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  • It’s a summer movie feast

    Entertainment
    Film Forget  those big summer blockbusters like Iron Man 2, Toy Story 3 and Robin Hood.You can travel back in time and see some real movie classics this summer on the big screen. ...
  • Catch this Train, Counting Crows and more

    Entertainment
    Universal Orlando Resort's Summer Concert Series is set to return beginning Saturday, June 12 with more top-name musical talent than ever before. ...
  • Vinyl is the hot Disney collectible

    Entertainment
    Downtown Disney D Street is the headquarters for Vinylmation figures By Peter CovinoEntertainment Editor Add one more collectible for Disney fans — the Vinylmation figures have arrived.The colorful “vinyls” are the number one attraction at the newe...
  • Live animal show at arts center

    Entertainment
    The Osceola Center for the Arts will present “Wild Wonders of the World,” a live show featuring the exotic animals of Joel Slaven at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 12. ...
  • Sun Sports for May 29, 2010

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  • Tommy Boyer will Pitch, Hit & Run at Tropicana Field

    Sports
    By Rick PedoneSports EditorAt the ripe old age of 8, Tommy Boyer will do something Sunday that millions of adult baseball fans would love to try: play on the same field as the major leaguers. ...
  • Magic show they still have pride

    Sports
    Regardless of what happened Friday in Game 6 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals, the Orlando Magic have at least earned back the respect they so pitifully squandered during the first three games of the series. ...
  • Harmony lineman Alex Perez inks letter of intent to Maryville College

    Sports
    By Rick PedoneSports EditorAlex Perez already has the size, at 6-3, 260 pounds, to play college football.The coaches at Maryville College in Maryville, Tenn. must agree since they issued him a grant recently as Perez prepared for graduation. ...
  • Burgos pitches at JC Series

    Sports
    By Ken JacksonSports WriterIn his final two years at Osceola High, Alex Burgos was a dominant high school pitcher. His numbers reflect it.Burgos had 207 strikeouts in 144 innings and he posted a 1.38 ERA as a junior and a 1.81 mark as a senior, when he ro...
  • Seabreeze stops Harmony in spring test

    Sports
    By Rick PedoneSports EditorThe score of Thursday’s spring game indicated a bad night for Harmony, a 38-14 loss to Daytona Beach Seabreeze in Ormond Beach. ...
  • Crist approves money for Valencia; vetoes airport funding

    County News
    In signing the 2010-11 Florida state budget Friday, Gov. Charlie Crist approved $21.8 million for a new building at Valencia Community College’s Osceola campus, but vetoed $2 million for a roadway at Kissimmee Gateway Ai...
  • Hydrilla patrol

    County News
    News-Gazette Photos/Andrew Sullivan Jeremy Slade, senior biological scientist for the Center for Aquatic Invasive Plants at the University of Florida, provided information during a hydrilla field day Thursday on Lake Tohopekaliga. The a...
  • County trims sportsplex offers to three

    County News
    By Marvin G. Cortner Editor Osceola County commissioners Monday narrowed down to three the property offers to be pursued on which to build an amateur sports complex using tourist development taxes, with further review...
  • Witnesses: commissioner was threatening estranged wife with gun

    County News
    Irizarry     BULLETIN: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has suspended Carlos Irizarry from the Kissimmee City Commission, city spokeswoman Carla Banks has confirmed Friday night. The four remaining members...
  • Making the lives of U.S. soldiers a little bit better

    County News
    Submitted Photo Irene Lamano boxes up care packages out of her Kissimmee home to send overseas to servicemen as part of Treats for Troops. By Ken Jackson Staff Writer For the past three years, ...
  • Kissimmee commissioner arrested for assault against wife

    County News
    Irizarry By Juliana A. Torres Staff Writer Kissimmee Commissioner Carlos Irizarry was arrested in Orange County Thursday morning for aggravated assault with a handgun against his wife, after he got ...
  • Man arrested for cocaine found in shed

    Police News
    Tapia-Chavez Aureliano Tapia-Chavez, 29, of Kissimmee, was arrested Monday for trafficking cocaine after authorities found 75 individually wrapped bags of cocaine, as well as stolen electronic equipment,...
  • Undercover theme park ticket operation

    Police News
    Geith Snyder   On Tuesday, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office Tourist Policing Unit charged four people with resale of multi-day tickets after conducted an undercover operation targ...
  • Volunteers honored by county’s Council on Aging

    Around Osceola
    More than 500 community volunteers and work station managers celebrated April as Volunteer Month by attending the Osceola County Council on Aging’s Volunteeer Center’s Annual Volunteer Recognition on April 23 at the Barney E. Veal Center in Kissimmee....
  • Sons of the Union Veterans donate display case to museum

    Around Osceola
    The St. Cloud Heritage Museum has a new cherry display case provided by the Sons of the Union Veterans. Displayed are the following items: ...

 

 

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