The Donahue Shamrocks opened their eight-man football season with a convincing win over Eastland Christian in Orlando.
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Coach Rich Scanlon says there are a lot of reasons to be excited about the new Donahue Shamrocks eight-man football season which begins Friday night with a game against Eastland Christian in Orlando.
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 Chris Smith (left), who just moved to Ave Maria with his family from Jackson, Mich., is the academy's fourth headmaster in as many years and his staff has about a dozen new teachers.
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 Mercedes Cox, who served as an administrative assistant in the Academic Affairs deartment of AMU for many years, has died at age 69 after battling cancer. There will be a funeral mass celebrated by Fr. Matthew Lamb at the Ave Maria oratory at noon, August 20.
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Swimmers from the Ave Maria club finished third in the Paradise Coast Swimming Conference championships in Naples last weekend in just their third year of competition.
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[UPDATED] The ABA has notified the law school of its "failure to comply with ABA accreditation standards" regarding its admissions policies and practices. The school remains accredited but needs to take "specific remedial actions."
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Home sales in Ave Maria are continuing at a record pace, with more than 200 homes sold in the first seven months of the year. Work has started on a new section of arterial road Anthem Parkway, the Maple Ridge Amenities Center has been announced, new businesses are slated to open and several current ones are expanding. (pictured, an artist rendering the new Maple Ridge amenities center)
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The process leading to directly electing at least one seat on the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District will take at least an extra month due to a need to revise a map showing the amount of "urban area," the district supervisors were told at their monthly meeting Tuesday. The board also voted to approve the budget for the coming fiscal year.
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The budget for the next fiscal year, which keeps assessments on residents flat, will be discussed and voted on at the meeting of the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board Tuesday, Aug. 2. Also at the meeting, the district's engineer will present maps showing the percentage of "urban area" in the district, a calculation that will be used to determine the number of board seats that will be directly elected.
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They were among the town's first residents, opened one of the town center's first businesses, and touched countless residents in numerous ways. They are moving to Ohio with the love and prayers of scores of residents who packed the newly-constructed parish center Sunday to bid them godspeed.
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Different pictures of the type of relationship that was originally envisioned between Ave Maria University and the Donahue Academy have emerged in statements made by the chair of the Donahue board of directors and former director Brian Lawe, who has filed a lawsuit charging AMU with improperly manipulating Donahue's finances.
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 Legatus, an organization for Catholic executives founded by Tom Monaghan, is moving its headquarters back to its original home in Michigan and has named Stephen Henley (right) as its new executive director.
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A majority of the board of the Rhodora J. Donahue Academy in Ave Maria acted improperly by putting the interest of Ave Maria University ahead of the interests of the K-12 Catholic school, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed in the Collier County Circuit Court on behalf of former Donahue Board member Brian Lawe and William LaMothe, a philanthropist living in Ave Maria.
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Lily Northon won a silver medal at the AAU Taekwondo national championships in Fort Lauderdale, and five other students at the Martial Arts Fitness Academy of Ave Maria took home bronze medals.
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About 650 people flocked to the Ave Maria water park on the 4th of July for special festivities. Some arrived as part of the town's first Independence Day bike parade.
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A bike parade followed by a celebration at the water park highlight events in Ave Maria marking Independence Day.
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Voters who participated in a special referendum in Ave Maria voted overwhelmingly Monday to put the town on a path to directly elect one or more members of the board of the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District.
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Residents of Ave Maria have their own referendum Monday, and will decide whether to change the way supervisors are chosen for the five-member board of the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District. Voting is between noon and 6 p.m. in the office of the Ave Maria Master Association in the town center.
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Just a month after the board of the Donahue Academy of Ave Maria told parents it was pleased that Headmaster Mark Jahnke would return in that position next year, the board said that instead it would search for a new headmaster and Mr. Jahnke would return to teaching at the K-12 Catholic school.
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 Ave Maria high school student JP Klucik is off to New York to participate in a one-week Summer Leadership Experience program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The program accepts only a fifth of the 5,000 high school juniors who apply.
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