The Osceola County School Board Tuesday will consider whether to increase school property taxes to help the School District fund teacher and other staff salaries in the face of falling revenue.

Staying on Course 

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Kissimmee Police Department officer applicant Mike Edison, of Sebring, gets dirty while clearing an obstacle section of KPD's physical abilities test June 13. After completing a written exam earlier in the morning, Edison and about 30 other hopefuls were asked to complete a complicated obstacle course in a little over six minutes.

 
By Juliana A. Torres
Staff Writer

Under the sweltering heat of the Florida noonday sun, Brenda Betancourt throws all her weight into pulling on the arm of a 150-pound, sand-filled dummy, hoping that with both hands she can drag the fake body across the grass to the orange cone, still very far away, before her times runs out.

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Osceola County resident Dan Bova stands beside the trunk of an oak tree growing on his property, which is part of a rural enclave north of East Lake Tohopekaliga. Bova, and several of his neighbors, plan to organize against a proposed rezoning of several acres of land along Boggy Creek Road

 By Jessica Solis
Staff Writer

Residents in one of Osceola County’s rural enclaves north of East Lake Tohopekaliga don’t want a proposed subdivision neighboring their properties and their opposition prompted county officials to reconsider what they’ll allow in the area.