Saturday, April 20, 2013
The event concludes National Library Week in Hillsborough County.
Read a good book lately? You might want to check out these novels by award-winning author Lori Roy. National Library Week concludes tomorrow, April 20, with an opportunity to meet and greet Roy, the 2012 Edgar Allen Poe’s Best First Novel award recipient. Born and raised in Kansas, Roy graduated from Kansas State University and now lives in west-central Florida. Her debut novel, Bent Road, not only won the Edgar Allen Poe award but was named a 2011 New York Times Notable Crime Book and was nominated for the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award. It has been optioned for a film by Cross Creek. Her second novel, Until She Comes Home, will be published in June. She will visit the Riverview Branch Library, 10509 Riverview Dr., Riverview, …
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Patrons are encouraged to use the Bloomingdale Regional Library or the 78th Street Community Library.
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- D'Ann White
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
If you're thinking about booking it to the Riverview Branch Library, you'd better hurry. The Riverview Branch Library, 10509 Riverview Dr., Riverview, will be closed for some general repair and maintenance on Thursday, Dec. 13 and Friday, Dec. 14. For those two days, the library system is encouraging patrons of that library to instead use: For other locations and their hours, library patrons should call 813-273-3652, or check out the library locations online at hcplc.org.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Procrastinators might want to rush to the nearest Early Voting site today.
More than 138,200 voters have cast Early Voting ballots in Hillsborough County for the General Election. If you're not one of them, you can still rush to the nearest voting site today, the final day of early voting. Voting will take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3. Fifteen sites throughout Hillsborough County have been accepting early votes since Oct. 27. Among the busier sites is the Bloomingdale Regional Library, 1906 Bloomingdale Ave., Valrico, where voters have faced lines meandering outside the library and down the sidewalk. As of Thursday, 8,549 voters had cast their ballots at the Bloomingdale library. If you want to avoid the crowds in Bloomingdale, elections officials suggest heading to the Riverview Branch Library, …
Friday, September 14, 2012
Reptile expert Gino Sassani will visit the Riverview Branch Library Oct. 1 to present his family of reptiles and other cool creatures.
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- D'Ann White
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Reptile breeder Gino Sassani of Lost World Reptiles in Tampa will be on hand with some scaly friends on Oct. 1 from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Riverview Branch Library, 10509 Riverview Dr. Riverview. Sassani has been collecting reptiles since he was a young boy in Reading, Pa. "In the early '80s I 'accidentally' bred a pair of snakes that I thought weren't even supposed to breed. (One was a female yellow rat and the other was a corn snake I thought was also a female)," said Sassani. "Incubating the eggs and finally seeing them hatch sparked a hobby that soon got out of control. I've been breeding snakes ever since." Lost World Reptiles specializes in many forms of corn snakes, California kingsnakes and Florida kingsnakes. Sassani, who works with …
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
From a drum circle to a tricky dog show, there are plenty of free activities available at the Bloomingdale Regional and Riverview Branch libraries.
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- D'Ann White
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
If you're looking for free fun this summer, look no further than the local library. Both the Bloomingdale Regional Library, 1906 Bloomingdale Ave., Valrico, and the Riverview Branch Library, 10509 Riverview Dr., Riverview, have a full lineup of events and programs geared to children and teens. "We've got an exciting lineup of activities for the kids, thanks to our Friends of the Library, which funds these programs," said Kim Eversole, children's librarian at Bloomingdale. "They're a really wonderful group of volunteers and, it's because of them that we can do these things for free." Upcoming programs at the Bloomingdale Regional Library include: Moonlight Magic — Tuesday, June 12 at 2 p.m. — Children will explore the moon, stars and …
Beth Norquist
10:04 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Thank you, President Obama for your many achievements, despite strong Republican obstructions: + Led the killing of Osama Bin Laden. + Improved US relationships with most allies. + Directed killing of several leaders of Al Qaida. + Implemented harsh sanctions on Iran. + Brought together coalition to remove dictator Gaddhafi from power in Libya. + Implemented Obamacare to provide healthcare for … more ›