Friday, February 8, 2013
Florida Highway Patrol said 35-year-old Daniel P Giguere lost control of his car and drove into oncoming traffic, crashing into another vehicle.
The manager of the Payne Skate Park and teacher at Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences died Friday morning after a crash on U.S. 41. Daniel P. Giguere, 35, of Bradenton, was pronounced dead at the scene after he he lost control of his car and drove into oncoming traffic on U.S. 41 north of Seagate Drive in Manatee County, according to Florida Highway Patrol. Giguere was the president of the nonprofit Sk8skool, which operated the skate park at Payne Park. He also was a physical education teacher at the School of Arts and Sciences, which is a charter school. His love of skateboarding was strong at the school, too, where he even had skateboards and longboards available for students. Giguere coached basketball at the school where he was …
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The Rosemary District charter school celebrated its completion of its campus on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Sarasota School of Arts & Sciences celebrated its completed campus in Sarasota's Rosemary District Tuesday after two years of construction and more than a decade in the works. The charter school features a 43,000-square-foot classroom building, a 10,000- square-foot gymnasium plus another building for instruction that students call "the tower." The school began through conversations with a group around the dinner table of Susan Burns and public defender Laurence Eger in 1994, leading to the opening of the school in 1997. "We talked about emphasizing the arts and the sciences because we do have an incredibly successful arts community here and we have a beautiful environment here," said founding board member Devin Rutkowski. "We even talked …
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Karate instructor John Garcia was arrested for having sex seven years ago with a Sarasota School of the Arts and Sciences student.
A karate instructor at the Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences is being held in Sarasota County jail without bond following charges he had sex seven years ago with a student in his classroom. The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested John Garcia, 47 of 2816 Poplar St., Sarasota, for allegedly having sex with a student seven years ago. Garcia was taken into custody Friday morning and charged with Custodial Sexual Battery on a Child, according to the sheriff's office. A former student told detectives that Garcia had sex with her in his classroom when he was 41-years-old and she was just 14-years-old, according to the sheriff's office. The victim, who is now 21 years old, had told her brothers about the incident, who then notified …
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calijah
12:46 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
HE WUS LIKE A DAD TO ME I HAVE NEVER MET My DAD AND I LOVE COACH DAN I GO TO THE SKATE PARK EVERY DAY HOPING HE IS THARE I MIS YOU SOOO MUCH WORDS CAN TELL I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU COACH DAN R.I.P more ›