All but 10 of
Brevard's 92 public and charter schools scored at or above the state's
standard 3.5 score on the FCAT Writing Plus essay, and almost two-thirds met
the district's tougher goal of 4 out of 6. Last year, all but
11 schools met the state standard.
This year's World's Greatest Baby Shower will be
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the new Parrish Healthcare
Center, 5005 Port St. John Parkway, Port St. John
Shuttle Discovery is cooperating with efforts to
launch May 31. In fact, commander Mark Kelly said Thursday morning
that the orbiter is in excellent shape, with few of the nagging technical
problems that often show up just before launch.
PORT ST. JOHN - The family and friends of a
28-year-old Port St. John man killed May 9 last year will gather at 7:30
tonight at 4395 Kings Highway for a prayer vigil.
A Brevard County sheriff's deputy returrned to
work Thursday morning after being bitten by a police dog during the
apprehension of two burglary suspects at a business in Titusville.
Brevard County Manager Peggy Busacca and Fire
Chief Bill Farmer should be replaced for mismanaging the fire department,
County Commissioner Helen Voltz said Thursday.
The push for increased funding for NASA
continues in Congress, with witnesses testifying that the agency does not
have enough money to do all of its assigned tasks.
Titusville men are in the Brevard County Jail
complex in Sharpes this morning after police say they were arrested in the
act of committing a burglary at a vacant commercial building.
When Titusville missionary Joe Hurston heard
initial reports that 350 people were killed in a cyclone that slammed into
Myanmar on Saturday, he knew the numbers were wrong.
No one was injured when an airplane had to make
a hard landing at Arthur Dunn Airpark in Titusville Tuesday morning.
Titusville firefighters and emergency responders were on the scene, but
Division Chief Scott Gaenicke said the two people on board were OK.
A volunteer assistant baseball coach at
Titusville High pleaded not guilty Monday to allegations that he threw an
open house party where minors were served beer, court records show.
TITUSVILLE - Love skateboarding or a skater?
Then you’ll love Liberation Skateboard Ministry at Park Avenue Baptist
Church. The ministry is coordinated by Brad Russell, senior high pastor and
Richie Lord, junior high pastor.
Superintendent
Richard DiPatri submits $3.5 million in suggested budget cuts to the Brevard
County School Board. A total of $21.3 million will be struck from the
operating budget by June.
Brevard County
commissioners authorized a voluntary buyout program that could be
implemented as early as this summer, if budget cuts call for large numbers
of layoffs among their 2,400 full-time employees.
TITUSVILLE - Local residents know Dixie
Crossroads as the place to go to nibble on rock shrimp, and the Blue Heron
Water Reclamation Facility as the place to catch sight of hawks wheeling
across the sky.
The Brevard Alzheimer's Foundation is raffling
another muscle car to raise money for programs at three centers in Brevard
County. It is the 15th year for the raffle, which is expected to raise
$300,000 this year.
It would be impossible for a law enforcement
officer to be involved in every aspect of crime prevention at the same time.
Brevard County residents, however, can have that experience, albeit
vicariously.
Florida Power & Light Co. gave Port St. John a
$1 billion boost this week: a planned high-efficiency natural gas plant that
could help lessen the economic hit from the shuttle program's end.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - About 1,000 spectators
watched as four veterans of the space program were inducted into the U.S.
Astronaut Hall of Fame this afternoon at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at
Kennedy Space Center.
After a predawn rollout Saturday, Discovery sits
on launch pad 39A, awaiting its 35th mission -- the most of any shuttle.
Discovery is on a construction mission to the International Space Station.
It will deliver the 32,500-pound, 37-foot Japanese Kibo laboratory.
As many as seven Brevard schools [including
Astronaut HS] could receive higher grades this year after the Florida Board
of Education adjusted a portion of the state grading formula.
Repeated false alarms at a Titusville
condominium complex led residents to just ignore the fire warning system
when it sounds. Many said it was neighbors' screams to get out -- not
the fire alarms -- that made them hustle from their homes just before 5 a.m.
TITUSVILLE - Investigators from the state
Department of Transportation are asking prosecutors to look at the
circumstances surrounding a $1.7 million state grant that was spent on a
terminal that was never built at Space Coast Regional Airport to see whether
criminal charges are warranted.
Four distinguished astronauts from the shuttle
era join the ranks of the Astronaut Hall of Fame today. The four make
up the seventh group of shuttle astronauts named to the Hall of Fame.
The public is invited to the induction ceremony. It will be included with
admission to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Lawmakers fulfilled their only constitutional
mandate Friday by passing a $66.2 billion balanced budget that reflected the
spiraling economy and plunging state revenue.
U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney continues to pay a
Baltimore-based firm to help him with an ongoing federal inquiry into his
ties with imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Cocoa’s Blair Wiggins and Titusville’s Travis
Tanner had another big day, landing two redfish weighing 15 pounds, 9 ounces
on Friday to lead the Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series Eastern event in Panama
City.
