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I went through all of the motions, had even shopped for gifts, and still did not really appreciate that it was truly Christmas. It took a party at a nursing…
By Lou Joyce I could have been that dead mother of the shooter. Circumstances were similar for our family. During the horrible unfolding of the story in Connecticut, I was…
By MELODY JAMESON GIBSONTON — Sweet and salty aromas of cotton candy and roasting peanuts accented with the pungent fragrance of fresh wood shavings, shapely young aerialists floating without apparent…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN It would be impossible to say how many lives have been saved or injuries prevented thanks to 14-year-old Diego Duran, his mother Sandy, and his family. There…
By PENNY FLETCHER RUSKIN — When Rolando Barrientos first started teaching young boys to box, it was to give them something constructive to do that would keep them off the…
By PENNY FLETCHER SUN CITY CENTER — When the Sun City Center InterFaith Social Action Council started up in 1971, its founders dreamed of helping the surrounding communities in many…
By MELODY JAMESON GIBSONTON — Sweet and salty aromas of cotton candy and roasting peanuts accented with the pungent fragrance of fresh wood shavings, shapely young aerialists floating without apparent…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN As the nation and the entire world absorbs the shock of last week’s senseless shooting of 20 young children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School…
By PENNY FLETCHER RUSKIN — If you’ve gone to school in south Hillsborough County or had children or even grandchildren in school here in the last 35 years, you’ve probably…