Accomplished Donahue Academy senior Dominic Allan is featured in the Naples Daily News in its annual series on "Graduates of Distinction." He'll be attending Ave Maria University in the fall and plans on a career in medicine.
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Many parents and staff at the Donahue Academy in Ave Maria are seeking more information about a recent action by the board of directors not to renew contracts of three popular staff and faculty and the resignation of two of the five members on the board of the Catholic K-12 school.
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More than 100 dancers will be stepping out at the Ave Maria Dance Academy's eighth annual dance recital – New York, New York! – Saturday, May 21, at 1 p.m. at Palmetto Ridge High School.
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The U.S. Supreme Court granted significant relief to religiously-affiliated organizations opposed to the Obamacare birth control mandate, but a decision Monday made no ruling on the merits of the question and sent the matter back to the appeals courts to try to resolve. Both Ave Maria University and the Ave Maria School of Law were encouraged
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 Myra Daniels, a longtime pillar of the arts community in Florida, is donating $3 million to WGCU Public Media and the station's building will be renamed in her honor, the Fort Myers News-Press reports. Mrs. Daniels had planned to spearhead creation of an arts center at Ave Maria before Ave Maria University changed plans for the project.
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Collier County vcmmissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve an ordinance to regulate the use of golf carts in Ave Maria.
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Cardinal Sean O'Malley challenged a record number of Ave Maria University graduates Saturday to "live out your mission" to evangelize the Catholic faith at the university's 12th commencement exercises.
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The Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board has approved holding a referendum June 27 that would let residents determine whether to directly elect one or more members to the board. At their May 3 meeting, supervisors also decided to further study the matter of permitting signs on district property and also approved a draft 2016-2017 budget that keeps assessments on homeowners flat.
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The Ave Children's Theater is presenting four performances of Disney's The Lion King at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 30-May 1, in the AMU ballroom. (photo by Patrick Novekosky)
The new parish center for the Ave Maria quasi parish will open May 15 with a pancake breakfast after the 10 a.m. Mass, Pastor Fr. Cory Mayer said Thursday. The center will be used for a variety of parish events. (Above, Fr. Mayer with Mary Ellen Smolinski in the kitchen area of the 1,750-square-foot center next to the parish office)
Forty young members of the Quasi Parish of Ave Maria Oratory received their First Communion Sunday.
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Alan and Renée Beckner have announced that be closing their jewelry store in Ave Maria in May. Beckner Jewelry and Repair was one of the first businesses to open in town.
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The team, the only one at AMU that competes against NCAA Division I schools, placed well this spring and are looking forward to competing in the next academic year. (pictured l-r: team president Maggie Stutzman, Victoria Speicher, Abigail Venter, Kubra Akyuz, and Alexis McClellan following a show in March)
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The Naples Daily News reports that Wilson Ospina agreed to shift one of three daily CrossFit workouts he has with neighbors in the Ave Maria neighborhood to 8 am to 6 am, ending an increasingly testy exchange with the Maple Ridge Home Owners Association. (photo by Naples Daily News)
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The Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board approved a draft county ordinance regulating golf cart usage in Ave Maria Tuesday, sending the matter to Collier County commissioners. The board meeting also heard updates on a move to directly elect one of the board members and on plans for a permanent fire station in town.
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The first ever town-wide event marking the Feast of the Annunciation drew hundreds of Ave Maria residents and students to a candlelight rosay procession through town. (photo by Mary Stuller)
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 Bernard Dobranski, an accomplished legal educator who was the founding dean of the Ave Maria School of Law, has died, current dean Kevin Cieply announced Saturday.
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Another fitness option is coming to Ave Maria, with a CrossFit gym planned to open later this year in the plaza with the Mobil gas station. The gym will be owned by Jason Gabauer, who operates the Martial Arts Fitness Academy in the same plaza, and his partner Wilson Ospina. (Above, Mr. Ospina is at far right with a group of CrossFit enthusiasts in a temporary facility)
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