Eustis News

Though school's been out for a couple of weeks and summer has arrived, there's still time for children to enroll in summer theater camp.

Here's an audition notice for the Bay Street Players' Elephant Man : AUDITIONS a ' The Elephant Man - 2009-2010 Season July 13 & 14 --7:30 PM Bay Street Players will hold open auditions for The Elephant Man on Monday July 13 and Tuesday, July 14 at 7:30 PM.

You don't have to go far to get the best bang out of your holiday this Independence Day.

A cruise-in is set for 5 to 9p.m. today in downtown Eustis and Ferran Park. Sponsored by Eustis Main Street, the event is free, and registration is free to cruisers.

The wife of a local soldier who died from a brain tumor after being exposed to smoke from garbage-burning pits in Iraq joined more than a dozen Florida soldiers in a class-action lawsuit.

A pair of 18-month-old twins died as a result of a house fire in Eustis, Fla., county officials say.

LARRY ELL Staff Writer TAVARES -- When it comes to the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, students may take the exam, but everybody shares in the grade.

People driving through the city on Bay or Grove streets cannot help but notice artwork that is part of the Eustis Public Sculpture Program.

Editor's note: An item in Thursday's and Friday's Lake County section misstated the date of the Eustis Kiwanis Club's pancake breakfast at Ferran Park.

The Central Florida Youth Orchestra will have its annual music camp at the Leesburg and Clermont campuses of Lake-Sumter Community College for students 5 to 22 years old.

As congressional leaders and White House bigwigs appeared on the Sunday morning news circuit to talk about healthcare, some local activists hit the street corners in Eustis opposing any moves to establish a government-run healthcare system.

Officials have postponed a City Commission discussion scheduled for this week about a plan to purchase 11 downtown acres that once belonged to the old Waterman hospital.

Two students have won top honors in a statewide poster contest that encouraged water conservation.

The Lake-Sumter Community College Foundation Inc. is accepting applications from students for the ambassador program for the fall semester, which begins in August.

Students can ride LakeXpress for free this summer. County commissioners recently approved the free summer rides on a 4-1 vote to encourage a new generation to become regular users of the tax-funded bus service, which can shuttle them to jobs, county parks and shopping venues such as Lake Square Mall in Leesburg .

Eleven Lake County residents -- one of them a juvenile -- were among 77 men arrested during a 10-week statewide cybercrime operation announced today.

DAVID DONALD Staff Writer When the Lake County School District eliminates courtesy busing next year, some students living within a two-mile radius of their school will have to walk to school.

Rain is washing out tonight's planned "Summer in the City" downtown First Friday Street Fest.

Beacon College marked it 20th Anniversary on Saturday at the Florida Carriage Museum.

Lake residents reacted swiftly and negatively to news that the state Legislature in its waning days voted to delegate the power of handing out what remains of Florida's water to bureaucrats in water districts across the state.