The shortage of medical masks and supplies and the stark reality of the global COVID-19 pandemic is being felt right here at the Brandon Medical Center, now known as Community Health Brandon.

Food shelves used to serve only our most vulnerable, but the definition of vulnerable has changed, practically overnight.

By LEE J. KAHRS BRANDON – What if you opened a distillery/restaurant and a global pandemic hit just as your federal liquor license was about to be issued to start making moonshine? In the case of Ripton Mountain Distillery, you start making hand sanitizer. Rick Carroll and Bernard Quesnel opened Ripton Mountain Distillery on New […]

In this, the “new normal” of the COVID-19 pandemic, familiar sights and routines start to mean more. An instant nostalgia, if you will. Even at the dump.