| For seven weeks during March and April, Zhanras, a restaurant known for its innovative pizza recipes, has been selling pizzas made according to recipes created by students in four local elementary schools. R.B. Hunt, Osceola, Ketterlinus and Cathedral Parish elementary schools participated in the fundraiser. Nearly 800 students submitted recipes for pizzas made of ingredients from a large list supplied by Zhanras. |
| The magnificent author and son of the Great Santini, Pat Conroy, began "The Prince of Tides" with these words: "My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call." |
| The St. Augustine City Commission will make a decision soon that could ease the process for new construction in the historic preservation districts. |
| I guess this was a tough day for basketball superstar LeBron James. He's being blamed for the Cavaliers' relatively early exit from the playoffs, and at the same time several cities are begging for his future presence, including Cleveland. If he leaves the Cavs now, he'll be blamed for the heavy dose of losing that will surely follow. If he stays and still doesn't win the title, he'll be ridiculed for not placing himself in the right situation or not being good enough to carry a team to a championship. I wouldn't mind trading paychecks with LeBron, but I don't want his burden. Stuart Korfhage |
| CLERMONT — One bad inning and one very good pitcher ended a record ride for the Bartram Trail softball team on Friday.
The Bears’ quest for three consecutive softball state championships ended with a 3-0 loss to Naples in the Class 4A state semifinals at the National Training Center. Bartram had no answer for pitcher Jaclyn Traina, an Alabama signee, who took a perfect game into the seventh and struck out 16. She settled for her second consecutive one-hitter and a spot in today’s title game against Dunnellon. |
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CAPE CANAVERAL — Space shuttle Atlantis thundered away on its final voyage to orbit Friday, hoisting an experienced crew of six and a full shipment of space station gear.
CAPE CANAVERAL — Space shuttle Atlantis thundered away on its final voyage to orbit Friday, hoisting an experienced crew of six and a full shipment of space station gear.
Atlantis sped through a perfectly clear afternoon sky, blazing a trail over the Atlantic before huge crowds eager to catch one of the few remaining shuttle launches.
Its destination is the International Space Station, which was soaring over the South Pacific at the time of liftoff. The shuttle should catch up with the orbiting complex and its six residents Sunday. |
| Rick Davidson sat in his wheelchair and looked approvingly at his beloved 1967 Camaro drag racer. The 582-cubic-inch Merlin III Big Block engine burst to life with a staccato exhaust that shook the driveway and rattled windows. To Davidson, who has owned the car since he was in the 10th grade, the sound was like music. |
| LONDON (AP) — World stock markets and the euro fell today on worries that Europe's fiscal austerity measures and stubbornly high unemployment in the U.S. will slow down the global economic recovery.
Britain's FTSE 100 slid 1.1 percent to 5,372.75, Germany's DAX dropped 0.6 percent to 6,212.57 and the CAC-40 in France was down 1.9 percent at 3,659.65. |
| TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Charlie Crist has already alienated the Republican-controlled Legislature on three fronts, and a fourth emerged Thursday when he said he is likely to veto dozens of special projects in lawmakers' districts as part of the state's $70.4 billion budget.
The growing resentment between Crist and lawmakers began when he vetoed a bill re-creating so-called leadership funds -- major fundraising machines under the control of a few legislators. |
| When you reach the age of 90, the sky's the limit. |
| ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- The shoreline has been increasingly encroaching on Vilano Beach, but frustrated residents and coastal engineers remain at odds over what, if anything, should be done. At a meeting of the St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District on Tuesday, officials from the Army Corps of Engineers laid out their plan for dredging St. Augustine Inlet and pumping sand onto St. Augustine Beach. |
| A St. Augustine couple were arrested Tuesday and charged with stealing $33,000 worth of vases from a cemetery and attempting to sell them to a salvage yard. |
| Anastasia Mosquito Control District officials looked more tired than joyful Tuesday morning after the St. Johns County Commission, in two votes, approved a zoning and land use change that clears the way to build the district's proposed $2 million, 8,000-square-foot headquarters on 9.2 acres off State Road 16. |
| District 3 School Board member Bill Mignon is the new chairman of the St. Johns County School Board following the board's annual reorganization Tuesday night. |
| The prosecution wants to put jurors behind the wheel of the same model car in which a baby died of heat exhaustion this summer to bolster their argument that the child's father must have known she was seated near him. |
| A person playing the United Nations delegate from Iran speaking at Pedro Menendez High School this weekend promised that his country was not developing nuclear weapons -- but even if it was, Iran was within its rights. |
| The St. Johns County Commission meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the County Auditorium, 500 San Sebastian View. |
| If ever a group of actors lived by the creed "The show must go on," it was the William C. Forbes acting troupe. |
| St. Johns County middle school students will soon find themselves on playing fields throughout the county, thanks to a group of determined parents, residents and officials. |
| This is a story of two businesses, one that decided against locating in St. Johns County and one that wishes it hadn't built here. |
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| The St. Augustine/Ketterlinus High School Alumni Association Inc. has initiated the St. Augustine High School Archive Project to gather and preserve documents, pictures and items that represent the history of St. Augustine High School and Ketterlinus High School. |
| A recent article in The Record on invasive green mussels stated that, "UF cautions against eating mussels gathered from just anywhere because they can be contaminated by pollutants or algal blooms." However, in the same article, a source was quoted as saying that "anywhere you harvest shrimp or oysters, I don't know why you couldn't harvest these" (green mussels). |
| For those of you who don't read the various wire reports as they roll in, you might not realize how quickly the opinions pour in. But by the time Saturday's Preakness was two hours past its finish, I was seeing columns about how racing is being hurt by not having a Triple Crown winner. It's so predictable. Horse racing has been hurt by many things, the least of which is the lack of a Triple Crown horse. The real culprit is competition. Thirty years ago, NBA arenas held 15,000 fans and didn't have luxury boxes, and Yankee Stadium was just a big old ballpark. Heck, more than a dozen major sports franchises had yet to be born. Racing will never return to the days of Seabiscuit, but if you can still get 100,000 people out to big races, I'd say the sport can survive. Stuart Korfhage |
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| The Ponte Vedra baseball team rallied from a 4-2 deficit in the seventh inning Friday night to defeat Wakulla 8-4 in the Class 4A regional finals. The Sharks will play Tampa Jesuit at 10 a.m. Friday in Port St. Lucie.
Elliott Warford pitched a complete game for the victory.
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| CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — An experienced crew of astronauts boarded space shuttle Atlantis on Friday for its final journey, a delivery trip to the International Space Station that will provide fresh batteries and extra room.
Atlantis was slated to blast off at 2:20 p.m. Everything was going well in the countdown, and the weather was looking favorable. Forecasters were sticking with their 70 percent odds of good weather. Clouds were the lone concern. |
| You might think the second-generation Nissan Murano is not much different from the first because it has a strong visual connection. Once you’re behind the wheel, though, it’s clear that the 2010 is more refined and sophisticated.
When the company redesigned the Murano for the 2009 model year, it chose what it called “evolution on a grand scale.” The new model was to be “curvaceous modern art” that had a “premium driving feel” and an interior that was as inviting as a “premium suite” without forgoing a strong visual connection to the previous model. Mission accomplished. |
| CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — NASA is fueling space shuttle Atlantis for its final journey.
Atlantis is set to blast off Friday afternoon with six astronauts and a load of supplies for the International Space Station.
Forecasters say there's a 70 percent chance the weather will cooperate. Launch time is 2:20 p.m.
Fueling operations began before dawn Friday, just as the astronauts were waking up. |
| In John 31:34 we read, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have love you, that you also love one another." |
| The recent Life Services banquet was marked by a standing ovation for guest speaker Michael Clancy. |
| Wendy W. Berger, who replaced retiring St. Johns Circuit Judge Robert K. Mathis in 2005, has submitted her application to fill a vacancy in the First District Court of Appeal. |
| After four years of planning and working to get funding, the state-of-the-art The Players Championship Boys & Girls Club, named after its largest benefactor, will break ground today. Groundbreaking is scheduled for 3 p.m. at 555 W. King St., West Augustine and is open to the public. |
| The prosecution went to great, often painful, lengths Tuesday in arguing that a father's "gross" negligence caused his 23-month-old daughter's death and that he should be found guilty of manslaughter. |
| ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- Half an hour after the ribbon cutting, a handful of people stood on the new boardwalk on the city's Maratea property, one of the few swaths of untouched land left on the beachside here. |
| A teenager whose arm was allegedly broken by a Hastings Youth Academy guard using "brutal, excessive force" has filed a lawsuit against the state and the company that operates the facility, his attorney said Monday. |
| Erik, 16, the latest among local Boy Scouts of America Troop 274 to earn Eagle Scout, the Boy Scout's highest honor. He was pinned at a Sunday ceremony held at the Good News Church, which sponsors the troop. |
| A woman, who fell or jumped from the State Road 312 bridge into the Matanzas River Sunday morning, survived the incident and was taken to Flagler Hospital, said St. Johns County Fire Rescue Spokesman Jeremy Robshaw. |
| J. Walter Haley, Florida Memorial College, class of 1965, remembers when the students of the black college had to come to school armed. |
| "The Awakening of St. Augustine" by Thomas Graham, may be one of the most overlooked history books about our city. Graham, a history professor (now retired) at Flagler College, wrote the book in 1978. |
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