Winter passeth but rebirth follows with the Spring. Godspeed and calm seas to you good Sir. May you find peace and renewal as you journey forward.

Local television personalities are a special sort. We welcome them into our homes and our lives. We grow with them, and they with us. We bear witness to tragedies and triumphs together. Their families become extensions of our own. A birth, a death, illness or marriage. All these events they share with us and we're all the better for it. The Tampa Bay extended family suffered a tragic loss when John Winter was found deceased. We knew him, yet most of us had never met him. We mourn the passing of one of our own and our lives will be a bit emptier with him gone. Whatever turmoil he carried in this life, may he cast off those burdens and travel swiftly and peaceably onto and in the next. Rest in peace John Winter.