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  • Mayor proclaims Florida Water Professionals Week

    Around Osceola
    Created: Wednesday, 18 August 2010 00:00
    Submitted by city of St. Cloud Public Information OfficeSt. Cloud Mayor Donna Hart proclaimed the week of Aug. 16-20 as Florida Water Professionals Week in St. Cloud during a regular council meeting at City Hall on Aug. 12. ...

  • Gas for Guns set for Friday

    Around Osceola
    Created: Wednesday, 18 August 2010 00:00
    The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with Crimeline, will host a Gas for Guns program Friday at Primera Iglesia Cristiana, 2440 Boggy Creek Road in Kissimmee from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ...

  • Madison to be featured guest Friday at New York Artist Shop

    Around Osceola
    Created: Wednesday, 18 August 2010 00:00
    The New York Artist Shop, 1124 New York Ave., St. Cloud, will host an artist reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. This month’s featured artist will be Ralph Madison. ...

  • Bad information out there

    Opinions
    Created: Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:57
    We have to take issue with election campaign material recently circulated by Truth Matters, a Tallahassee big-money nonprofit, that mentions the Osceola News-Gazette. Apparently, truth does not matter for this group, run by Richard S. Cole, of Miami. ...

  • Letters to the editor for August 19, 2010

    Opinions
    Created: Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:53
    Ax it To the editor: You definitely are entitled to your opinion just like I’m entitled to mine. You show a lot of concern about the Osceola County Commission getting the vote out to the people of Osceola County. Why didn’t the commission show the s...

  • Kissimmee debate calm

    County News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 13:30
    By Brian McBrideAssociate Editor A proposed 1 percent sales tax, the Vine Street redevelopment project and crime statistics were just some issues fired at a Kissimmee City Commission seat 2 and 4 candidate debate Aug....

  • Abigail Adams project no party

    County News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 13:29
    By Fallan PattersonStaff Writer A national project aimed at helping voters make more informed choices at the polls checks into Osceola County this election season for the first time. The Abiga...

  • Council on Aging tightens its belt, gets the job done

    County News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 13:22
    News-Gazette Photo/Andrew SullivanDuring the Osceola County Council on Aging’s 39th anniversary breakfast Thursday, 91-year-old Osceola County resident Yvonne Jillson is welcomed to the podium by Council Ma...

  • County commission set to act on master plan

    County News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 13:18
    By Marvin G. CortnerEditor Osceola County’s Northeast District Conceptual Master Plan – which sets out how a large area south of Lake Nona would be developed – is on the agenda for approval Monday at the Count...

  • Diagnostic business concerns St. Cloud residents

    County News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 13:15
    By Fallan PattersonStaff Writer Despite residents’ concerns, the St. Cloud City Council voted Thursday night to allow a medical equipment service facility to be built amid residential housing. ...

  • Kissimmee leaders on a roll with hockey skating league

    County News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 13:04
    Submitted photoKissimmee City Manager Mark Durbin, left, and Dave Derrick, Kissimmee Public Works director, breeze across the rink in last year’s inline hockey tournament in Las Vegas. By Ken Jacks...

  • Detectives clear 41 cases with arrest of four suspects

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:25
    Adkins Lewis Osceola County Sheriff's Office deputies, along with the Community Response Team West, have arrested four suspects allegedly involved in more than 41 burglaries, fraud...

  • News Briefs for August 14, 2010

    County News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:21
    St. Cloud Academy applications due Aug. 20 Resident who live and/or work in St. Cloud are invited to submit applications through Aug. 20 for the 2010 City of St. Cloud Citizens Academy, scheduled for every Monday from...

  • Here comes over-the-hill gang — Stallone misdirects what should have been a fun action film

    Entertainment
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:19
    By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor You get what you pay for. And if all you want for your $10.50 (regular adult admission at The Loop in Kissimmee)  movie ticket is lots of explosions, knife and gun fights,...

  • Lady Dogs’ Martinez starts college career at Tennessee Temple

    Sports
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:17
    News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan St. Cloud’s Diana Martinez eludes an Osceola defender while playing quarterback for the Lady Bulldogs’ flag football team during a game early last season. Martinez enjo...

  • Raptors runner 19th in J.O. 3K

    Sports
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:10
    Photo/Special to the News-Gazette St. Cloud Raptors runner Octavia Gonzalez, left, accepts a medal at the National Club Championships at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports recently. Gonzalez qualified for the AAU...

  • Danielle LaPoint named Liberty athletic director

    Sports
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:05
    LaPoint By Rick PedoneSports Editor Liberty High’s new athletic director, Danielle LaPoint, already has had a hectic initiation period and school doesn’t begin until next week. She was in Ocala...

  • Sports Briefs for August 14, 2010

    Sports
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:03
    Overdrive golfThe Osceola Overdrive Fastpitch softball travel organization will host its 5th Annual Golf Tournament at the Kissimmee Golf Club Sept. 18 at 8 a.m.Cost per team is $270 and includes lunch from Full Throt...

  • FSU-BYU bus trip tickets are available

    Sports
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:01
    Linette Chambers, mother of former Harmony High football player O’Neill Chambers, is organizing a bus trip to the Brigham Young-FSU football game Sept. 18 at Doak Campbell Stadium. Game time is 3:30 p.m. Chambers, a...

  • Lakefront Project

    Opinions
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 11:58
    We certainly agree with Osceola County and city of Kissimmee officials that county financial help for the Kissimmee Lakefront Park improvement project using tourist development tax revenue would be appropriate, given t...