By Ken Jackson
Staff Writer

The Board of Osceola County Commissioners on April 8 agreed to sign agreements with UCF’s School of Medicine and a new vocational school coming to St. Cloud.

The latter is a new interlocal agreement to partner with the city of St. Cloud to provide $650,000 for capital improvements to a St. Cloud-owned building that will house a private university that offers degrees in the medical field.

By Fallan Patterson
For the News-Gazette
Osceola County Clerk of Court Armando Ramirez has fired another member of his handpicked staff last week, within four months of taking office.

Want to see a four-pawed deputy in action? Curious about the Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol? Eager to go on a treasure hunt? Maybe you’d like to provide a pet with a forever home?

By Fallan Patterson
For the News-Gazette

Osceola County’s homeless and low-income residents soon will have one place to find all the resources they need when the Community Hope Center opens next week.

Volunteers have spent weeks painting, doing landscaping and moving donated furniture into the renovated Mexican restaurant on the West U.S. Highway 192 Corridor.

The brainchild of local faith-based and nonprofit organizations, the center will cater to those residents looking for food, housing, spiritual and other needs

By Ken Jackson
Staff Writer

Osceola County may take back an ownership interest in a building it helped pay to construct five years ago for the Children’s Advocacy Center.

By Fallan Patterson
For the News-Gazette

The Osceola County School District is gearing up to challenge students in a whole new way by implementing tougher education standards and replacing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.