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Continue ReadingFAITH MATTERS: To what do you cling in times of trouble?
Listen to these awesome words St. Paul records for us in Romans 8: “What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword … nothing in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in […]
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Continue ReadingBodies of missing boaters pulled from Lake Tarpon
Editor’s note: This story first appeared on TampaBay.com. TARPON SPRINGS — Late Wednesday, search crews pulled the bodies of Willie Hightower and Willie Ragins from Lake Tarpon, where four days earlier the pair took off for a day trip in an aluminum fishing boat. Investigators haven’t yet said what killed either man, adding only that […]
Continue ReadingSearch continues for two Plant City boaters missing on Lake Tarpon
Editor’s note: A version of this story first appeared on TampaBay.com. A search for two close friends from Plant City who went missing Saturday night while fishing on Lake Tarpon continues today, authorities said. Willie Ragins, 43, and Willie Hightower, 64, spent Saturday afternoon fishing the lake in a 14-foot aluminum boat, according to the […]
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Editor’s note: Sydney Johnson is a senior at Plant City High School and enrolled in a journalism class through Florida Virtual School. Because of a rise in the number of homeless animals on the Tampa Bay Area streets, local shelters and non-profit organizations promote the use of an alternative solution to euthanasia, Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Release. In Hillsborough […]
Continue ReadingLETTER: Resident appreciates Glorioso’s leadership
Dear Editor: I am pleased that Rich Glorioso has asserted his leadership skills in broaching the subject of a community solution for Walden Lake’s withering golf facilities. I hope the community will keep an open mind and think constructively on how things might proceed. A committee of professional and thoughtful people would be a good […]
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Dear Editor: I read with dismay your article in the Dec. 12 Plant City Times & Observer regarding the Wawa gas station being erected on the land adjoining Starbucks on Thonotosassa Road. This is a very dangerous intersection. The cars exiting from eastbound Interstate 4 clearly have a “Yield” sign facing them. Yet, rarely does one […]
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