Paradise Acting Company needs actors

Story by Mark Chapman on May 17th, 2012 at 12:32 pm

The Par­adise Act­ing Com­pany is look­ing for three or four actors ages 15 to 65 for the reper­tory company’s 2012–2013 sea­son (Octo­ber through March).

Pro­duc­tions will include a com­edy, “Crack­erville,” a Christ­mas musi­cal and “Dog Show,” which will be pro­duced in con­junc­tion with a local humane orga­ni­za­tion as a fundraiser and adop­tion pro­gram. Per­for­mances will be held in both Port Char­lotte and Punta Gorda, and pos­si­bly other locations.

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Grove City man accused of counterfeiting drivers licenses

Story by Mark Chapman on May 17th, 2012 at 12:15 pm,
with photos by courtesy CCSO

Cory Lee Marquette

A Grove City man fac­ing drug charges is also accused of man­u­fac­tur­ing fake driver’s licenses.

Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office detec­tives arrested Cory Lee Mar­quette, 20, of the 3300 block of  Gins­ing Lane on Wednes­day and seized $4,623 in cash along with 24 grams of mar­i­juana and drug para­pher­na­lia, accord­ing to a sheriff’s office press release.

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2 charged with trafficking phoney cards in Englewood

Story by Mark Chapman on May 17th, 2012 at 11:54 am,
with photos by courtesy CCSO

Gretcheen Reyes-Rojas

Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Eco­nomic Crimes Unit detec­tives arrested two Naples res­i­dents Wednes­day and charged them with traf­fick­ing in coun­ter­feit credit cards and try­ing to use them at Wal-Mart in Englewood.

Arrested were Alexan­der Toledo, 42 and Gretcheen Reyes-Rojas, 29, both of 2086 46th Street, Naples.

MCU detec­tives were called to Wal-Mart after Toledo and Reyes-Rojas were detained by road deputies. They both had sev­eral credit cards with their names embossed on them, accord­ing to a sheriff’s office press release; how­ever, num­bers used on the front of the card did not match num­bers on the back or on the mag­netic strip when run through a card reader. Three pur­chases were made in the store; two were for $100 gift cards, and other items.

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Lemon Bay High School names April Athletes of the Month

Story by Mark Chapman on May 15th, 2012 at 1:57 am,
with photos by courtesy photo

The Lemon Bay High School ath­letic depart­ment has named two under­class girls as Ath­letes of the Month.

Sopho­more Linda Antonova was the team’s No. 1 girls ten­nis player for sec­ond straight year. She also plays Mo. 1 dou­bles with her sis­ter, and this year they qual­i­fied for the state ten­nis finals by win­ning the No. 1 dou­bles divi­sion at the dis­trict tour­na­ment. Linda led her team through two rounds of region­als and helped her entire team qual­ify for states for the sec­ond straight year. LBHS fin­ished sixth at states as a team.

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Puppet show coming to Lemon Bay Playhouse

Story by Mark Chapman on May 13th, 2012 at 11:18 am,
with photos by courtesy

“Tri­colo, the Mag­i­cal Mosaic Fish: A Pup­pets and Per­son Show” will be pre­sented at 2 p.m. May 26 at the Lemon Bay Play­house by Hurstie and Company.

“Tri­colo, the Mag­i­cal Mosaic Fish: A Pup­pets and Per­son Show” will be pre­sented at 2 p.m. May 26 at the Lemon Bay Play­house by Hurstie and Company.

Meet Gabriel and Mur­phy, two fisher-dogs from the sunny vil­lage of Uvola on the shores of the Dimen­sion­less Sea. They spend their days in search of Tri­colo — a leg­endary multi-colored mag­i­cal fish.

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Beware: The gators are on the move

Story by Mark Chapman on May 10th, 2012 at 11:08 am,
with photos by courtesy CCSO

Alli­ga­tor in swim­ming pool in the River­wood sub­di­vi­sion at 3:30 a.m. May 5.

OK, so these inci­dents did not hap­pen in Engle­wood, but they were close enough. And, the fact is, many Engle­wood res­i­dents have their own gator tales.

The Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office reports alli­ga­tors are mov­ing around more than usual, appar­ently because of the extreme dry sea­son where water holes are dry­ing up and deplet­ing their food supply.

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S. Gulf Cove man charged with child sex offense

Story by Mark Chapman on May 8th, 2012 at 3:00 am

Scott L. Vansice

A South Gulf Cove man was arrested Fri­day and charged with hav­ing sex with an 11-year-old girl.

The girl told a Char­lotte County deputy April 25 that she had sex sev­eral times over the past four to six weeks with Scott Lawrence Van­sice, 37, of Rose­bud Cir­cle, accord­ing to a Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office press release.

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