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By KEVIN BRADY A team of mostly freshmen and sophomores making it to the high school football playoffs? Suggest that at the start of football season, and you might get…
Despite constant growth and many changes over the past 26 years, the Ruskin Seafood Festival, South Hillsborough’s largest event, has managed to keep its community focus. By MITCH TRAPHAGEN Mother…
The lionfish, a native species of the Pacific and Indian oceans, has been inching its way toward Tampa Bay for the past three decades. This unwelcome visitor has been spotted…
To paraphrase actor John Candy’s immortal words from the 1983 movie National Lampoon’s Vacation, “Park’s closed! Manatee outside should’ve told you!” But not for long. On Saturday, Nov. 1, the…
High-school Football: East Bay, Lennard still eye playoffs; Riverview runs into Bloomingdale buzzsaw
By KEVIN BRADY East Bay took a well-deserved 21-7 win against Strawberry Crest, a victory for a team whose record belies a strong squad whose 4-4 record doesn’t show they…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN In the waning moments of December 31, 1999, Michelle and I tiptoed out of the New Year’s Eve church service on Stanley Cay in the Bahamas; it…
By KEVIN BRADY A free conference on disabilities that promised everything “from Soup to Nuts” was such a hit that it will become a yearly event. The conference, hosted by…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN You have spent roughly one third of your life asleep. Medical science doesn’t even have a full explanation for why we sleep. But we do to the…
By PENNY FLETCHER People from 2 to 94 come from all over Florida and other states for a weekend of fun away from their lives filled with treatments, drugs and…