December 2015
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN In a different lifetime, I worked as a programmer for a large retail company. One particular project, with about 10 people on the team, was a big…
By KEVIN BRADY Even the heart of the Grinch himself might have swelled a size or two last weekend at Winthrop Town Centre when the lights flicked on at the…
By JASON BARTH Lesotho is a country in Southern Africa that is completely surrounded by South Africa. With the extreme poverty and high rates of HIV, the country sees very…
Santa made an early appearance in South Hillsborough this past weekend, and his schedule, as usual, was a busy one. Dozens of people turned out at the Firehouse Cultural Center…
By KEVIN BRADY The United States is a land divided among Japan and Nazi Germany in Philip K. Dick’s novel, The Man in the High Castle, a nation of nuclear…
December 5 and 6, RedHawk Ranch in Wimauma hosted the first Native American Arts and Cultural Festival ever held in South Hillsborough County. The 18 acres that comprise the ranch,…
By PENNY FLETCHER If all goes according to plan, several new learning experiences will be available in Apollo Beach next spring. In 1986, Tampa Electric Company opened the Manatee Viewing…
By LISA STARK Ask anyone who has visited a nursing home or assisted living facility and they will often say the patient rooms can be somewhat drab and colorless. Sabina…
By LISA STARK It was around 11 a.m. at the Ruskin VFW post and then-bar manager John MacDonald had just completed his opening procedures when the door buzzer rang. He…