A partnership between volunteers from Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful and the Sun City Center/Ruskin Home Depot spruced up Bethune Park on Dec. 12. ...more

December 30, 2009

Thursday NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. or 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Brandon Crossroads Bowl, 609 Crater Lane, Tampa. The ninth annual pre-New Year's Eve Celebration event includes two hours of bowling, music, special cosmic lights and fog, free pizza, soda and shoe rental. Admission is $7.95 plus tax per person from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.; and $8.95 per person plus tax from 7 to 9 p.m. For students or members of St. Stephen Catholic School and/or parish, $2 will be donated back to the school for religious education. Call (813) 621-2363 or (813) 689-4900. ...more

December 30, 2009

Thirteen students, ages 8 to 12, from the Wimauma Academy Charter School and 12 Cuban refugee children, ages 6 to 14, sponsored by La Casa Cuba de Tampa, recently created three-dimensional renderings of houses that will appear in Our Village of Hopes and Dreams. ...more

December 30, 2009

Like most people, Grace Eickelman of Sun City Center makes a New Year's resolution each year. ...more

December 30, 2009

Anita Farney of Sun City Center placed her English scones next to a spread of mincemeat pies, a liquored Christmas cake and the kind of "savories" she remembers her grandmother served her as a child. ...more

December 30, 2009

More than 100 people turned out for the third annual Chanukah Wonderland on Dec. 13 at Westfield Brandon mall in the courtyard outside The Cheesecake Factory. The Hanukkah celebration was sponsored by Chabad of Brandon, a Jewish community organization that serves families in Brandon, Plant City and Sun City Center. ...more

December 30, 2009

In November, we ran Jackie Kunzmann's request for names of places to purchase eastern European/Slovakian holiday pastries, including nut rolls. ...more

December 27, 2009

Wearing a hat to cover a bald spot caused by getting too close to a hot Christmas light 10 years ago, Bill and Sally Louis' teddy bear sat in the back of their elaborately decorated golf cart. ...more

December 23, 2009

The Riverview Detachment of the Marine Corps League has been acting a lot like Santa recently. ...more

December 23, 2009

Wearing a hat to cover a bald spot caused by getting too close to a hot Christmas light 10 years ago, Bill and Sally Louis' teddy bear sat in the back of their elaborately decorated golf cart. ...more

December 23, 2009