TITUSVILLE - Summer not only wilts fresh
produce; it also dries up attendance at some area farmers markets. They have
decided to take a break during the hottest time of the year.
TITUSVILLE - Titusville residents will soon
receive a report in the mail about the city’s water quality. The 2007
Annual Drinking Water Quality Report, The Water We Drink, will be mailed to
each billing customer through July.
TITUSVILLE - Not many things are more American
than fireworks on Independence Day. This year, for the first time,
Titusville and Port St. John are combining their fireworks celebrations into
one bigger, better event.
TITUSVILLE - Area children enrolled in the Bone
Diggers archaeology camp recently took part in a dig, discovering artifacts
in the process. The fourth- to sixth-grade campers didn’t travel to
Egypt or some faraway land. They went no farther than BCC’s Titusville
campus ...
Video games may be just what the doctor ordered,
especially for strengthen-ing muscles and balance, researchers say. The
technology also is finding a niche for patients in role-playing games that
encourage healthy life-style choices. The three major health care
providers in Brevard County have gotten into the act ...
PORT ST. JOHN - The Port St. John Black Belt
Academy has produced six award winners in taekwondo, the art of hand and
foot fighting. The students, with ages ranging from 8 to 16,
participate in different categories to demonstrate their skills ...
The Dale Odham Second Annual Memorial Golf
Tournament is set for an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start at the Royal Oak Country
Club in Titusville on Saturday, July 12.
TITUSVILLE
- Every child is a winner at Upward Basketball, a nationally recognized
sports program, coming to Park Avenue Baptist Church. Designed for
boys and girls in kindergarten through sixth grade, the program is
evangelistic, but non-denominational and open to the community.
Athletes
from eight North and Central Brevard Little League organizations will step
to the plate this week in search of the summer’s first big prize — the
District 22 All-Stars championship. The district All-Stars tournaments
are the first step in a multi-tiered postseason format ...
TITUSVILLE
- It’s been a 20-year journey for John Hartman from his basement in Indiana
to gymnasiums across Florida, but the founder of the Mighty Mites Wrestling
Club said if he can interest one child in the sport, his efforts will be
worthwhile.
TITUSVILLE - The Pilot Club of Titusville
recently celebrated its 51st anniversary by handing out $4,000 in 11
mini-grants, benefiting youth and seniors in the area.
Another land buy that's in the works that the
committee will look at soon is a proposal to buy land in Scottsmoor. That
deal was rejected by county commissioners in January after criticism that
the $24.2 million price was more than twice what the owners paid for the
land in 2004 and 2005.
Travelers soon could lodge at a new Holiday Inn
off Interstate 95 in Titusville, if Army engineers allow wetlands about the
size of two football fields to be filled.
This mystery starts in 1977 with eerie lights, a
frightening night and William Deffendall of Titusville, who works for an
industrial cleaning contractor at Kennedy Space Center.
A state agency placed a plot of scrub land
slated for residential development near the top of a list of conservation
projects, thanks to the efforts of a pair of Titusville women.
Captains Mike Mann and Brandon Barlow were
fortunate to have caught their winning fish early in the morning ...
Their two reds with a total weight of 14.42 pounds were the winning
combination in the Titusville stop of the IFA Redfish Tour this Saturday.
Assessed
penalties from Florida's top environmental cops rose to $170,690 in Brevard,
up 71 percent. Often, top fines here and elsewhere go against those expected
to guard the environment: local governments and state and federal agencies.
TITUSVILLE
-- Louise May loved and doted on her three dogs, her neighbors said. But
police said two of them mauled and killed the 74-year-old Thursday.
Police said May was found dead at her Elliot Avenue residence by her son
after he returned from work Thursday afternoon.
TITUSVILLE -
During space shuttle launches, Bill and Donna Hamilton of Titusville put the
vacant riverside lot they own to good use. By asking for donations to park,
the couple has been raising funds for the American Cancer Society for the
past two years.
Parents and community members praised Brevard
Public Schools' teachers and leaders, but argued too much emphasis is placed
on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, according to a recent online
survey conducted by the district.
Fishermen are still reeling in grouper and
snapper off Brevard faster than the fish can reproduce, raising the
likelihood of a temporary ban on catching those popular species.
Shuttle pad repairs will cost almost $3 million
but be complete by August, NASA says. Technicians will work two
10-hour shifts a day for the next two weeks to clear debris and damaged
bricks from the pad's flame trench, which was torn up during the May 31
launch of shuttle Discovery.
The Terriers are one of 33 teams from across
Florida competing in the Adidas 7-on-7 Tournament at the University of
Central Florida on Saturday and Sunday.
Astronaut varsity basketball coach Gregg
Hostetler said that the school’s JV and varsity squads both turned in
outstanding performances at the Stetson Team Camp in DeLand and the Florida
Girls Basketball Camp at Seminole Community College in Lake Mary.
Taxpayers will soon spend about $3.4 million to
build a new Veterans Memorial Fishing Pier in Titusville that would make it
hard for many disabled vets to fish. For that, thank Florida
building-code rules for pier railings, which pose barriers to people in
wheelchairs.
Florida Power & Light Co. reaffirmed Wednesday
its plans to build a 10 megawatt solar power plant about 1 mile south of the
space center’s visitor complex by early 2010.
A swath of northern Brevard County is second in
the state for the most lightning strikes. Brevard County averages more
than 22,000 strikes per year, with most coming in June, July and August.
Legislation that would add an extra shuttle
mission to NASA's schedule and an extra $1 billion to its budget was
approved Tuesday by a Senate panel. The bill now heads to the full Senate,
where it is expected to pass as easily as a similar bill approved by the
House, 409-15, last week.
The city's proposed residential treatment
facility ordinance drew no public comment at its first hearing Tuesday
night, even after the fervor that surrounded a similar issue two months ago.
Karen Fyke Kirchel, author of “Irrepressible
Lucie Archer”, began her career as a paralegal. After getting married in
2004, she decided to pursue life as a children’s librarian at the Titusville
Public Library.
Two Port St. John teens claimed to set a new
Guinness World Record for gaming. Nick Ray, 18, and Mat White, 19,
have been playing Halo 3 since noon Monday at the Best Western Oceanfront in
Cocoa Beach.
MIMS - Thirty-six Little League baseball and
softball teams are working hard this month in preparation for the first big
postseason tournament of the summer — the District 22 All-Stars.
Brevard Public Schools will lose an additional
$10 million from its operating budget, after already cutting $27.4 million
that left district officials with no fat left to trim.
A rally aimed at drawing attention to the plight
of spaceflight drew far less than expected. But the crowd appreciated the
friend they had in Sen. Bill Nelson.
Florida Power & Light says the plant needs to be
up and running by 2011 to keep enough power in reserve while it replaces two
1960s era, oil and natural gas plants in Brevard County and Riviera Beach.
Titusville will likely look at crafting an
ordinance that would allow dogs at restaurants in the city. The owners
of Outer Marker Café at Space Coast Regional Airport have petitioned the
city to enact a “doggie dining” ordinance.
The Inshore Fishing Association (IFA) Redfish
Tour makes a stop in Titusville on Saturday. Tournament registration
will be at Mosquito Lagoon Outfitters from 5-7 p.m. Friday with the
captains' meeting to follow. The tournament gets under way at Parrish Park
at safe light on Saturday.
The
average full-time worker can afford housing in Titusville, but the working
poor, those earning 50 percent of the median income, still can't afford to
buy the average house or rent the average apartment, officials said.
One solution: subsidies to developers to build housing that allows them to
offer cut-rate rents and mortgages.
Closed Roadhouse Grill restaurants in Melbourne and
Titusville are preparing to reopen under new ownership. Ken Adams, a
restaurant entrepreneur from the Atlanta area, plans to reopen the Roadhouse
Grill at 3355 Columbia Blvd. off Interstate 95 in Titusville this week,
perhaps as early as today. The restaurant will be renamed Roadhouse
Grill South ...
NASA
and the Air Force are splitting their base support contract into 15 pieces,
casting the futures of thousands of workers into doubt. The switchover
will set the stage for the next decade of civil, commercial and military
launch operations on the Space Coast.
The
Brevard County sheriff's proposed $108.8 million budget for next year would
eliminate 20 positions, but cause no layoffs. The fourth inmate tent at the
jail would not be opened for at least another year.
