============================================================ DIGITAL DIGEST � http://www.naplesnews.com � November 13, 2004 ============================================================ Subscribe to the Naples Daily News: http://web.naplesnews.com/circulation/ GOLDEN EAGLES� TITLE DREAM DIES IN SHOCKING UPSET In a matter of mere seconds, the Naples High football sideline went from jubilation to a sea of stunned disbelief. For in those seconds the Golden Eagles� season � and their dreams of winning another Class 5A state championship � came to an unexpected end. Naples coach Bill Kramer said it ended because the Eagles did not play their best game when they needed to. PORTABLES REMAIN A FACT OF LIFE DESPITE SIX NEW SCHOOLS As part of its $2.8 million in renovations, Lake Park Elementary acquired a new wing with eight new classrooms to handle students and programs. And this is a school in a stable, older Naples neighborhood, where student enrollment had declined for three years. Then suddenly, for no reason officials can identify, student enrollment unexpectedly rose this year. NAPLES BAY GROUP WANTS FUNDS FOR EDUCATION EFFORTS More money to teach people how to be better stewards of Naples Bay topped a wish list of 2005 funding requests that bay boosters compiled Friday. The list will go to the South Florida Water Management District, which will carry funding requests for Naples Bay restoration to the state Legislature next spring. The legislative session is scheduled to start March 8. BUILDERS TALK ANNEXATION VS. INCORPORATION FOR ESTERO Don Eslick and Neal Noethlich received a consensus building award from the Florida Planning and Zoning Association on Friday. But their biggest consensus building challenge is still well in front of them. In a little more than a month, a moratorium that held back Bonita Springs from annexing any part of Estero will end. Many Estero residents are concerned it will be open season for Bonita officials to poach off valuable pieces of real estate and, in the process, take away large chunks of what would be Estero�s tax base should it ever decide to incorporate. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com IN PERSPECTIVE: MOLLY IVINS: HOW CAN WE FORGET ASHCROFT�S GOLDEN MOMENTS? Awwww, Ashcroft! My man. The one I liked best of the whole Cabinet, the most consistently entertaining, the most the most deliciously inept, the most amazingly wrong-headed. Ashcroft, my personal Bush administration icon. And besides, he�s so sexy. How can we forget the golden moments? The day he covered up the nekkid tit on a statue of the Spirit of Justice in the Justice Department headquarters because we can�t have that kind of thing. Read more commentary and get local editorials and today�s Letters to the Editor at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/ IN FLORIDA HURRICANE RECOVERY GIVES FLORIDA EXTRA MILLIONS IN TAX REVENUE A booming housing market and the rebuilding needed from four hurricanes are expected to boost state tax dollars by $1.6 billion more this year than first thought, state economists said Friday. The stronger-than-anticipated recovery and the rebuilding-induced spending is expected to continue into next year, boosting tax collections by an additional $1.4 billion into 2006, according to the revised state tax revenue estimate. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/florida/ IN NEAPOLITAN: THE PORSCHE OF TRICYCLES Citizens, beware: a tricycle thief is on the loose. This mysterious bandit isn�t after just any three-wheeler but the Kettler, a luxury trike that has become a sort of status symbol for (parents of) the preschool set. The Kettler is a boldly colored toddler transport that costs, not including options, more than three times what typical tricycles run. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/neapolitan/
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