District hoop playoffs start next week Champs, runner-ups advance to regionals By STEVE JACKSON South Shore high school boys basketball begins lose-1-and-go-home district playoffs next week on Feb. 9. Semi-finals…
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Smooth operation The Sun City Center Community Association, Florida Health Department and Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office partnered last week to ensure 4,200 association members received their first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations.…
Middle school students get candid about COVID-19 By LINDA CHION KENNEY The eighth annual Middle School Student Forum, hosted by Hillsborough County school board members, addressed the realities of the…
Ruskin Warriors eye deep playoff run District opens at RCS gym Feb. 9 after super regular season By STEVE JACKSON Ruskin Christian School winds up a super-successful boys varsity basketball…
Robert H. Champagne Sr. 11/1929 -1/17/2021 Robert (Bob) H. Champagne, Sr., 91, of Milford, N.H., passed peacefully in the care of the Community Hospice House, Merrimack, N.H., from natural age-related…
CHAMBER NEWS & VIEWS Balance During these turbulent times, there is so much to worry about…to contemplate….to try to fix. So, just exactly where do you start? It reminds me…
South Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce to host virtual scavenger hunt, all invited By LOIS KINDLE Mostly everyone loves a scavenger hunt, and the South Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce has come…
Apply now for Dr. Earl J. Lennard Scholarship By LINDA CHION KENNEY Applications are being accepted for the second year of a scholarship program named in posthumous memory of Dr.…
Poets invited to share messages of hope, inspiration in contest for cash By LOIS KINDLE In the spirit of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” the Firehouse Cultural…
From ‘Terrific Kid’ to Kiwanian, Riverview grad lives to serve By LINDA CHION KENNEY From Terrific Kid to charter president of the Key Club at Riverview High School and beyond,…