2011
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…
TAYLOR, William Lee William Lee Taylor, age 77 of Murfreesboro, TN, died Friday, January 14, 2011. He was a native of Onondaga, MI and the son of the late…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN As time has passed, I’ve become a firm believer in the adage that discretion is the better part of valor. Upon hearing of the tragedy in…
By MELODY JAMESON Known as the “original grassroots citizens network,” a unit of the 90-year-old League of Women Voters is shaping up for South Hillsborough County. The most suitable specific…
I’ve spent nearly 15 years in Florida and have seen countless critters from venomous snakes to bobcats. It was near Jacksonville, however, that I saw my first otter. MITCH…