Ballroom Dance
at 7:30 p.m. at North
Brevard Senior Center, Titusville. Music by
"2’s Company". Door prizes. Cost $6 person includes snacks and
setups (BYOB). Info: (321) 268-2333.
October 25th
Flea Market from 8 a.m. until 12 noon at
North
Brevard Senior Center, 909 Lane Avenue, Titusville. One
8-ft. table provided per rental space for $15. Coffee, tea &
pastries on sale for small fee. Call 321-268-9530 for info or
to register.
Tropical Storm Hanna changed its mind and is headed toward
South and Central Florida. A ridge of high pressure that was to keep
Hanna south of the state appears to be weaker or moving east faster than
originally predicted ...
CAPE CANAVERAL - Nearly half of government shuttle workers
worry about their future after the planned 2010 retirement of the fleet,
internal agency documents show.
TITUSVILLE, FL - Brevard County’s free
prescription drug discount cards are now available at Parrish Medical
Center. The prescription drug discount card offers savings of up to 20
percent on medicine.
Terriers escaped with a 17-6 mistake-filled
victory against Orlando Colonial Friday night in a preseason game at Al
Werneke Field. The teams combined for five turnovers, with two
Colonial blunders leading to both Titusville touchdowns ...
Astronaut found its weaknesses in a 21-9
preseason loss to Tampa Jefferson on Friday. Be assured the Astronaut
football team will be focusing on pass defense and red zone efficiency after
a 21-9 loss to the Dragons on Friday.
With its big-play offense seemingly already in
midseason form, Treasure Coast easily beat Space Coast 33-8 during Friday
night's exhibition matchup and in the process spoiled coach Rodney
Torrence's Space Coast debut.
Fay's cleanup has just begun as yet another
tropical storm aims toward Brevard County. The National Hurricane
Center's five-day forecast track put the storm about 500 miles off Florida's
east coast by Tuesday morning.
A proposed convenience store and gas station
won’t be built on South Street after the council denied a permit to allow
the business, concerned about its compatibility with the neighborhood.
TITUSVILLE - Michael and Meredith Cornish of
Titusville always knew they wanted to adopt children. This hope
remained as son, Kristopher was born in 2004, then daughter, Brianna in
2006, born with Down syndrome and an associated heart defect. The joy she
brought, helped set the course of her parents’ adoption journey.
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – When it comes time to retire,
it might be time to downsize at home, too. After all, who wants to clean all
those empty-nester rooms, maintain the lawn
All but one of Brevard County's 18
football-playing high schools will see their first game action tonight
during their respective preseason contests. Like most Brevard County
coaches, Titusville High football coach Bobby Guthrie believes canceled
practices have hurt his team.
Shuttle Atlantis' rollout to Kennedy Space
Center's launch pad 39A is being delayed until at least Tuesday to give
engineers time to sort out problems that cropped up this week when they
tried to join the spaceship and an external tank.
TITUSVILLE - City officials are considering a
proposal to make it easier for churches and places that sell alcoholic
beverages to coexist in Titusville's downtown area and shopping centers. But
the proposal also would spread them out further from one another in other
parts of the city.
A Titusville man
who allegedly kidnapped a teenager and took her to North Carolina receives
60 days for a violation of probation charge. He still faces a felony
violation of probation charge ...
TITUSVILLE - Titusville High School’s junior
varsity team will take the field for the fourth quarter against visiting
Orlando Colonial in a preseason Kickoff Classic game on Friday at Al Werneke
Field.
TITUSVILLE - Tropical Storm Fay may have slowed
down volleyball tryouts last week at North Brevard schools, but the storm
did nothing to quell the surge of rising junior varsity players.
Africanized honeybees that first infested
Brevard County about a year ago are turning up more often and, to those
allergic, could pose a serious threat. If you see them, run. Africanized
bees' defensiveness and more-hidden hives usually give them away,
distinguishing them from the less-aggressive European bees that inhabit
North America.
Council member Jim Tulley ousted Mayor Ron Swank
in Tuesday's primaries with more than 50 percent of the vote. Tulley
scored a majority of the votes against three opponents, removing from office
Swank, who won his last two elections with more than 60 percent of the vote.
Democrat Robin Fisher and Republican Roger
Shealy won their primaries Tuesday in the race for the Brevard County
Commission's District 1 seat. The winners will take on Libertarian
Ilene Davis in the Nov. 4 general election.
As residents learned they can apply for FEMA
assistance, floodwaters continued to lap up roads and threaten homes in
North Brevard. As the St. Johns rose, state troopers closed State Road
46 at about 7 p.m. Tuesday at Hatbill Road in Mims.
Hurricane Gustav swept through southwestern
Haiti on Tuesday and headed for the Gulf of Mexico, bringing with it bad
news for the Gulf Coast states, but good news for Florida.
The seventh tropical storm of the season,
Gustav, was expected to make landfall in the Dominican Republic by about 2
p.m. today. Gustav has the potential to visit Florida.
Students will make up the four school days lost
during Tropical Storm Fay, unless more specific direction is given from
Florida Department of Education, Brevard Public Schools officials said
Monday.
TITUSVILLE - Shanterra Farmer was all smiles
Monday as she snapped photos of her 5-year-old son, Tayshawn, sitting with
his classmates, as she sat through a parent orientation afterward.
Shuttle Atlantis will head to the launch pad
this weekend as NASA engineers press ahead with plans to launch a Hubble
Space Telescope servicing mission on Oct. 8.
The rise wasn't large -- it represented just
five more homes sold than in June -- and it was coupled with a decline in
median home price ... but the local real estate market sees the movement as
encouraging.
President Bush on Sunday declared Brevard County
and three other Florida counties major disaster areas, freeing up federal
funding to repair roads, parks, sewer systems and other public
infrastructure damaged by Tropical Storm Fay.
The St. Johns River could hit Central Florida
this week with some of the worst flooding on record. "Geneva, Astor
and other areas will see moderate and major flooding," ...
As of the middle of July, nearly $1.5 million
had been poured into races for countywide offices, such as sheriff, tax
collector and county commissioner
At Titusville High, where the pool overflowed --
the infrastructure will be able to support practice beginning today -- head
coach Natasha Kremer's concerns center about her new athletes.
With Tropical Storm Fay in the rearview mirror
and Tuesday's primary election looming ahead, congressional candidates for
two local seats are putting the pedal to the metal with last-minute
campaigning.
3 major companies make county 'world
renowned' in gun industry
Sales of small arms and ammunition surged 21
percent last year to $2.8 billion. That sales bump echoed all the way
to Brevard County, where a sliver of the nation's small-arms industry has
quietly thrived, earning accolades from the military, law enforcement
representatives and gun enthusiasts.
Damage assessment teams completed their survey
of Brevard County on Friday as Gov. Charlie Crist asked President Bush to
make residents eligible for federal financial assistance.
TITUSVILLE - Motorists trying to go west on
Country Club Drive from Hopkins Avenue will find their path blocked for the
second day in a row, as crews continue to pump floodwaters out of the
intersection.
Boeing Co. is considering bailing out of a
politically charged competition for a $35 billion contract to build aerial
refueling tankers for the Air Force, if it does not receive an additional
four months from the Pentagon to assemble its offer.
