BRANDON
Sophia Vazquez turned 3 weeks old on Thursday.
RIVERVIEW — Earl Lennard told the audience at Tuesday's monthly meeting of the Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce that when he stepped in as interim executive director he received a call of support from longtime resident Dick Stowers.
HYDE PARK — A Craftsman bungalow. A Sears, Roebuck & Co. mail-order design. A Colonial Revival. Six architectural gems in all will be open to visitors of the annual Old Hyde Park Home Tour along the 700 and 800 blocks of S Orleans Avenue on Sunday.
What's Hot: Fishing in the winter has good days and bad days, but it's still one of the best times of year to fish in the Tampa Bay area. Even though cold fronts are moving in every week, trout and redfish bites are heating up. All you need is a bag of your favorite soft plastics and some jig heads or some live …
APOLLO BEACH
6211 Marbella Bv., to Charles Lowry Page by Roy L. Hunt, $620,000, 10-07-2014.
After wading through a mile-long line of traffic and conducting a parking space search that resembles the quest for the Holy Grail, we will wait for the tram for 20 minutes and then realize we're not at Disney, we didn't park in Ursula 98 — we're just at the mall.
DOVER — The population of this East Hillsborough community swells every holiday season as visitors from all around flock to two holiday light events: Christmas Lane and Nights of Shimmering Lights.
TAMPA — Shaylia McRae, 37, runs the Hillsborough County School District's new success teams initiative, in which counselors, teachers and people formerly known as dropout prevention specialists (now success coaches) collaborate with 100 at-risk students in 52 middle and high schools. Recently she …
TEMPLE TERRACE
She was 12 days old when her father was kidnapped by the Taliban. It was 1996 and they were living in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was on his way home from work to his wife and four children, the oldest just 5.
For the Rev. Roger Scholtz, interim pastor at Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa, the meaning of the holidays stretches beyond live nativities and sparkling lights.
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