January 2011
By PENNY FLETCHER SOUTH COUNTY — With record numbers of foreclosures, job losses and builders going bankrupt, many areas in south Hillsborough County are saturated with vacant houses that…
Shadow Marie at home in the Little Harbor Village Marina in Ruskin. By MITCH TRAPHAGEN A few years ago during the peak of the housing bubble, I whined and complained…
USCG Auxiliary District Seven Commander Amos Johnson administers the oath of office to the Flotilla 75 staff officers. MITCH TRAPHAGEN PHOTOS By MITCH TRAPHAGEN RUSKIN — The United States Coast…
By MELODY JAMESON RIVERVIEW – Recognizing extraordinary individual achievement and honoring outstanding community involvement in 2010, chamber of commerce members here have singled out seven of their own for the…
The final chapter in an Observer News feature series By MITCH TRAPHAGEN With a look at a map, you can see that Cape Cod juts well out into the North…
By MELODY JAMESON Sun City Center – Driven by concerns about increased traffic and crime, hundreds of retirees here have signaled they’ll pass on a new southside entrance. Surrounded…
SMITH, Harriet A. After 101 years on this earth, Mrs. Harriet A. Smith, went to be with the Lord in the evening of Sunday, Jan.18, 2011. She was a long-time…
By PENNY FLETCHER WIMAUMA- Dean Pickering has been on the road – literally– for his entire life. “I was born in Allentown, Penn. between revivals,” he told me recently…
By PENNY FLETCHER WIMAUMA- Dean Pickering has been on the road – literally– for his entire life. “I was born in Allentown, Penn. between revivals,” he told me recently…