Hurricane Irma Tests Community Resilience As First Major Storm To Hit...
By Tamas Mondovics
It has been 12 years since Hurricane Wilma, the last major storm to make landfall in the state of Florida and the...
Local Organization Helps Cancer Patients Find Strength And Courage
It is often said that courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you have not strength. Ruth...
Sign Waver Continues To Care
By Amanda Boston
Riverview resident, Diane Williams, is often referred to as the Jesus Cares Lady. She believes God called her to deliver a...
Grace Notes: Stinky Face
By Deborah Coty
Our conversation as my preschool grandbuddy Blaine watched me applying make-up:
Blaine: What's that stuff do, Mimi?
Me: It's blush; it gives me...
Brandyn’s Angels Helps Mom Serve Homeless In Son’s Name After Loss
Valrico resident Kimberly Wood is turning the loss of her son into a mission to help others. Wood recently started Brandyn’s Angels, a group...
Grace Notes—Tool For Peace: Kindness
They all get along; why can't we?
As confrontations roar these days between people of opposing political opinions, torqued neighbors who make it feel like...
Riverview Resident And Purple Heart Recipient Celebrates 75th Birthday
Gordon Beadle, a resident of Riverview, is celebrating his 75th birthday this month. When he was a young Marine fighting in Vietnam in 1965,...
Grace Notes: Christmas In Modern-Day Bethlehem
By Debora Coty
My vision of an ideal Christmas is a holy day, full of wonder, sparkling with heavenly light, topped by a velvety silent...
12U Wolves Finish Their Season In The Championship Game At Dreams...
Story by Tamas Mondovics
Cooperstown Dreams Park was started in 1996 by Lou Presutti. About 17,000 players from across the country and Canada with up...
Newsome Junior Brings Music To The Bridges Residents For Gold Project
By Janet Noah
Newsome High School Junior, Kristin Reagin, goes for the gold with her recent project, ‘Medicine for the Soul.’ Open only to girls...