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• Sports briefs for September 4, 2010

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 11:20

  

  Preds fundraiser The Poinciana Predators flag football team will hold a car wash and yard sale Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at CenterState Bank on Cypress Parkway. ...

• Help for economy

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 09:22

  

  Allowing new businesses to pay Osceola County transportation impact fees over a five-year period, as proposed, would be helpful to our struggling local economy. In that way, new businesses would be able to spread these...

• This is who ‘we’ really is

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 09:18

  

  Leonard PittsTribune Media A few words about who “we” is. “This is a moment,” said Glenn Beck three months ago on his radio program, “... that I think we ‘reclaim’ the civil rights movement. It has been...

• Colombia, Venezuela and NASA

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 09:14

  

  Ross MackenzieTribune Media A random walk among issues currently in the news.... Comes now Big Brother. Not only do state and local governments have unfunded retirement obligations totaling at least $2 trillion. Also...

• Letters to the editor for September 4, 2010

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 09:12

  

  No endorsement To the editor: Newspapers have always played a significant part in American politics. Before the Internet and television it was how most voters got election results. Many of us have seen what is probab...

• Impact fees, consolidation revisited

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:46

  

  Smith By Marvin G. CortnerEditor Consolidation of services and transportation impact fees were the two top issues Osceola County commissioners addressed Monday in their quarterly retreat. Commissio...

• Out for Rec Fest

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:41

  

  Marcelo Gouts, a tennis instructor at Oak Street Community Park, provides to 6-year-old Jordan Balembo, of Poinciana, a sample of the  kind of instruction available. ...

• Kissimmee voters approved all but one charter change

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:28

  

  Swan By Marvin G. CortnerEditor Kissimmee voters Aug. 24 ap-proved all proposed charter changes except the one giving their commission the authority to waive the requirement that the city manager li...

• Officer Eustace offers advice for safety at home and work

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:16

  

  Eustace By Rick MadewellAssistant Editor Businesses and their employees can be made safer from burglars, vandals and other culprits if owners or managers make a few adjustments. The same can be said...

• Clerk of Courts employee fired

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:14

  

  By Fallan PattersonStaff Writer Osceola County’s Clerk of Court's Finance Director April Reynolds was terminated Aug. 17 after an investigation found she had allegedly taken $1,000 from an employee holiday fund. ...

• News briefs for September 2, 2010

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:12

  

  Selfridge new vice chair for Democrats The Osceola County Democratic Committee at its August meeting elected Clay Selfridge as its new vice chair. Current officers of the committee include Kris O’Horo, chair, Selfr...

• Arrest made for bomb threats

  Police News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:09

  

  Lawrence A 47-year-old St. Cloud man, who allegedly made several bomb threat calls to the St. Cloud Walmart as well as other false reports through the 911 emergency number, has been arrested. John E...

• Fatal crash on State Road 60

  Police News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:08

  

  Stephen Simpson, 44, of St. Augustine, was killed in a motorcycle crash Aug. 27 on State Road 60 in Osceola County. ...

• 23 arrested during safety checkpoint

  Police News

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:06

  

  The Osceola County Sheriff's Office on Aug. 27 conducted a safety and DUI sobriety checkpoint from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. and during the period deputies checked 1,522 cars, resulting in 356 violations, 273 citations and 23 ...

• Osceola vs. St. Cloud: Kowboys win streak at 4

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 09:21

  

  By Rick PedoneSports EditorSt. Cloud vs. Osceola is a football series of fits and starts.St. Cloud has a fit and wins a game or two, then Osceola starts on another lengthy winning streak.At least, that’s the way it h...

• Miscues haunted Horns in Classic

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 09:13

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Harmony’s Christian Acevedo (1) weaves through the Winter Springs defense with help from linemen Terry Akers (70) and Bryan Gutman (52). By Rick Pedone Sports E...

• Gateway takes on Eagles; Storm at ESPN

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 09:08

  

  By Ken JacksonSports Writer While they both took lopsided losses in their Kickoff Classics, either Poinciana or Gateway is going to start the regular season 1-0 when the two meet at the Ridenour Athletic Complex at 7:...

• Liberty meets Tenoroc in season opener

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 09:06

  

  By Rick PedoneSports Editor Last season, Liberty won a school-record eight games. Coach David Benson expects that success to continue when the team begins the 2010 regular season Friday at 7 p.m. at Lakeland Tenoroc....

• Sports Briefs for September 2, 2010

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 09:04

  Preds fundraiser The Poinciana Predators flag football team will  hold a car wash and yard sale Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at CenterState Bank on Cypress Parkway. ...

• Voters right...on most issues

  Opinions

  Created: Wednesday, 01 September 2010 09:02

  

  We disagree with only one of the decisions that city of Kissimmee voters made Aug. 24 in regard to charter changes. We believe the City Commission ought to have the authority to waive the requirement that a city manage...