.