Fathers and daughters donned their finery and danced the night away to tunes spun by DJ Tom DiFlorio at the popular annual "Daddy/Daughter" dance at the Donahue Academy over the weekend. (photo by David Scanlan)
The Donahue girls basketball team, in their second straight trip to the regional championships, lost 55-35 to Sarasota Christian in Sarasota.
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Paul Dinan, who is homeschooled in Ave Maria, won a first-place ribbon at the Collier Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
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 The annual conference this year will highlight the growing influence and legacy of the program as well as Fr. Matthew Lamb (right), says Aquinas Center Director Roger Nutt. The conference is open to all.
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New golf cart regulations are still in the works but are moving forward with county officials, the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board was told at its monthly meeting Tuesday morning. The board also heard updates on the bond offereng for part of the infrastructure of the Maple Ridge neighborhood, recent theft of entry letters and plans for five new "high-tech" crosswalks in the town center.
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Three local teams of Ave Maria residents, all of whom have been competing in the Sunshine State Steak Cookoff for many years, took the top three places in Saturday's fifth annual competition. (Above, Michael Timmis holds the first-place trophy aloft for his team, Big Carbon Footprint)
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Hundreds of students from Ave Maria University, the Donahue Academy and the Ave Maria School of Law were among the thousands in Washington at the annual march marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
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Black smoke towered over Ave Maria Tuesday when a small fire flared up at a construction site for Phase 3 of Maple Ridge in Ave Maria. Resident Kyle Kopec said it appeared that a controlled burn apparently got out of control. Fire crews based in Ave Maria and Immokalee put down the fire in a few hours, and there were no injuries or damage. (photo by Kyle Kopec)
 A Collier County Sheriff's Office deputy now is assigned to Ave Maria 24 hours a day, seven days a week, following a realignment that now has Ave Maria under the jurisdiction of the Immokalee district.
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Dr. Seana Sugrue, a professor of politics at Ave Maria University, will be the first of four 2015 recipients of the Laub Novak award for excellence in teaching.
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Three more Ave Maria University students were arrested Friday on theft charges for stealing large metal letters from the Ave Maria entrance sign on Oil Well Rd. A fourth student was arrested in December for the same incident, and a second investigation into a similar incident Jan. 13 is being investigated by the Collier County Sheriff's Office.
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The sheriff's office is investigating another incident involving metal letters from the sign at the main entrance to Ave Maria being ripped from the stone wall.
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 A total of 74 triathletes rode through Ave Maria Saturday and hundreds more in the half-triathlon turned around at the main gate on Oil Well Rd. Among those in the half triatthlon was NASCAR champion driver Jimmie Johnson, competing in his first triathlon.
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Things will be heating up in the Ave Maria town center Saturday, Jan. 24, for the fifth annual Sunshine State Steak Cookoff featuring family fun, a 5k run, entertainment and of course grilled steaks.
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Hundreds of cyclists participating in the HITS Triathlon will be riding by and through the Ave Maria Saturday, Jan. 10.
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Lizzie Pivarunus, a senior at Immaculata Academy in the Buffalo-area town of Hamburg, NY, was surprised before her Christmas school break to learn that she won a full scholarship to Ave Maria University in a competition that was held for high school students visiting the AMU campus in the fall.
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 The Parent Association of Donahue Catholic in Ave Maria has announced that their barn dance and pig roast fundraising event Dec. 13 raised $22,000 for the school. At left, Paul and Therese Peterson, who won the prize for Best Dressed of the 170 who attended.
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