Local Veterinarian Donates $10,000 To Rotary’s Camp Florida
Kimberly Tyson, DVM, a lifelong Brandon resident, veterinarian and devoted community leader, has donated $10,000 to Rotary's Camp Florida, a nonprofit camp serving children...
Operation Lotus Is Collecting Donations For Local Foster Home
This holiday season, Operation Lotus wants to bring an entire foster home a magical Christmas.
Operation Lotus, which was founded nine years ago...
Local Veteran Installed As President Of American Gold Star Mothers
Annette Kirk, an Army veteran and Valrico resident, is the 2025-26 national president of American Gold Star Mothers. American Gold Star Mothers is a...
‘Butterfly Effect’ Project Empowers Youth To Stand Against Hate
Gabbie Noyes, an 11th grade Girl Scout from Troop 33101 (Lourdes M. Reyes, troop leader) and a student at Riverview High School, has taken on one of...
Local Baby Boomer Reinvents Himself Through AI Training, Publishes Three Humor...
After seven years and more than 7,000 job applications without a single offer, SouthShore resident Scott Louis Thomas decided it was time to rewrite...
Beth Israel Marks 50 Years With January Gala Celebration
Beth Israel, The Jewish Congregation of Sun City Center, is preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a festive community gala on January 31,...
Crime Stoppers Turns Anonymous Tips Into Arrests
By Denise Sansosti
This year alone, citizens’ tips into Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay have resulted in 81 arrests, 112 cases cleared and 303...
‘The Cardfather’ Brings Tampa’s Largest Sports Collectors Expo
For more than three decades, longtime Tampa Bay collector and showrunner Chester Smigiel has been known by a nickname that fits him almost too...
A Place At The Table For Everyone
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that...
Grace Notes: V Is For Victory
My Christmas celebration took a strange and unexpected twist last year. A bit of background first: I’d been diligently working on a new devotional...