Midget AA Lightning strike gold!
The Saugeen Maitland Lightning Midget AA women’s hockey team capped off a very successful season by winning gold at the Lower Lakes Female Hockey League Championship Weekend.[...]
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Police union rep faces battery charge
Retired Daytona Beach cop arrested by Ormond Beach police According to the Teamsters Local 385 website, Jeffery Candage represents unionized officers who work for the Daytona Beach, Edgewater, New Smyrna Beach, DeLand, Longwood and Maitland police departments and the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
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Orange deputies search for three men involved in robbery
An Orange County man fought back with pepper spray when three men tried to rob him Monday night, but the men still injured him and got away with his backpack.
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Bishop, drained from sex abuse, retires early
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the early resignation of an “emotionally drained” bishop in Australia whose diocese has been the focus of several prominent sex-abuse scandals.
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Fla. teachers union seeking class size compromise
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Education Association is seeking a compromise on a bill that would weaken Florida’s class size limits. Andy Ford, president of the statewide teachers union, said Tuesday that he’s been meeting with Sen. David…
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Granite Island, Victor Harbor (3)


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Little Pied Cormorants on Granite Island