Students in Eastern Hillsborough County schools were set to pay homage to lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and to pay tribute to patriotism with red, white, blue and yellow clothes and ribbons and with special ceremonies and memorials.
On Patriot Day Americans remember and pay homage to the tragic events of September 11, 2011, a day that forced us all to reassess even the most basic beliefs of life itself. Here, in the words of a child, a parent takes stock of the 9/11 terrorist attac
Patriot Day is an annual observance on September 11 to remember those who were injured or died during the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. Many Americans refer Patriot Day as 9/11 or September 11.
Music Showcase in Brandon seeks nominations in September of local women undergoing breast cancer treatment. Businesses that can donate services are sought as well. October fundraisers will benefit the selected patient from a Sept. 30 drawing.
Brandon photographer and Navy veteran Kitt Amaritnant shares photographs he took following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City in 2001. They are reposted here on the eve of Patriot Day 2012.
The Lee Roy Selmon's restaurant in Brandon opens 11 a.m. Sept. 9, in time for the regular-season opener of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for which Selmon was the first-ever draft pick. Sept. 9 marks too the one-year anniversary of Selmon's memoria
The Dash & Splash family fun day and adult and kid swimming races is scheduled to kick off 7:30 a.m. at the Brandon Sports & Aquatic Center in Brandon.
Watercolorist Sue Allen will demonstrate the wet-in-wet technique at the September monthly meeting of the Brandon League of Fine Arts at the Center Place Fine Arts & Civic Association on Vonderburg Drive.
The September Super Slam fishing tournament hosted by the O'Brien's Irish Pub and Family Restaurant Fishing Club is set for mid-month, with redfish, snook and trout the main targets. Here's five things to keep in mind as summer fishing en
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office on Sept. 8 issued a plea for help in finding Joshua Cook, 18, of Seffner, who is reported to have developmental learning issues. He was reportedly last seen at a truck stop in Seffner on Sept. 7.
The Armwood Hawks bowed to the American Heritage Stallions in a game Coach Sean Callahan told his team was a "perfect" contest to have this early in the season. The aim now is to "get bigger" and to "get stronger," he said.
Photographs capture life in the stands and on the field at the Lyle Flagg Field in Armwood on Sept. 7, where the Hawks battled the American Heritage Stallions. The team from Plantation went home with the win.
The Brandon Regional Hospital Emergency Center at Plant City is scheduled to open in September on James L. Redman Parkway. An open house is set for Sept. 22.
Around 2:30 p.m., a Hillsborough County School District school bus was seen parked in the median at 11340 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., across the street from Broad Street. The bus was en route from Mango Elementary School.
Thieves struck on the home turf of the Brandon Lions Football and Cheerleading organization at E.L. Bing Park in Seffner. Helmets and shoulder pads were reportedly stolen. The theft follows vandalism at the park earlier this summer.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is on the lookout for two men who brandished guns at a Mobil gas station and convenience store on State Road 60 in Valrico. A 28-year-old clerk was treated there for a head wound. The robbers wore masks.
Game time Sept. 7 is 7:30 p.m. for the Armwood Hawks and the American Heritage (Plantation) Stallions at the Lyle Flagg Field in Seffner. The game between former state football champions is being billed as a game of the week. Brandon has a bye.
Signs have been posted throughout the Hillsborough Community College system alerting students, employees, visitors and vendors that there will be no smoking, no use of tobacco products anywhere, indoors or out, starting Jan. 1, 2013.
Forget the polls, count the balls. Ace Golf range patrons are driving shots at larger-than-life head shots of presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The question is: Are they shooting "for" a candidate, or "at" a candi
The Village Players community theater troupe has scheduled auditions for this year's production of "Miracle on 34th Street." The show is set to open Nov. 30 at the James McCabe Theater in Valrico.
