March 2017
Daylight saving time is here again By DANA DITTMAR This is the one week out of the year I hate the most. The week we switch over to daylight saving…
The price of membership By WILLIAM HODGES hodgespress@gmail.com In the political arena, many of the debates revolve around taxes, and many of us in our private discussions complain about taxes…
Penny Fletcher retires from newspaper writing The name Penny Fletcher will be greatly missed from the pages of this newspaper. Fletcher has been covering local news in the South Shore…
Dooley Groves family looks to farm area for 7 generations By PENNY FLETCHER penny@observernews.net Daniel W. Houghtaling trekked from Michigan all the way to south Hillsborough County sometime in the…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Kiss me! I’m Irish! Maybe… By MITCH TRAPHAGEN mitch@observernews.net What does it mean to be anything in America today? Who are you? Do you define yourself…
Area residents invited to count every drop By LOIS KINDLE lois@observernews.net Local meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Ruskin and others across Florida are in a “heated” contest with…
Dorothy Hering Dorothy “Dottie” Hering, loving wife, mother, aunt, oma and ur oma, of Sun City Center, Fla., was called to her eternal home on March 3, 2017. Dottie was…
Parrish Chili Cook-off and Heritage Day Festival Thousands of visitors flooded the grounds of the Florida Railroad Museum on March 4 to celebrate the rich heritage of Parrish. The Parrish…
Palmetto High School student receives $250,000 scholarship to Duke University By CARL MARIO NUDI carl@observernews.net Palmetto High School senior Jacqueline Perez always knew she would attend some kind of institute…