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You can review our Community Guidelines by clicking here If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it here Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Community Guidelines | FCC Applications | Jobs/Internships | Do Not Sell My Personal Information 2025 at 2:04 PM EDTEmail This LinkShare on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInTAMPA (WWSB) - The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a person they say scammed an elderly Sun City Center man out of more than $800,000 the 92-year-old victim was targeted in a bank and romance scam He transferred thousands of dollars to a bank account where it was siphoned off to multiple individuals through various means ATM withdrawals and point-of-sale transactions The sheriff’s office says on March 10 of this year was caught on camera at a Publix in Orlando using the victim’s Wells Fargo card to make a purchase five counterfeit checks totaling $14,300 were made payable to Swinton Jr Various other charges were made using the victim’s card Swinton had previously been in Florida State Prison for fraud Detectives determined Swinton had someone else withdrawing money from the victim’s Wells Fargo account while he was in prison Detectives arrested Swinton April 30 in Orlando He has been charged with fraudulent use of personal information of an elderly person fraudulent use of personal information over $5,000 or 10 but less than 20 victims and fraudulent use of credit card over $100 and five counts of uttering a forged instrument In Tove Jansson’s newly reissued novel set in a Florida retirement home •   •   • in literature; a place where palm trees row up in artificially neat lines where busloads of tourists pause to visit the famed movie-boat from Mutiny on the Bounty than anywhere else in the country.” The cast: aged women and the occasional man (since most of them are dead by now) at the late stage of life also underrepresented residing at the Berkeley Arms retirement home on Second Avenue They live together not by choice but by uneasy spending their days in the rocking chairs that are never moved from the veranda a brisk and surprising novel by Finnish artist (It was originally published in Swedish in 1974; faithful Jansson translator Thomas Teal’s lucid English version of 1976 is now being reissued by New York Review Books.) If Jansson was mostly preoccupied with the wild elements of the natural world both in her globally beloved Moomin comics and in the adult fiction she wrote in her last three decades devised in particular US American fashion to sequester the elderly away from “productive” society in a preternaturally sunny silo where they won’t “be in the way.” The narrative flits quickly and seamlessly between perspectives from an observational third-person to a confessional first We get glimpses into the minds of the seventy-seven-year-old Mrs after so many years of composing scores for films is now afraid of music and increasingly retreating from speech; the kindly on the cusp of seventy-eight; the obscene and cutting matriarch Mrs aged eighty; the cringingly compassionate Miss Peabody They are tended to by the lizardish Miss Frey past midlife already at age sixty-five but not yet old in the way of her charges who function like mirrors revealing her near future the home’s unusually beautiful Mexican housekeeper her Jesus-crazed lover and the ticket-taker at the Bounty movie-boat; both are foils to the others placing their faith in the illusion of an unbroken horizon of a future that seems long and deep and distant Everyone is mostly waiting—Joe for Jesus; Linda for a sublime erotic encounter; the rest It’s a lonely waiting punctuated by petty grievances lunches at the senior canteen and beers at the local bar the great spring dance and its parade of fancy hats Petersburg inhabitants and the arrival of new retirees Even those fatalities are barely plot points the characters simply dropping out of the story Death is the wildest and strangest thing that a human will ever experience but in this setting it is sanitized and protected from view now-inert bodies swiftly removed from the field of vision by emergency vehicles that discreetly glide through the streets without their sirens with such devotion to detail that the story teems with movement she demonstrates how the mind always continues its ceaseless roil perhaps in a way that’s even more interesting at the end than when one is still plowing through the beginning and middle of a life This is the attitude held by the home’s philosophical proprietor the eldest of all the characters: Miss Ruthermer-Berkeley who practices “entertaining new and irrational ideas” and insists on defending “the irrational surplus acquired in the course of a long life.” Jansson herself was about sixty when she penned Sun City Perhaps because she didn’t start writing adult fiction until her late fifties having witnessed the ageing and dying of her parents and with her own future rushing up before her she often pictured old age in her short stories and novels most famously in 1972’s The Summer Book a dreamy chronicle of an ancient grandmother and a six-year-old girl summering on a remote Finnish island In stark contrast to so many depictions of the aged in literature and film marred by flaws and colored in with fantasies and dreams still filled with the anxieties and preoccupations of their previous decades as well as with brand-new ones experimenting with different attitudes and ways of perceiving and being after suffering a destabilizing personal shock begins to imagine the garden outside his window is a jungle His trees were frightening in their immensity and rose out of perpetual dusk toward an inaccessible roof of orchids Higgins now finds “the world much prettier than it was,” for “thanks to her poor eyes colors always flowed out over their borders and mixed with the light very luminously Where the young Hannah had seen what she was used to seeing the old Hannah saw reality freed from habit and unnecessary detail.” They are all still becoming As this concise novel nears its conclusion Petersburg’s diametric opposite: the feral Eden that is Silver Springs visited by Linda and Joe on his Honda motorcycle which can reach speeds of 120 miles an hour and by select residents of the Berkeley Arms in the glass-bottom boats that ferry tourists out for short rides on the pure waters of the site’s fabled river; in Bambi’s Playground the cramped petting zoo aimed at children and old folks alike But even these feeble infrastructures cannot impose order and control on the wilderness that surrounds them to trespass one remaining corner of “a pretty little part of America’s untouched youth.” Hallucinations abound in this “beauty of emptiness and extinction”; a nude Linda and Joe surreally float through the swampy waters like Adam and Eve; an arrow arcs magnificently through the sky like a portent It is unclear exactly what happens to them in this untamed place the native habitat of Jansson’s febrile imagination—the same way that life is unclear which is the magic of being alive in the first place Ania Szremski is the senior editor of 4Columns. A Sun City man who was being attacked by an alligator April 9 was defended by his wife who struck the gator with a tomato stake, eventually leading to the gator releasing her husband, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office. Police responded to Sun City around 10 a.m. after Marian Roeser reported her husband, Joseph, identified by law enforcement to be 77 years old, was attacked by an alligator while spreading mulch in the backyard with his back to the pond. According to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office police report, Marian said when she heard Joseph yell out, she grabbed a tomato stake and used it to poke the alligator in the eyes and struck it several times in the head in an attempt to get it to release her husband. The actions, the report said, were successful and the alligator let go of her husband. Marian then took him inside of the residence and called 911 for help. The report stated Joseph Roeser suffered numerous injuries which included lacerations to his leg as well as visible alligator bite marks along with an abrasion to his head where he had possibly fallen on to the sidewalk when he was attacked. He was transported to a hospital for treatment of what police said at the time of the incident had been non-life-threatening injuries. Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Lieutenant Daniel Alen said April 11 he did not have an update as to Roeser's status. The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene along with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. The alligator was located after the attack and due to the aggressive nature of the alligator, officials euthanized the animal, according to the report. The Bluffton Township Fire District, Beaufort County EMS and Sun City security and administration officials also responded to the scene. SCDNR Offers Important Information about Alligators The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources recently provided several questions and answers about alligator safety. The alligator mating season takes place in South Carolina, according to SCDNR, beginning as early as April and running through July. "Alligators are large predators and they should always be respected as such," SCDNR said. "Humans are not a natural prey source for alligators, but they can occasionally confuse people for other animals. As with any wild animal, do not approach or try to interact." We all know to "keep your distance" from an alligator, what do you think is a safe distance between a person and an alligator? Tove Jansson has been having a sort of “hot girl” moment: funny for whom The Summer Book (1972) is anti-“hot girl lit” canon Written after the death of her mother and as the Finnish artist and writer was approaching sixty about a grandmother and her young granddaughter on a skerry in the Gulf of Finland and yes (Scandi) island life—but it is really about death And it is really Grandmother’s book—not Sophia’s when we are suddenly in Grandmother’s body like never before and go outside (“Swing your legs over the edge.… Four steps to the door…”) Jansson’s second takes the less “hot” concerns of her first and puts them dead center: the sun city here is a retirement community in St and legal problems,” where it is “always summer.” Like its precursor In twenty-one chapters in the lives of the residents and workers at one Berkeley Arms—senior home “kindergarten,” “graveyard,” “jungle”—we get from opening to closing veranda scene: the “movie ship” and the hair salon; a napkin incident and a jello; a Scottish wanderer and a (surprise!) wife; the much-awaited Spring Ball and a trip to the “genuine” jungle at last big events and days-after: the anticipations As our amphibious narrator’s focalization shifts between the variously mouse-ish (Miss Peabody) and variously reserved or frazzled (Miss Frey) workers the question such narrative modes always beg—that of knowledge and its limits the limits of our ability to know one another—is rendered ostensibly futile by/in old age Not worth the effort—there’s not enough time left who “loved the Excursion Concept but had no organizational talent.… How is it possible that they’re all dead?” “Bad legs,” bad backs; the relief of “restful and secure” high tables or when grace is this: “Sometimes her headache would start a little later than expected”—these are the mind-bodies of Sun City as a sick person since nineteen (a reader and writer who stands with Grandmother and grandmothers worldwide!) Nowhere is this clearer than at the Spring Ball—where “MEMBERS DANCE AT THEIR OWN RISK,” a sign warns—but “a Spring Ball was a wonderful thing,” and a wonderful thing is a wonderful thing and muscular-stomached Rebecca Rubinstein: “magnificent,” indeed But eventually the body does drop: “… dead!”—on the dance floor “‘It’s the Mayor’ … ‘He never did like to dance …’” For all of Jansson’s jokes Here we get in full the depressed-elder representation The Summer Book offered in half: “wise” or “sage,” maybe; but what about sad and cross having lost the urge to tell of one’s life Rubinstein’s son and granddaughters—Libanonna and Shurele Rubinstein’s epic letters to “My dreadful son” Abrascha own their own chapters: “Sometimes I toy with the idea of writing you an amusing description of the old people awaiting their final departure on the sunlit veranda.… But I tell myself…that these weary souls can only have a purely fictional significance for you.”  Alas impossible to convince others of the inconceivable: that someday If not for the “old asses,” then come for the fascination of seeing how the Finnish artist takes on a very different kind of summer life: “Florida!” Jansson has her moments with the American landscape—highway-side bushes “like dollops of pink pudding”—but can lean cliché: see Linda with a Mama back in Guadalajara and a steady smile; or Bounty Joe eating ketchup with five slices of bread for second dessert Things grow increasingly garish and heavy-handed in the book’s long closer a group trip to Silver Springs—American tourism at its finest a Jungle Trail: a fluorescent fever dream of a finale that ultimately excuses itself as some sort of individual and collective “senior moment” (I think?) Grandmother would want to hate all this—the Berkeley Arms When her (only?) (…living?) friend reports that another friend’s “no longer among us,” she responds impatiently:  you mean he’s dead” … She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject even an intelligent conversationalist—or smart abstainer—in Mrs who “detest[s] platitudes more than silence.” Or don’t forget Elizabeth Morris who doesn’t “believe there are so many things left to be afraid of”: “Nebraska Morris and company what Sophia can’t give Grandmother; what Mrs Morris gives on the piano to stay the silence: “She gave them time.” Vanessa Lily Chung is a writer from Brooklyn. 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Weather MapsRadarWoman tried smuggling drugs into the Sun City; hidden 'where the sun doesn't shine'by David Ibave Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A 33-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after she reportedly tried to smuggle drugs into the Sun City from Mexico hidden in parts where the sun doesn't shine a drug sniffing dog alerted officers of the presence of narcotics after sniffing an American woman waiting to cross the Paso Del Norte bridge in Downtown El Paso on foot the Texas Department of Public Safety obtained a search warrant for a medical exam officers found she had three drug packages hidden inside her vagina and rectum CBP said the woman then pushed the packages out revealing one had 20 grams of methamphetamine RECOMMENDED: Drug-sniffing dog uncovers a 'bootyful' surprise at El Paso border crossing CBP then turned the woman over to Texas DPS for prosecution CBP said this was not the only "stinky" smuggling attempt that was thwarted over the weekend eight more drug mules trying to smuggle fentanyl and meth from Mexico into El Paso were stopped during the weekend between the Paso Del Norte and Ysleta/Zaragoza port of entries CBP El Paso Port Director Ray Provencio stressed the dangers of trying to smuggle drugs this way Sign up to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox found itself engulfed in a severe dust storm on Thursday with conditions deteriorating rapidly throughout the day Winds reached speeds that could have gone as high as 75 miles per hour prompting the National Weather Service to issue a weather warning as visibility dropped to near zero RELATED:Weather Warn: Strong winds and blowing dust return Thursday and Friday Residents expressed their frustration with the storm I don't like it at all," said one local I couldn't even see when I was driving." which some are calling the worst of the season You feel grimy afterwards and it makes your eyes itch," said a resident The storm's impact has been particularly harsh on those with respiratory issues "I wouldn't recommend anybody with allergies or any type of respiratory problems because it's nasty," said a concerned resident "You have to be careful with your allergies." The storm's sudden onset caught many off guard "It was getting in my eyes and in my kid's eyes and we had to like shield like literally walk and I had to hold that we were just blind as a unit," said a parent RECOMMENDED:What's Driving You Crazy: Lack of street signs, pavement markings the sentiment of wanting the storm to pass quickly was echoed by many I tell my wife all the time that there's only a couple of nice days in El Paso for some reason," said another resident residents are urged to stay indoors and take precautions to protect themselves from the harsh conditions You can stay up to date on the latest weather conditions here Sign up to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. 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