April 2014
By Mitch Traphagen In New York City, beautiful people fluidly, elegantly step from surprisingly litter-free curbs to hail cabs. In Jersey, beautiful or not, but mostly, like me, not, people…
By KEVIN BRADY A Riverview animal rescue group for abused horses stands accused of not taking care of two horses placed in its care by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.…
By KEVIN BRADY The sheer dimensions of The Mosaic Company’s newest warehouse in Gibsonton are enough to make a math whiz reach for his calculator. If the tallest building in Tampa,…
By LIA MARTINlia@observernews.net Water wars, lawsuits and economic problems due to projected water shortages have plagued Florida and neighboring states for a decade. Tampa Bay counties have been grabbing each…
By Chere Simmons chere@observernews.net The gap in the heart of Tampa Bay’s delicate greenway ecosystem has been bridged. The Bahia Beach Habitat Restoration Area now links several wildlife corridor projects…
By KEVIN BRADY The county appears to have heard those calling for a change in a land code amendment that will guide growth in large areas of Ruskin. Now it’s up…
Martha Kennard Atherton-Fleetwood Martha Atherton-Fleetwood passed away peacefully on February 20, 2014, just one month shy of her 99th birthday. Born in Chicago in 1915, Martha was the daughter of…
Dear Editor, In the April 3 issue of The SCC Observer Paddy Cooney did an excellent job describing the “paradise” we have here in Sun City Center. The writer had…
Artists Celso Gonzalez and Roberto Biaggi, pictured at far left in the photo, led groups of volunteers in the creation of a mosaic mural on an exterior wall of the…