This Week
By LOIS KINDLE Few people, if any, in the South Shore community had greater impact on Veterans than Bill Hodges. When he passed away at …
Columns
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PUBLISHED JULY 14, 2016 By MITCH TRAPHAGEN mitch@observernews.net Perhaps there simply are no answers. Or, perhaps more likely, the answers are multi-generational in that we could only begin today, but …
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PUBLISHED JUNE 16, 2016 Observations: Living in three-quarter time By MITCH TRAPHAGEN mitch@observernews.net In late 2001, I was a brand-new reporter for The Observer News. My first article, a photo …
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PUBLISHED JUNE 16, 2016 An unusually gray day By LISA STARK lisa@observernews.net It was an unusually gray day, I thought, especially considering the perpetually sunny skies I had grown accustomed …
Obituaries
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Rev. Riley Allen Jr. Rev. Riley Allen Jr., 81, of Sun City Center, died Wednesday, February 17, 2016. He is survived by daughter Vickie and granddaughter Katelyn. Robert George …
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Shirley Keen Bass To our mother: You carried us home for the first time in your arms, then carried us in your heart and in your thoughts. We were never …
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Donald Roy Johnson Donald Roy Johnson, 69, of Ruskin passed away February 1, 2016. He was born July 1, 1946 in Sarasota. He was preceded in death by his parents, …
Prep Sports
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High School Soccer resumes after Thanksgiving Lennard jumps out to 2-0 mark By STEPHEN JACKSON Boys soccer opened in early November for four South Shore high schools with Lennard posting …
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Hillsborough nips Lennard 22-13 2-8 Longhorns eye next season with returnees By Steve Jackson RUSKIN — Coach Matt Kitchie’s Lennard Longhorns took the short opening kickoff with good field position …
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Sharks end season with loss to the other Riverview 45-12 By Steve Jackson SARASOTA — One Riverview football team is packing its helmets, jerseys and pads in mothballs. Another Riverview “11” …
