Two Tampa Tribune editorial writers recently were honored for their work. Opinion Editor Joe Guidry was named the 2009 recipient of the Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing by the Wilderness Society. He was cited for his understanding of complex issues in editorials that sought to build public support for protection of the country's national heritage. ...more

August 30, 2009

Lyndon Guidry wasn't taking any chances this time around, not after what Hurricane Katrina did to his house in New Orleans three years ago. ...more

August 31, 2008

"Rivers of the Green Swamp," edited by Judith Redfern Koch and Albert W. Vogt III (Florida Studies Program and the Tampa Bay Writers Network at the University of South Florida, $15) ...more

May 11, 2008

Boy Scout Brian Guidry, 14, a member of New Tampa-based Troop 148, supervised a group of Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and adults in refurbishing a stable and tack room Feb. 2 for the Traverse program in Thonotosassa. Traverse is therapeutic horsemanship program for at-risk children. Guidry undertook the effort as his Eagle Scout service project. The project included removing and disposing of old walls and replacing and painting new walls and adjacent existing posts. ...more

February 20, 2008

Florida's famed 'Guitar Army' has lost a soldier. Hughie Thomasson, a founding member of The Outlaws, the world-touring, Tampa-based Southern rock band, died of an apparent heart attack at his Brooksville home late Sunday. ...more

September 11, 2007