August 2014
By KEVIN BRADY The pencils are sharpened and the lesson plans are primed. All that’re needed are the students and the teachers. And while pep rallies are usually limited to…
The Firehouse Cultural Center, or FCC, in Ruskin hosted students, ages eight to 14, at its Summer Arts Camps. The camps began in early July and featured theater, clay and…
By LIA MARTIN There are still many things we don’t know about how the ear works. How do we hear, and how do we lose our hearing? Some are born…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Michelle and I were in our backyard enjoying a beautiful August morning when I noticed she was staring off at … something. “What are you thinking about?”…
By PENNY FLETCHER With growth, industry attraction and eco-tourism all taking center stage on South County’s agenda, new studies are being done to show exactly what problems now exist and…
By KEVIN BRADY It was the purse that broke the camel’s back. Kimberly Gill was about to pick up her granddaughter from an after-school program on U.S. 41 in Apollo…
In Times Square on August 14, the 69th anniversary of the end of the war, World War II veteran Sydnor Thompson, 90, reenacted the famous kiss with his wife, Harriette,…
By LIA MARTIN Imagine an almost surefire test to make sure the prescriptions your doctor is prescribing are working for you rather than harming you. Genetic testing for medications has…
Dear Editor, Many of your readers may wish to know what transpired at the SCCCA Board Meeting of August 13th. The hot issue to be decided at that meeting was…