Sarasota, Florida -- Support musical theater and local community performers by checking out some of the plays the schools of the Sarasota County School District will perform this May.  

On Thursday, may 16 100 Gocio Elementary students will present the musical play "Annie KIDS" at 7 p.m. It will be held in the school cafeteria, the public is welcome and admission is free.

Thursday, May 23, Students of Ashton Elementary will perform the musical play "Disney's Beauty and the Beast Junior." It will begin at 6:30 p.m. and admission is free. 

Sarasota, Florida-Sarasota takes a road down memory lane and a closer look at the 5 school buildings and 4 additions that helped shape the Sarasota Public School Program from 1954-1960. The exhibit highlights the buildings' design preceding postwar America. The program was initiated by Phillip Hanson Hiss III who was later elected to the Board of Public Instruction, that later became known as the Sarasota County School Board.

Sarasota, Florida -- Direct descendants of City of Sarasota firefighters are now eligible for a scholarship to attend State College of Florida thanks to the generosity of a Florida-based law firm.  The $25,000 scholarship is funded by Sugarman & Susskind, P.A. in Miami which provides legal counsel for the City of Sarasota Firefighters' Pension Fund.