Maddux NewsWire

Say ‘fishing’ and one thinks of long days of boating in the sunshine, catching your limit of fish, spending time with close friends and challenging the waves to find that perfect fishing hole. Comes now Animal Based Charities, who recently produced the largest pet adoption event in the history of this area, to host [...]

Tampa, FL – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 10, 2010
A capacity crowd of 240 donors and friends of the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay gathered in the Margaret Heye Great Room at Ruth Eckerd Hall yesterday to celebrate the Foundation’s 20th anniversary and hear messages of success and hope.
“Twenty years of giving through donor [...]

Applications for the scholarship are due June 1, 2010.
Executives from charitable agencies seeking to hone their business skills – and apply them in the non-profit arena – are invited to apply for a $21,500 scholarship to the Executive MBA program at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Covering half the expenses of the [...]

TAMPA, FL – March 10, 2010 – Liberty Property Trust (NYSE:LRY) today announced that William Carroll has joined Liberty Property Trust as a Regional Property Manager. In his new role, he will be responsible for overseeing the property management of Liberty’s Southern region portfolios, including Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, South Florida, Houston and Phoenix.
“Bill is a [...]

Clearwater, FL – March 2010
The Ross Realty Group, Inc. is proud to announce the sale of the Former Clearwater Mattress Manufacturing &
Warehouse/Distribution Facility located at 1185 Gooden Crossing Road in Largo, Florida.
The facility consisted of three concrete block buildings totaling 55,735 square feet on 2.51 acres of land. The property
sold for $1,250,000 ($22.43 per square [...]

Tampa, FL – March 10, 2010 — Pilgrim Software, Inc., a world-leading
provider of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management
software solutions, today announced a strategic partnership agreement
with PSC Group, LLC, an information technology and professional
services consulting company that enables its clients to predict change
accurately and prepare for it in ways that mitigate risk while
leveraging opportunity. In [...]

The construction workforce was smaller in every state and the District of Columbia in January 2010 than it was just 12 months earlier, according to a new analysis of federal data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. The data indicated just how widespread the construction downturn is, association officials said, noting that [...]

Louis Flack was a man in love. He was in love with his family, his country, his wife, the art of photography and finally, we must assume, in love with philanthropy, as his generous bequest of over one million dollars to the Dunedin Art Center surely attests.
He will be honored at a luncheon at [...]

The numbers show an upswing in bus service for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit. A report for the month of February shows HART’s bus service experienced a significant increase, of nearly 2.5%, for the first time since December 2008.
There is also a huge increase in HART’s U-Pass program, which is up 28% from last year [...]

Plant City – Hillsborough Community College’s Plant City Campus will be hosting its annual job fair on Tuesday, March 16th. Anyone seeking employment is encouraged to attend this free event which will also feature career skills training and job placement.
Participating employers include:
Argosy University City of Plant City
ComForcare Senior Services
Florida Surveying & Mapping [...]

Tampa, FL – March 9, 2010 – Odyssey Marine Exploration (NasdaqCM: OMEX), pioneers in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, today reported full year 2009 financial results.
For the full year 2009, Odyssey reported revenues of $4.3 million, compared to $4.1 million in 2008 while operating expenses decreased $6.4 million from $29.1 million in 2008 [...]

March 9, 2010 (Tampa, FL) The American Victory Ship is pleased to announce that it will be the primary beneficiary of the Tampa premiere of “The Lightkeepers” featuring Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner at the Channelside IMAX Theaters on Thursday, March 18th at 7:00pm.
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who [...]