Brandon Area Press Releases

Brandon Area Press Releases

Renaissance Festival Unveiled The Bay area Renaissance Festival at MOSI, located at 11315 N. 46th St. in Tampa, will run through Sunday, April 5, everyday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., except Friday, March 13, which runs from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Daily admission rates at the gate are $16.95 for adults, children ages 5-12 are $8.95, senior [...]

Eye On Business Riverview/Apollo Beach/Ruskin

Eye On Business Riverview/Apollo Beach/Ruskin

Norgard Insurance Holds Ribbon Cutting In early March, Norgard Insurance Group, located at 809 E. Bloomingdale Ave. # 387, hosted a Ribbon Cutting at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce. Norgard Insurance Group offers its clients a variety of benefits the not limited to medical benefits for a group or individual, pre-paid legal, supplemental benefits, life [...]

Rock N Pineapple Gets Big Votes In Shop Local

Rock N Pineapple Gets Big Votes In Shop Local

Since the day it opened, Rock N Pineapple in Plaza Bella on the corner of Bloomingdale and Bell Shoals, has embraced the Shop Local campaign. Servers make sure to give every diner at the new restaurant a Shop Local postcard and to ask them to go online and vote for them as the best restaurant. [...]

Comments on Brandon Community Plan Welcome

Comments on Brandon Community Plan Welcome

The public is invited to attend an open house on Thursday, March 26 to view the proposed Brandon Community Plan.  The meeting is open, and the public is invited to drop by anytime between 5:30 and 7 p.m. at the Brandon Regional Service Center at 311 Pauls Dr. in Brandon. Since August of 2007, community [...]

Morningstar Named Ambassador Of The Year

Morningstar Named Ambassador Of The Year

Local Brandon resident and owner of local electric company, Morningstar Electric, Tammy Morningstar has been selected as the Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce’s Ambassador of the Year. Morningstar is co-owner of Morningstar Electric, located at 506 Shamrock Rd. in Brandon, with her husband, Ken. “I was completely surprised when I was announced as the winner [...]

David Osmond Visits Brandon

David Osmond Visits Brandon

On Sunday, March 15, 2009 David Osmond (son of Alan Osmond and nephew to Donny & Marie Osmond) spoke to a

Brandon Chamber Selects John Sullivan As New President

  By Kathy L. Collins The Brandon Chamber of Commerce has selected a new and enthusiastic president in John Sullivan, a local attorney and land developer. He is a veteran board member having served on the chamber board for four years. His term runs from February 1 to January 31, 2110.

Support Cancer Research: Walk

Keep on walking: That is the mantra participants of the upcoming 13th Annual American Cancer Society (ACS) Relay for Life will be silently thinking as they continuously strut around Brandon High School’s track one day into the next, bringing honor and remembrance to a brother, sister, mother, father, friend or colleague battling or lost to [...]

Brandon Regional Unveils New Cancer Treatment With CyberKnife

  By Kathy L. Collins Brandon Regional Hospital held a ribbon cutting ceremony in early March and unveiled its newest weapon in the fight against cancer, CyberKnife.

Area Church Gets Involved in “Souper Bowl”

Area Church Gets Involved in “Souper Bowl”

BY: KATHY L. COLLINS   During the Super Bowl, excesses and wealth are on display. But for some, Super Bowl Sunday is