February 2011
By MELODY JAMESONmj@observernews.net SUN CITY CENTER – Steps being taken toward a multi-faceted senior health care center here are forecasting a future outline of the unique facility. On one hand,…
By Mitch Traphagenmitch@observernews.net RUSKIN — The community and the congregation of the Ruskin United Methodist Church are mourning the loss of Rev. John Bartha, following his death from an accidental…
By Mitch Traphagenmitch@observernews.net RIVERVIEW — A Riverview teenager has died from injuries sustained while taking part in a sport she loved. Brooke Ann Coats, 16, died at Tampa General Hospital…
By Mitch Traphagenmitch@observernews.net SUN CITY CENTER – “We usually ask for the trauma unit because a lot of other people won’t go there,” said Jean Kluger. “It is very hard.”…
By PENNY FLETCHERpenny@observernews.net RIVERVIEW- Several changes in the way the Greater Riverview Chamber of Commerce does business has enabled it to hold its membership level throughout 2010 and go into…
By MELODY JAMESONmj@observernews.net So, how would you, a South County citizen, spend U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) money, if you could write the checks distributing your tax…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN mitch@observernews.net GIBSONTON – Go out to the garage and find an old baseball glove, then hold it up to your face to smell the leather. Decades of…
BELKNAP, Capt. Raymond Arnold Capt. Raymond Arnold Belknap , 92, widower of Rachael Misel Belknap, died Tues. Feb 8, 2011 at Lexington Country Place in Lexington, KY. Born in…
By MELODY JAMESON What was life like in South Hillsborough 70 years ago? Should that question be posed later in this century, as certainly it could be, there won’t be…