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Ave Maria School of Law graduates posted the best rate of passage of the Florida bar exam since the school moved to Florida, with 75.3 percent of those taking the test for the first time last July passing. The law school has lagged well behind other schools in previous years.
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The AMU Gyrenes dropped their season opener at Birmingham Southern College 61-14 while the Donahue Academy Shamrocks improved to 4-1 on the season, shutting out Miami Christian 48-0 at North Park in Ave Maria. Above, Gyrenes pursue Isaac Nichols, who scored four TDs for BSC.
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The Donahue Academy junior varsity 7-man football squad improved to 2-0 on the season Friday, beating Nicaea 13-0 in a game at North Park in Ave Maria. Above, Johnpaul Klucik running for a touchdown with less than a minute to play.
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 Ave Maria University has announced a record enrollment of almost 900 undergraduate students for the fall term, an increase of more than 20 percent from the previous fall.
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 Ave Maria University is taking a number of actions regarding black bears that have been spotted on campus. The university says Florida Fish and Wildlife officials are committed to new efforts to trap the bears, and a workshop open to residents is scheduled for Saturday morning that will focus on specifics of dealing with the bears.
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The Donahue Shamrocks notched their second shutout of the seaon Friday night, beating Hollywood Christian 28-0 in a seven-man football game played in Hollywood. The win improved the Shamrocks to 3-1 on the season.
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Ave Maria University held its opening Mass Friday with Bishop Frank Dewane as the principal celebrant. The university has had a substantial increase in enrollment and now has more than 850 undergraduate students.
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Ave Maria University won its first football game ever Saturday, beating Cape Coast Sports Academy 41-0 in an exhibition game. The Donahue Academy Shamrocks lost their first game this season, falling 48-33 to Canterbury, last year's state champs.
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Rain and high winds were forecast to continue through Tuesday, but Ave Maria and most of southwest Florida were spared the worst from Isaac as the storm tracked farther west. As a precaution, classes were canceled for Monday at Donahue Academy, Ave Maria University and Collier County schools.
The Donahue Academy Shamrocks shut out Community Christian 52-0 Saturday night in a seven-man football game in Port Charlotte.
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J ohn S. Schmitt, the main founder of Trivium School in Lancaster, MA, died Wednesday night at age 84. Many current and former Ave Maria University students attended Trivium, which offered a Catholic classical curriculum for grades 7-12.
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 The Ave Maria Dance Academy is adding tumbling to its growing list of classes. The new tumbling instructor, Michael Balcom (right), along with other instructors, will be at the academy's open house at its studio in the town center Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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On foot and on bikes, by bus, car and golf cart, a record 267 students in grades K-12 arrived at the Rhodora J. Donahue Academy in Ave Maria Monday for the first day of school.
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The Oil Well Rd. project is finally completed, but many are still scratching their heads over why the road goes from four lanes at Immokalee Rd., narrows to two lanes at Everglades Blvd., then widens to six lanes approaching Ave Maria. The mystery is explained in Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette's most recent column in the Naples Daily News Collier Citizen.
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The Shamrocks dominated Nicaea 33-18 in the opening game of their seven-man football season at North Park in Ave Maria Saturday night.
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The Donahue Academy Shamrocks open their football season at home Saturday with many new faces on the team, and an extra man on the field as the sport has evolved from sixman football to having seven players on each side. Above, Coach Rich Scanlon preparing his players for the opener against Nicaea Academy at 7 p.m. Saturday at North Park in Ave Maria.
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Jim Coletta, who was first elected to the Collier County Commission 12 years ago, was soundly defeated Tuesday by Tim Nance in the race for the district 5 seat that includes Ave Maria. With almost all votes counted, Mr. Nance received about 65 percent of the vote. In another race of local interest, with more than 90 percent of the vote counted in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Ave Maria resident Marielena Stuart was last of four candidates with about seven percent. Connie Mack won with almost 60 percent of the vote and will face incumbent Bill Nelson in November.
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Shamrock Bank opened its long-awaited branch in Ave Maria Monday with an official ribbon cutting and a welcome event for residents and the local business community.
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Four Ave Maria residents met Congressman Paul Ryan -- now Mitt Romney's pick for VP -- last week in Naples when he made a campaign stop at the Naples library headquarters on behalf of congressional candidate Chauncey Goss. Flanking Mr. Ryan are Joe and Andrew Guernsey, with Gabe Allan (L) and Michael John Dauphinais.
Choice Environmental Services, which picks up trash in all Ave Maria communities, agreed Friday morning that garbage would not be collected until 8 a.m., two hours later than it has been, Monica Villa of Ave Maria Development announced. The extra time will make it easier for residents to get garbage out in the morning, instead of the night before which can attract bears. Three traps were set Thursday night, but no bears have yet been caught.
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