Valrico resident Frank Strom, manager for Hillsborough County Veterans Affairs and a retired Marine, and his 6-year-old son, Joshua, a kindergartner at Cimino Elementary School in Valrico, planted flags representing fallen servicemen and women at the Jan. 10 Field of Honor Ceremony hosted by the Vietnam Veterans of America at the Veterans Memorial Museum and Park. ...more

February 4, 2009

The Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsored an annual drill meet for about 400 Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets from 24 schools Dec. 13 at Brandon High School. Bloomingdale High School cadets were the overall winners. ...more

January 21, 2009

Brandon native Suzy Davis has watched the community grow up around her for more than 40 years. ...more

December 31, 2008

For the past 18 years the Brandon Lions Club has hosted a Christmas party for foster children referred by Melvin "Mac" MacNeel, executive director of Foster Angels of Hillsborough County. This year almost 30 children attended the Dec. 11 gathering at the Brandon Lions Clubhouse. ...more

December 24, 2008

A reported gang member with a history of violence has been arrested for Thursday's severe beating of a former high school and college basketball player. ...more

December 20, 2008

Pedro Peguero, 20, of Riverview, surrendered to detectives around 4 p.m. today. He was charged with aggravated battery with great bodily harm for the injuries to Sredrick Trevor Powe outside the Green Iguana bar and booked into Orient Road Jail without bail. ...more

December 19, 2008

PLANT CITY About 60 friends and family members gathered earlier this month to welcome home Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Knight, who spent eight months in Iraq. ...more

December 19, 2008

The annual Stars and Candlelight concert performed by the Brandon High School choral department, directed by Marilyn Rose Nicholson, will take place at 7 p.m. Friday in the school theater, 1101 Victoria Street. ...more

December 10, 2008

At the annual flag-raising and Veterans' Recognition Ceremony on Nov. 10 at Brandon High School, cadets in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps honored their relatives and Brandon dignitaries who have served the country in war. ...more

December 3, 2008

The Brandon Elks awarded trophies and treated the winners of the local Elks Hoop Shoot Competition to a spaghetti dinner at the lodge Nov. 12. ...more

November 26, 2008