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• Off the Eaten Path — Cypress Restaurant at Forever Florida is a close brush with nature

  Daily News Updates

  Created: Tuesday, 28 June 2011 16:14

  

  By Peter CovinoEntertainment EditorEuell Gibbons used to roam the remote countryside in search of wild asparagus and other exotic vegetation in search of something good to eat. I don’t think so. I prefer findin...

• Ford dealership changes hands after 73 years

  County News

  Created: Tuesday, 28 June 2011 13:05

  

  Kisselback One of Central Florida’s most distinguished auto dealerships, Poffenbaugh Ford of St. Cloud/Osceola County – which was started 73 years ago – has changed hands for the first time and...

• Jurassic Park trilogy will be shaking the ground with Blu-ray debut Oct. 25

  Entertainment

  Created: Tuesday, 28 June 2011 10:57

    By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor If you love Blu-rays as much as I do, here is one that that looks like a must for every collection: the Jurassic Park Trilogy. The big date for the release is Oct. 25 and the package alone is enough of a reason&n...

• Burn prevention and awareness tips from St. Cloud Regional Medical Center

  County News

  Created: Tuesday, 28 June 2011 09:08

  As the nation’s birthday on July 4 approaches, families and individuals should make fireworks safety a priority, according to St. Cloud Regional Medical Center and ER Extra. The bottom line is that unsupervised fireworks use not only presents the threat...

• American Red Cross helps over 100 people after Kissimmee fire

  County News

  Created: Monday, 27 June 2011 16:00

  American Red Cross disaster relief volunteers have assisted more than 120 residents displaced after a massive fire broke out around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night at the Vacation Lodge Maingate in Kissimmee. ...

• Registration open for third annual statewide small farms conference July 15-17

  County News

  Created: Monday, 27 June 2011 11:47

  

  Florida’s only statewide small farms conference returns for a third year July 15-17 in Kissimmee, and this year’s slate is even more in-depth than in the conference’s first two years. ...

• Northeast District plan gets county OK

  County News

  Created: Saturday, 25 June 2011 15:54

  By Marvin G. Cortner Editor A conceptual master plan for a 19,000-acre swath of northeastern Osceola County received the County Commission’s stamp of approval Monday, paving the way for property owners to now design a mixed use development plan for th...

• Principal Gary Preisser leaves OHS

  County News

  Created: Saturday, 25 June 2011 06:47

  By Rick PedoneSports Editor Osceola High School Principal Gary Preisser will leave the school after three years to become the Orange County Athletic Director. ...

• Remains identified as missing teen

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 18:26

  

    Jung Update: 5:30 p.m. -- St. Cloud Police have announced that significant evidence suggests that the person found in the backyard of 819 Carolina Ave. in St. Cloud to be 16-year-old Ashley ...

• Bronson won't stand trial for murder

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 18:18

  

    Bronson By Fallan Patterson Staff Writer Steven H. Bronson Jr. was declared incompetent to stand trial today by Osceola County Circuit Judge Scott Polodna and committed to the Departm...

• Detectives arrest three suspects on drug charges; recover three guns

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 15:23

  Castillo McKie Robins Osceola County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested Melissa Castillo, 20, Andrew McKie, 29, and Malcolm Robins, 19, all of 5399 W. U.S. Highway 192, Kissimmee, and charged them with possession of c...

• Lane closure on Pleasant Hill Road Sunday

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 14:45

  

  Lindquist Construction crews will need to temporarily close the inside lanes on Pleasant Hill Road at the Village Shops of Bellalago as they work to construct a southbound left turn lane, county officials announced tod...

• Get a whiff of Spy Kids in 4D in Aromascope.

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 14:43

   Dimension Films announced today that SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD is taking moviegoers to a whole new dimension in 4D with Aromascope. ...

• Meeting to address McLaren Circle issues

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 13:07

  

  By Brian McBride Associate Editor With the recent violence exhibited by the shooting death of a young man in McLaren Circle, Kissimmee officials at a City Commission meeting Tuesday agreed to set up a meeting to addr...

• Ramirez claims elections office roadblocks

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 13:03

  

  Ramirez By Fallan PattersonStaff Writer Armando Ramirez, who is suing Osceola County Supervisor of Election’s Office Supervisor Mary Jane Arrington, was ordered by the court Tuesday to finish copy...

• Slashing the family food bill

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 13:00

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Fallan PattersonKelly Shrieves reaches for cat food at a local grocery store, which she purchased for less than 20 cents due to coupons. Shrieves uses couponing to keep her family’s expen...

• News briefs for June 25, 2011

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:52

  

  Mercer Reappointed to planning council Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday reappointed former Osceola County commissioner and property appraiser Atlee Mercer, of Kissimmee, to the East Central Regional Planning...

• Northeast District plan gets county nod

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:50

  

  By Marvin G. Cortner Editor A conceptual master plan for a 19,000-acre swath of northeastern Osceola County received the County Commission’s stamp of approval Monday, paving the way for property owners to now desig...

• Alan Sincic is recipient of Hermitage program

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:47

  

  Sincic The Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood has just initiated a new artist residency for arts teachers in Florida. ...

• Three arrested for forgery

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:43

  Anselme Bryant Quinn Vincent Three people were arrested earlier this week — one of them a Kissimmee resident — on forgery charges, and a fourth suspect is still being sought. ...