Sarasota Herald Tribune articles from September 2005, page 2

Sarasota Herald Tribune archives from September 2005

What the future holds.(FLORIDA WEST)(Column)
September 29, 2005... Byline: David Grimes Headlines from the year 2035! (Some original, some courtesy of the Almighty Internet.) President George Z. Bush says victory in Iraq "just around the corner" Average height of NBA player now 9 feet 3 inches...

Minding their manners ... more or less; Neatly folded napkins, proper conversation and a few surprises come up in an etiquette class for children.(FLORIDA WEST)
September 29, 2005... Byline: MARK ZALOUDEK mark.zaloudek@heraldtribune.com Nobody's perfect, not even the 5- to 11-year-olds dropped off by their parents and grandparents at Sarasota's posh Ritz-Carlton for a top-drawer lesson in table manners. But you...

NEW ON TV TODAY.(FLORIDA WEST)
September 29, 2005... * "Night Stalker" (9 p.m., ABC, WWSB-Ch. 40, WFTS-Ch. 28, WZVN-Ch. 26): A revival of the '70s series about a crime reporter who investigates crimes with a supernatural bent. 1 1/2 stars. -- Jay Handelman CAPTION(S): COURTESY...

City manager hires an assistant; Punta Gorda's new hire held a similar post in Venice from 1988-2000.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: SARA LUBBES sara.lubbes@heraldtribune.com PUNTA GORDA -- A former deputy city manager of Venice will be Punta Gorda's new assistant city manager. Kathy Dailey, 44, has nearly 20 years of public administration experience,...

FEMA selling some trailers; Charley victims get adjusted prices but have to find new lots for the mobile homes.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: PATRICK WHITTLE patrick.whittle@heraldtribune.com CHARLOTTE COUNTY -- After months living in a temporary trailer provided by the federal government, Hurricane Charley victim Sarah Cahill began to wonder if she and her family...

Englewood fire budget $4.47M -- $400,00 below plan.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT ENGLEWOOD -- The Englewood Area Fire Control District approved a $4.47 million operating budget for 2005-06 on Wednesday -- $400,000 short of the proposed budget. The shortfall, which district officials said...

BRIEFS.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Cocaine and handgun found in felon's home PORT CHARLOTTE -- The sheriff's Narcotics Unit arrested a man after detectives found 4.6 grams of cocaine, a .22-caliber handgun and 50 rounds of ammunition in his home, according to a sheriff's...

Kids get their say in new school design.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: ALISON POSNER alison.posner@heraldtribune.com Students at the Baker Center in Punta Gorda shared some important decision-making ideas Monday when they received a visit from William Mudgett of Parker Mudgett Smith Architects, and...

Workshop aimed at those left behind after suicide.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: AMY ABERN amy.abern@heraldtribune.com Would you know if your spouse, daughter or best friend was thinking of suicide? Maybe not, according to Ginny Chappelear, Hospice of Southwest Florida grief specialist. Sometimes there...

Educators association gathers to learn crafty fund raising.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: BETSY WILLIAMS CORRESPONDENT Making bunnies out of washcloths was just one of the fund-raising ideas highlighted Tuesday at the Florida Retired Educators Association District VII leadership workshop on the Charlotte Campus of...

OBITUARIES.(B SECTION)(Obituary)
September 29, 2005... CHARLOTTE COUNTY Stephanie Heron Stephanie Heron, 79, Port Charlotte, died Sept. 23, 2005, at Peace River Nursing and Rehab Center in Port Charlotte. She was born Oct. 25, 1925, in Jamaica and came to the Charlotte County area...

Brunner sparks Bombers.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT Brittnee Brunner struck out seven batters as the Miss Englewood Girls Fast-Pitch 16-Under Bombers defeated the Venice Wolverines 6-4 in softball Monday. Trailing 1-0, Danielle Williamson tied the score with a...

Back in class, students are eager to paint.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: SHARYN LONSDALE sharyn.lonsdale@heraldtribune.com Joe Wagner freely admits he "got lazy" this summer when it came to painting. Now, he said, he is ready "to get back on track" in Alix Anderson's art class. Anderson...

Tropical Spice may be put on ice by Igloo's woes.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: AMY ABERNamy.abern@heraldtribune.com Tropical Spice on Ice, an adult competitive ice skating team, recently returned from the Ice Skating Institute Adult National Competition in Las Vegas with a few awards. Englewood...

The spill drill; Venice should do more to prevent sewage-line breaks.(A SECTION)(Editorial)
September 29, 2005... The Venice city government must move beyond the reactive approach it takes to the chronic problem of sewage spills: A line breaks. The line is fixed. Another break occurs. The city government has reported 158 spills this...

Record store owner serves up platters from yesteryear; Entrepreneur hopes to corner the market on vinyl.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: CHRISTOPHER O'DONNELL chris.odonnell@heraldtribune.com NOKOMIS -- In an age when the Internet gives instant access to millions of songs, and electronics stores offer huge caches of compact discs, is anyone really interested in...

North Port budget hits whopping $111.4M.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: LIZ BABIARZ liz.babiarz@heraldtribune.com NORTH PORT -- Before this year, the most the city of North Port had budgeted for public spending in a single year was $82.5 million. The budget, adopted unanimously Wednesday night by the...

MOMS Club invites at-home mothers to open house.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT SNN News 6 meteorologist David Karnes recently visited the MOMS Club of Venice-North and conducted some hands-on scientific experiments with the children. The MOMS Club of Venice-North, a local chapter of a...

North Port budget hits $111.4M; Whopping 35% increase comes as population booms, values soar.(A SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: LIZ BABIARZ liz.babiarz@heraldtribune.com NORTH PORT -- Before this year, the most the city of North Port had budgeted for public spending in a single year was $82.5 million. The budget, adopted unanimously Wednesday night by the...

Bridge project to close Nokomis boat ramp; 50-year-old access bridge will be replaced; construction should be finished by Jan. 1.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT NOKOMIS -- The access bridge to the Nokomis Beach Park boat ramp will close for three months beginning Monday while a $916,000 bridge is constructed. The approximately 50-year-old, short-span bridge is...

BRIEFS.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Knife-wielding man tries to rob women NORTH PORT -- Police are searching for a man armed with a knife who attempted to rob a group of women this week. After Carolyn Yackanich, 69, pulled her vehicle into her Estates Drive carport...

Glenallen Elementary School students get their pick in computer giveaway.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... More than 100 families from Glenallen Elementary School will receive recycled and new custom-built Internet-ready computers in the next three months. And they are all free. Thanks to a grant from the Education Foundation of Sarasota...

Amateur radio operators get emergency training.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: KIM HACKETT kim.hackett@heraldtribune.com Amateur radio operators in South Sarasota County have become part of the American Red Cross emergency response team to help keep the lines of communication open after a disaster. Red...

Manatee snapshots; Brief comments on life and times in our county.(A SECTION)(Editorial)
September 29, 2005... Hoping for smoother skating It's encouraging to hear that the new owners of the J.P. Igloo Ice and Inline Sport Complex in Ellenton intend to keep the facility open. State Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, and a business partner,...

Sailors' newcomer serves up a victory.(SPORTS)
September 29, 2005... Byline: JON STYF jon.styf@heraldtribune.com SARASOTA -- Mary Franklin has been playing on Sarasota's varsity volleyball team for only a little more than a week, but the sophomore is already paying dividends. The Sailors serving...

Port, regulators disagree over sea grass project; Looking to use new berth, port seeks sign-off for dredging.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN kathleen.mclaughlin@heraldtribune.com PORT MANATEE -- Sea grass always was the linchpin to a major expansion at Port Manatee. In exchange for permission to dredge more than 100 acres and build a new...

Public boat dock gets preliminary OK; Bradenton considers dock that would let boaters "park" downtown.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: JULIA GLICK julia.glick@heraldtribune.com BRADENTON -- It won't quite be Venice, Italy, but boaters here may be able to float downtown, park their boats for free at Rossi Waterfront Park and then stroll to shops and restaurants....

Deputies:Robber rode son's BMX bike; A man is charged with armed robbery after a bicycle-borne holdup at a Bradenton motel.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: MICHAEL A. SCARCELLA michael.scarcella@heraldtribune.com BRADENTON -- Bryant Keith Hobgood is into BMX bikes and racing. A sticker on the back of his car reads, "BMX: No Cry Babies," and on weekends, he watches his teenage son...

Lingerie shop owner gets 8 years for firebomb plot.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: MICHAEL A. SCARCELLA michael.scarcella@heraldtribune.com BRADENTON -- The planned firebombing of a lingerie modeling business was set for the busiest night of the week, when the most girls would be entertaining the most clients....

Bradenton approves 229-acre annexation.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: JULIA GLICK julia.glick@heraldtribune.com BRADENTON -- The City Council on Wednesday narrowly approved the annexation of 229 acres into the city, a move that could pave the way for a 1,440-home development on the site. Metro...

BRIEFS.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Man gets life sentence, no parole, for murder BRADENTON -- A jury deliberated for less than an hour Wednesday afternoon before convicting a Bradenton man in the murder of a retired dental surgeon. Circuit Judge Peter Dubensky...

Grandparents and Friends group forms to support Saint Stephen's.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Grandparents, parents and friends of current and former Saint Stephen's Episcopal School students have organized to help support programs at the private school offering pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. The new Grandparents and...

Experts to speak at genealogical society meeting.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: JANET GIBSONjanet.gibson@heraldtribune.com After a summer break, people interested in tracing their roots will resume monthly meetings. The Manasota Genealogical Society will meet from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the...

OBITUARIES.(B SECTION)(Obituary)
September 29, 2005... MANATEE COUNTY Fred Carl Coryell Jr. Fred Carl Coryell Jr., 58, Bradenton, died Sept. 24, 2005. He was born July 25, 1947, in Lansing, Mich., and came to this area three years ago from Michigan. He was a retired public safety...

Inmate found with gun in courthouse; A bailiff discovers the revolver during a pat-down just before the convicted felon would have entered a Sarasota courtroom.(A SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: TODD RUGER todd.ruger@heraldtribune.com SARASOTA COUNTY -- Before heading to court Wednesday, George Dupree wrapped a laundry bag around himself like a diaper and put on two pairs of jail-issue shorts and two pairs of jail-issue...

Minding their manners ... more of less.(FLORIDA WEST)
September 29, 2005... Byline: MARK ZALOUDEK mark.zaloudek@heraldtribune.com Nobody's perfect, not even the 5- to 11-year-olds dropped off by their parents and grandparents at Sarasota's posh Ritz-Carlton for a top-drawer lesson in table manners. But you...

Brother, not police, got Joseph Smith to talk about Carlie's slaying.(B SECTION)(Comment)(Column)
September 29, 2005... Byline: Tom Lyons When I read about a motion filed by Joseph Smith's public defender, Adam Tebrugge, I figured some people would be bothered by it. It kind of worried me, too. Tebrugge is just doing his job, defending the man...

County sets affordable housing goal; Commissioners hope new policies will add 500 moderately priced houses a year.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: DALE WHITE dale.white@heraldtribune.com SARASOTA COUNTY -- Hoping to reverse a worsening shortage of moderately priced housing for the area's work force, the county commissioners adopted a sweeping slate of zoning and other...

Years after trailers cleared out, park plan still not off ground; City staff to seek $7.5M for first phase.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: MIKE SAEWITZ mike.saewitz@heraldtribune.com SARASOTA -- It's supposed to be Sarasota's Central Park. But for the past few years, it has been home to light poles, wooden remnants of a mobile park shooting up from grass where...

State trying to cut new Babcock deal; A proposal sees the state acquiring 74,000 acres, and the developer with rights on 17,000 acres.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: LLOYD DUNKELBERGER CAPITAL BUREAU TALLAHASSEE -- State officials are devising a "unique proposal" to acquire and manage the Babcock Ranch in Southwest Florida, although Gov. Jeb Bush and Cabinet members won't actually consider...

Woman dies in fall from high-rise public housing complex in Sarasota.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT SARASOTA -- A woman died Wednesday evening after falling several stories from a public housing apartment building. The incident happened shortly after 7 p.m. at McCown Towers, a complex for seniors and people...

Water deal has one approval left to go.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: DOUG SWORD doug.sword@heraldtribune.com Four down, one to go. Sarasota County approved a $130 million project Wednesday to expand water supplies for the region and build a 6 billion-gallon reservoir to meet water needs during...

New group's focus is holistic parenting.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: PATTY ALLEN-JONES patty.allen-jones@heraldtribune.com Sarasota resident Kim Park is starting a local chapter of a national organization for people interested in holistic parenting. Holistic Moms Network is a non-profit group...

Massage school raises $3,630 for hurricane relief.(B SECTION)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT The Sarasota School of Massage Therapy raised $3,630 for the Children's Hunger Fund, which will be used to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina. A total of 33 people received massage therapy from 16 local...

OBITUARIES.(B SECTION)(Obituary)
September 29, 2005... SARASOTA COUNTY Grace Lovina Christner Grace Lovina Christner, 76, Sarasota, died Sept. 26, 2005. She was born April 5, 1929, in Darien, N.Y., and came to Sarasota in 1960 from Alden, N.Y. She was a homemaker and a member of The...

S.O.S. is out for exercise in ethics.(H-T EAST MANATEE)(Editor's Desk)(Column)
September 29, 2005... Byline: Christi Womack Make your plans now to do something fun in November. The Manatee Chamber of Commerce is looking for 100 adult volunteers to participate in its Real Life 101 program. Here's the scoop, according to Jahna...

Bastion for boys.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT EAST MANATEE -- Boys are still frolicking while the future of their camp is decided in court. Established in 1929, Camp Flying Eagle is one of the oldest Boy Scout camps in Florida. The Manatee County Boys...

Emergency workers get get a hand.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: MARI ROBYN JONES robyn.jones@heraldtribune.com EAST MANATEE -- For years, emergency workers have contended with fuzzy radio connections when they called for backup. Sometimes, calls got lost. Workers were too far away to get...

Give a boy a piece of wood and a car emerges.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT EAST MANATEE -- The pinewood derby is synonymous with Cub Scouting. Boys carve a block of pinewood into a vehicle. With adult supervision, they whittle a car that weighs less than 5 ounces, then race their...

BRIEFS.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... EAST MANATEE Neal Communities adds staff Neal Communities is growing and recently added new staff members. The include: Thom Boyer, builder, The Harborage on Braden River; Robert Scott, builder assistant, Edenmore in The Country...

BRIEFS.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... EAST MANATEE Sales support cancer awareness The Carlisle Collection, a member of the Susan G. Komen Foundation's Million-Dollar Council, has raised more than $1.1 million in the fight against breast cancer. Ilene Fox is the...

Bad food, sandstorms, terrorists and heat plague Camp Smitty.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: TIMOTHY B. LAWN CORRESPONDENT AL ANBAR, Iraq -- In better times, a sprawling complex here was a minerals processing center employing hundreds of people in the desert. All of the heavy machinery and artillery parts strewn about...

New developments planned for Myakka, Duette.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: CORY SCHOUTEN cory.schouten@heraldtribune.com EAST MANATEE -- County planners are reviewing subdivision proposals that could bring about 90 homes spread over 600 rural acres. The recently filed developments, known as Park...

Hospital celebrates first anniversary in a healthy way.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: STAFF REPORT LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Lakewood Ranch Medical Center selected an appropriate way to celebrate the hospital's first anniversary. The Health & Wellness Expo on Saturday featured health screenings, skin care makeovers and...

Fire district keeps tax rate the same.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: MARI ROBYN JONES robyn.jones@heraldtribune.com EAST MANATEE -- Residents in the East Manatee Fire Rescue District won't have to worry about their fire taxes being raised next year. Fire commissioners at their second budget...

BRIEFS.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Fire station on schedule; district gets federal grant STAFF REPORT MYAKKA CITY -- Construction on Myakka City's second fire station is still running smoothly, and workers are hooking electric and plumbing to the building, said Fire...

Jewish congregations preparing to observe high holy days.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: ABBY WEINGARTEN CORRESPONDENT ***** CORRECTION: The following correction was published on Thursday, October 6, 2005: Correction: A story in the Sept. 29 issue of H-T East Manatee incorrectly referred to a Seder meal as a...

ArtCenter, MCC team up to offer creative classes.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: ABBY WEINGARTEN CORRESPONDENT EAST MANATEE -- The survey said: People in East Manatee want to educe their inner artists. And they don't want to trek cross-county to do it. ArtCenter Manatee staff set up an inquiry booth in...

Sierra Club wants more volunteers like Kelsey Hage.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: ABBY WEINGARTEN CORRESPONDENT EAST MANATEE -- Kelsey Hage sees society from an environmental slant, and her selfless priorities earned her the title of Manatee-Sarasota Sierra Club's "Sierran of the Month" for September. ...

Latin Classic run raises money for scholarships.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: ABBY WEINGARTEN CORRESPONDENT EAST MANATEE -- Any reason to run is usually good, but here's a worthier one: to help the local Hispanic community prosper. This is the objective of the fourth annual Latin Classic Half...

Local Games.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Rummel leads Manatee Invitational victory Lakewood Ranch junior Allen Rummel finished in fifth place with a time of 17 minutes 40.40 seconds on Saturday as the Mustangs won the Manatee Invitational at G.T. Bray...

White becomes Lakewood Ranch's boys golf leader in senior season.(H-T EAST MANATEE)(Column)
September 29, 2005... Byline: Jon Styf Byron White came back. But as for his teammates, most are gone. This season, Lakewood Ranch High's top boys golfer is seeing things a little differently this time around. Last year, he was Mr. Clutch. This...

On a mission; Mustang boys look to state meet after falling short last season.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: JON STYF jon.styf@heraldtribune.com BRADENTON -- Two points. That's all that kept the Lakewood Ranch boys cross country team from the state meet last year. And it's all they remember about the regional run that didn't go as...

Ranch girls finish third.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: JON STYF jon.styf@heraldtribune.com BRADENTON -- They were without their top runner, but the Lakewood Ranch High girls cross country team still finished in third place at Saturday's Manatee Invitational at G.T. Bray Park. ...

McGrew stays patient.(H-T EAST MANATEE)
September 29, 2005... Byline: ALAN DELL CORRESPONDENT EAST MANATEE -- Patience has proven to be more than a virtue for Jacqueline McGrew. The Lakewood Ranch High senior never lost her confidence while playing in the shadow of four older teammates during...

Lakewood Ranch football errs on the side of airing it.(H-T EAST MANATEE)(At Home)(Column)
September 29, 2005... Byline: Alan Dell Numbers don't lie. They can be very blunt and painfully candid. The numbers do not bode well for a Lakewood Ranch High football team that is starving for a regular- season victory it hasn't tasted for 377 days. ...

That old familiar song.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)(Editor's Desk)(Column)
September 29, 2005... Byline: Mark Chapman It all hit home Saturday night in the Suncoast Auditorium at Englewood Community Hospital as the Englewood-Cape Haze Chamber of Commerce partied at its annual banquet. The musical duo Soul Source was playing...

OUR COMMUNITY.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)
September 29, 2005... Mammograms offered The Women's Wellness Center of Englewood Community Hospital and Dr. Raule Verde are offering mammograms in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The test is available to women with no health insurance or...

Cicchella steps up for Mantas volleyball.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)
September 29, 2005... Byline: ALAN DELL CORRESPONDENT Karisa Cicchella has been the mainstay for the Lemon Bay High volleyball team for the past three years. Anytime head coach David Rohrer had a problem, he could count on her to solve it. As a...

Mobile Gardens digging in for fight over access road; Community battling to keep developer from building road through neighborhood.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)
September 29, 2005... Byline: KEVIN DALE kevin.dale@heraldtribune.com When Joyce Shull was looking for a place to escape the Michigan winters, she fell in love with Mobile Gardens. She liked the close-knit community of blue-collar retirees, and she liked...

All the right moves; High school thespians get in the swing of things.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)
September 29, 2005... Byline: AMY ABERN amy.abern@heraldtribune.com Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters are all familiar names to most people born before 1970. Ask the average teen who these people are and most would rush to Google the names...

Lonely but informative Dewey Decimal class.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)(Englewood Scene)(Column)
September 29, 2005... Byline: Sharyn Lonsdale Apparently there are not a lot of home-schoolers out there interested in getting to know the Dewey Decimal System. At the second of three free classes on library skills for home-schoolers at the Elsie Quirk...

Fresh ingredients and patience lead to great-tasting gumbo.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)(Recipe)
September 29, 2005... Byline: AMY HIBBERD CORRESPONDENT Rachael Schleuter loves the Gulf Coast -- just about any part of the Gulf Coast. Her roots run deep in Louisiana, and she has been saddened by the losses from Hurricane Katrina endured by many of her...

Hair salon cuts up for LBHS students.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)
September 29, 2005... Crazy Horse & Company Salon held a cut-a-thon Monday to benefit the Lemon Bay High School Parents Association. The association will use the money for scholarships for LBHS students and to support other school activities, clubs and...

Get your kicks -- and jabs, hooks, squats and push-ups -- with tae-robics.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)
September 29, 2005... If you've never considered that a fill-in-the-blank-aged woman might kick, punch or elbow you in the head, think again. Welcome to tae-robics at Wilson's ATA Black Belt Academy. The class is taught by Melissa Wilson or, on some nights,...

Homecoming is more than football at Lemon Bay.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)
September 29, 2005... Byline: SHARYN LONSDALE sharyn.lonsdale@heraldtribune.com Lemon Bay High School may not be having its greatest football season, but the student council is not going to let that stop them from having a great homecoming this weekend. ...

More students mean more learning opportunities at Vineland.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)
September 29, 2005... Byline: SHARYN LONSDALE sharyn.lonsdale@heraldtribune.com It used to be pretty easy at Vineland Elementary School. Every weekday, students would attend one "specials" class -- art, music, physical education, computers and media center....

New alignment sparks LBHS volleyball team.(H-T ENGLEWOOD)(Playing the Field)(Column)
September 29, 2005... Byline: Alan Dell After switching to a 5-1 alignment, the Lemon Bay High volleyball team went on a roll, finishing last week with a three-game win streak. The spurt gave the Lady Mantas a 3-1 record in district play and pushed them...

Booze sales to kids climb; More Charlotte County businesses than ever get caught in a Sheriff's Office sting.(A SECTION)
September 28, 2005... Byline: ANNA SCOTT anna.scott@heraldtribune.com The number of businesses in Charlotte County caught selling alcohol to minors is at a record high this year despite the community's recent efforts to curb teenage drinking. About 66...

Endangered protections; House bill would emasculate the Endangered Species Act.(A SECTION)(Editorial)
September 28, 2005... Florida has 111 species of animals and plants that are protected by the Endangered Species Act, which faces a serious threat this week on Capitol Hill. House Republicans are attempting to fast-track legislation that would weaken a law...

The illusory gas-tax cut; Politicians' strategy is shortsighted.(A SECTION)(Editorial)
September 28, 2005... Congressman Denny Rehberg probably would be of greater service to Americans right now if he were pumping their gas instead of trying to write their laws. The Montana Republican recently joined two colleagues in the House to introduce a...

Beyond Lynndie England; Rumsfeld, military leaders should be pressed on prisoner abuse.(A SECTION)(Editorial)
September 28, 2005... Congress should not permit Pfc. Lynndie R. England to be a scapegoat for the Pentagon, which has yet to hold people high up in the chain of command responsible for the widespread abuse of military prisoners. On Monday, a military court...

Bulls' pride is running rampant.(SPORTS)(Comment)(Column)
September 28, 2005... Byline: Doug Fernandes SARASOTA -- The people up at the University of South Florida can be excused for their current psychological state. By the way, is frenzied an acceptable clinical diagnosis? The T-shirts went on sale Tuesday...

Wait pays off for Seminoles' Carr; Wide receiver catches on quick with four TD catches in his first two games at Florida State.(SPORTS)
September 28, 2005... Byline: CHRIS MILTON CORRESPONDENT TALLAHASSEE -- At this point last fall, Greg Carr was the odd man out. An athletic, yet relatively unknown recruit, Carr was asked by Florida State coaches to wait until January to enroll because...