August 2014
With a tagline of For Authors By Authors, Penny Fletcher opens Soaring Eagle Books. By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Penny Fletcher opened her eyes and gazed with weariness out the window, a…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN In the dream I awoke from last night, I was preparing to leave Florida. I had checked the bilge on the boat as I always do and…
By PENNY FLETCHER Now that the bike and walking path has been completed along a stretch of U.S. 301 from south of Big Bend Road into Brandon, HARTline has begun…
By LIA MARTIN SunTowers resident retired Army Air Corps Lt. Col. Paul Swofford, who was a B-24 bomber pilot in World War II, was unbelieving and joyful as he and…
By PENNY FLETCHER Somewhere a child with a medical condition or treatment that has caused hair loss will be getting a lift because of the gift of a six-year-old Ruskin…
By KEVIN BRADY “From want to being,” the title of his first one-man show, is something Ron Deel knows a little about. “There are a lot of people who want…
By KEVIN BRADY Bob Heilmann, a man synonymous with Riverview High School since its opening, is stepping down after 13 years in the principal’s chair. Danielle Shotwell, the current principal…
By KEVIN BRADY “There are three kinds of lies: lies, (darn) lies, and statistics,” according to 19th-century English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in a quote popularized in the U.S. by…
Mark William Rybak Mark William Rybak, age 29, passed away on Monday, July 28, 2014, at his home in Apollo Beach, Fla. He was born October 10, 1984, in West…