Valrico News

On Monday, May 6, the Eastern Hillsborough Art Guild, known as EHAG, held it's Annual May Banquet and Installation of Officers at the Plant City Women's Club located at 1110 N. Wheeler St.

Just five hours after an 18-year-old Bloomingdale East resident reported that she'd been attacked while jogging on Natures Way, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced it had made an arrest.

Locals call it the Nature's Way loop. It's a popular stretch of sidewalk for biking, running, and walking, because you don't have to cross any major roadways.

May is National Pet Month. In an effort to celebrate the impact that pets have on our lives, Bryant Martinez, the Winthrop Town Artist, has gathered artists together who will create art that demonstrates the impact that their adopted pet or pets has had on their lives.

Family Firearms is a local business owned and operated by Marco and Jessica Caporale in Valrico, offering firearm inventory and courses, gun range membership, and a friendly atmosphere for customers to buy, sell and learn.

Within hours of demolishing the home where Jeff Bush died, those home were condemned.

Hillsborough County Commissioner Al Higginbotham said in an interview May 21 that he plans to meet with Bloomingdale residents concerned and opposed to big-box retail and apartment development on Bloomingdale Avenue because "they need somebody to come and listen." If concerned residents attend the June 10 meeting hoping to learn "how to kill the ... (more)

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Cancer survivors and their families are invited to get fit during a free 12-week program at all Tampa YMCA branches including the Campo Family YMCA, 3414 Culbreath Rd., Valrico.

Student volunteers from East Bay High School's Student Government Association are making last-minute preparations to host the second annual 5K4Q Run at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 18 at E.G. Simmons Park, 2401 19 th Ave.

Not good enough, said "Say No to Bloomingdale Big Box" supporters at the Fred B. Karl County Center on May 15, minutes after the Hillsborough County Commissioners voted unanimously to ensure that money is earmarked for traffic improvements made necessary by the proposed mega-development on Bloomingdale Avenue.

Jewish residents are invited to join Chabad of Brandon for a Shavuos celebration at Chabad Jewish Centero f Brandon, 3005 Waylon Ln., Valrico, Wednesday, May 15 at 6 p.m. The celebration commemorates the 3,326th anniversary of the acceptance of the Torah at Mount Sinai.

The food writer for the Tampa Tribune is a local Valrico resident, and he appears to be a supporter of area businesses when they bring something good and new to our area.

Residents opposed to big-box retail development and apartments next to the Bloomingdale Regional Library are asked to voice their concerns at a community meeting May 14 at the The Palms Community Church .

Actors are in costume for the final days of rehearsals for the upcoming Village Players production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs .

Today, May 11, is a great day to feature when you extol the virtues of living in a town focused on social responsibility, charitable concerns and community connections.

The Bloomingdale community is invited this weekend to help support a young father and his family get through a second bout with cancer, starting with a student-faculty basektball game at Bloomingdale High School tonight, May 10, followed by a host of activites at the Beef 'O' Brady's on Bell Shoals Road in Valrico.

Concert to benefit Calvary Lutheran: Ellen Kleinschmidt delivers Miss What's Her Name , a Broadway-style benefit concert, on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in Calvary Lutheran Church, 5309 U.S. 41 N. Miss What's Her Name chronicles Kleinschmidt's journey via some of Broadway's most powerful hits.

This 10,000-square-foot building at 7608 Causeway Blvd. in Clair-Mel will be the first of Tampa Family Health Centers' 11 sites in Hillsborough to be situated in the eastern part of the county.

Deb Adams may work at BMO Harris Bank in Apollo Beach but she is so active in her community many associate her with organizations and projects not connected to her job.