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• Tear up that Citrus Bowl grass

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 09:04

  Monster trucks return to the stadium’s most popular annual eventBy Peter Covino Entertainment Editor What does it take to fill up the Citrus Bowl? The football bowl games may be popular, but nothing fills up the stadium like the annual motor sports ...

• Less seating; no human signs

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:57

  We don’t have a problem with smaller restaurants in downtown Kissimmee being allowed to sell beer and wine with seating for 30 people instead of the currently required 50, with at least two-thirds of the seating inside the establishment....

• Some tips to keep women alive among ‘serial killers’

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:54

   Juliana A. TorresNews-Gazette staff writerCommentary The other day I received an e-mail from a well-meaning friend, offering 10 safety tips to keep women from becoming the victim of a random act of violence and/or serial killer. An equally well...

• Tremendous strides made by students

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:43

    Jay WheelerAs I See Itnews@osceolanewsgazette.comBy every measure, Osceola County schools have made remarkable gains in reading scores, math scores, FCAT school letter grades and high school graduation rates since the start of the 2008-09 scho...

• Harmony wins playoff debut, 2-1

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:41

  By Ken Jackson Sports WriterHarmony’s girls soccer team proved Tuesday that playoff experience sometimes can’t hold a shin guard to the most determined teams. ...

• Astros tickets now on sale

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:40

  By Ken Jackson Sports Writer Individual game tickets for Houston Astros spring training games at Osceola County Stadium are now on sale through the box office (open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily) and by phone (1-800-745-3000) and online through Ticketmaster (ti...

• Girls basketball squads seek 1st district crowns

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:40

  By Ken Jackson Sports Writer The book on Gateway, Poinciana and Harmony’s girls basketball playoff fortunes reads more like a pamphlet. ...

• Osceola to retire Ford’s No. 40

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:39

  By Rick Pedone Sports Editor Nearly 30 years and hundreds of players later, no one has played basketball at Osceola High School like Frank Ford. Probably, no-body ever will. ...

• Storm soccer back in regionals

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:36

  By Ken Jackson Sports Writer The story is the same as last year: Celebration’s boys are headed to next week’s regional soccer playoffs, and they’ll make the trip alone. ...

• Former manager arrested for lottery theft

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 06:55

  Kissimmee police arrested a former Kangaroo Express manager who reportedly stole more than $11,000 worth of lottery scratch-off tickets.Detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Jacquelin Mesha Gotto, 52, for grand theft. She was the manager of the Kangar...

• Two arrested for Poinciana car burglary

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 06:52

  Two Poinciana residents were arrested Tuesday for a car burglary and admitted to breaking into several other cars in the Poinciana area, Osceola County Sheriff's Office detectives said. Matthew Ramos, 20, and Chassity Cobb, 18, face charges of unoccup...

• Nolte Road moves ahead

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 05:46

  By Juliana A. Torres Staff Writer The city of St. Cloud has acquired almost all of the parcels needed for the New Nolte Road expansion, which will extend the east-west street from Canoe Creek Road to Hickory Tree Road on the east side of St. Cloud. ...

• Lake Tohopekaliga gets ‘haircut’

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 05:45

  A pair of harvesters from Texas Aquatic Harvesting Wednesday were removing Polygonum hydropiperoides, or swamp smartweed, from the northern end of Lake Tohopekaliga to make the waterway more easily navigable by boaters that live in nearby communities.&nbs...

• Changes in the making at Avon Park Air Force training area

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 05:41

   Worry Over Noise News-Gazette Photos/Marvin G. CortnerGene Sumner, left, of Yeehaw Junction, looks over a map of the Avon Park Air Force Range with Osceola County Commission Chairman Fred Hawkins Jr. By Marvin G. CortnerEditor It’s shake...

• Poinciana residents pack town hall meeting

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 05:37

  By Rick Madewell Assistant Editor About 200 concerned Poinciana residents filled the local community center Tuesday night to hear Osceola County Commissioner Brandon Arrington and a panel of project officials discuss the community’s future in a tow...

• Sign up to get your newspaper

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 05:29

  By Rick Madewell Assistant Editor The Osceola News-Gazette is undergoing a major circulation renewal effort to make sure customers continue receiving their free editions of the newspaper. ...

• St. Cloud CRA adopts new logo

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 05:21

  The city of St. Cloud Community Redevelopment Agency has selected the winning entry for its logo design contest that ended Jan. 8, and the winner is city planner Dale Cozeck, who presented the logo on behalf of the city’s planning and zoning staff. ...

• Bourne again—new flip disc has Blu-ray/DVD combo

  Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 09:50

  By Peter CovinoEntertainment Editor It seems like a million years ago that Joe Friday and Bill Gannon (Jack Webb, Harry Morgan) awkwardly walked through a crime scene in Dragnet (now seen locally on the Retro Television Network). ...

• No troubled water for Bridges — Veteran actor may get first Oscar win playing this boozing singer

  Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 09:10

  By Peter Covino Entertainment EditorPut a bottle of whiskey in a veteran actor’s hand, teach ’em how to sing a country song, and you probably pretty much got a sure-fire Oscar nomination. ...

• Poinciana sees good things in schools

  Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:49

  Send e-mail in care of the News-Gazette to: news@osceolanews gazette.com.Poinciana By: Lisa D’Cato...