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By Tiffanie Reynolds Staff Writer It takes more than one person to keep a community healthy, but it only takes one leader to keep that effort going.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement Orlando Regional Operations Center on Thursday arrested Osceola County Sheriff’s Deputy Marc John Jordanides, 33, on one count of bribery of or by public servant.
By Ken Jackson Staff Writer Dakota Basinger hopes his unfortunate experience last weekend in a Kissimmee Parks and Recreation basketball program serves as education and a “teaching moment” for dealing with people who are HIV-positive.
By Tiffanie Reynolds Staff Writer At sunrise on April 8, Lauren Book and a little more than a dozen volunteers gathered in front of the Osceola Child Advocacy Center to walk for child sexual abuse awareness.
Storm is only local team to compete By Logan Martinez For the News-Gazette With Celebration’s first female lacrosse season now concluded, both coaches and players can contemplate historic firsts and lessons learned. For example, there was that nagging problem of making sure that all of the equipment arrived. One day at practice assistant coach Brendan Cunningham lugged a worn cardboard box out of the back of his car and dropped
By Rick Pedone Sports Editor Harmony wrestling coach Chris Todd, who built the Longhorns program from its inception 10 years ago, said that he is stepping down to pursue a postgraduate degree in education leadership. “I have genuinely enjoyed my time and successes as head coach and I will miss it, and the great coaches I have worked with at this school,” Todd said in his letter of resignation to
Mike Fields retirement ceremony A celebration to honor the career of current Harmony and former St. Cloud baseball Coach Mike Fields will be 7 p.m. June 13 at the Royal St. Cloud Golf Links Royal Crest Room. Fields for the past 35 years has been a coach and athletic director in Osceola County after six years of similar experience in Indiana. He recently became the 13th coach in Florida high
The Orange County Regional History Center’s exhibition Gone With the Wind: Reel to Real, commemorates the 75th anniversary of the film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War novel. The exhibition features the original gowns, costumes and artifacts of the film and is derived entirely from one collector, James Tumblin, who has the largest private collection of memorabilia from the film. The exhibition runs August 16 – November 30. James Tumblin,
By Peter Covino A&E Editor The oldest movie theater in Osceola County is about to get a lot better. The St. Cloud Twin, the county’s only locally-owned movie theater has a new look inside, and is about to get a facelift outside as well. With the help from a grant by the St. Cloud CRA and St. Cloud Main Street, the hometown theater, which has been part of the city’s
“Jesus Christ Superstar,” the global phenomenon that has wowed audiences for over 40 years, is reimagined for the 21st century as an arena-rock spectacular. The biggest ever North American arena tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s groundbreaking rock musical is coming to Orlando at the Amway Center on Saturday, June 14 with an extraordinary cast of rock, pop and R&B superstars. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 11
By Peter Covino Film Critic Before moving on to this week’s DVDs, there is some really good news for everyone with a digital collection of UltraViolet movies. Flixster, the online movie website, announced this week its mobile application now works with Google’s Chromecast device as well as Amazon’s new FireTV media player. That means there finally is an easy way to watch your cloud-based movies on your home television, as
By Peter Covino A&E Editor So what games are on your iPad or android device? I have a pretty limited attention span when it comes to games and apps and will obsess over a game or application for a few weeks or a month and then abandon it out of boredom or when a near fatal glitch comes along. Currently, I am still playing Westbound (Kiwi, Inc), a free game
By Peter Covino A&E Editor There was a lot that was wrong with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of the trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s famed book. The story crept along slower than a wounded hobbit as director Peter Jackson stretched one book into a trilogy of films. Middle-Earth fans can rejoice with the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment),
Storm is only local team to compete By Logan Martinez For the
By Rick Pedone Sports Editor Harmony wrestling coach Chris Todd, who built