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.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission plans to set three traps in Ave Maria beginning Thursday night in efforts to trap bears that have been roaming the community.
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 The Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board elected Jay Roth of Lutgert Insurance to fill the term of former AMU CFO Paul Roney, who resigned from the board earlier this year. The board also approved the budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year that keeps homeowners' assessments unchanged.
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Workers installed the sign for Shamrock Bank Tuesday in preparation for the opening of the Ave Maria branch Aug. 13. The branch will be open Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
A representative of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be giving presentations on "bear awareness" and taking questions at two meetings at The Bean -- one at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8 and the other at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14. All are welcome.
A disreputable charter bus company that still has not paid back Ave Maria University the $18,000 it took in January for buses that never showed up to take students to Washington, DC, is in further hot water after doing the same thing to a Maryland school.
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 Law enforcement officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be out in Ave Maria Friday night as the next step in efforts to deal with the bear who has been roaming the town for the last few months. Town property managers also distributed information on how to reduce the attractiveness of the community to the bear.
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The proposed budget for the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District's coming fiscal year is essentially flat, with no increase in homeowners' assessments. An increase of almost three percent in irrigation fees, however, is being proposed.
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T ara Ladewski, who has brightened the Queen Mary Pub in Ave Maria since it opened almost three years ago, is moving up north in August. She'll be at the pub Thursday evening -- not working for a change -- if people want to stop by to wish her well.
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