Benjamin Stearns News Today

On March 27 at around 9:30 a.m., a series of earthquakes ranging in magnitude from four to nine took place in Gina Masons seventh-grade science class in room 120 at Ecker Hill Middle School. Fortunately, the sporadic set of quakes only affected about a square foot of space where students placed towers they had built to withstand the simulated force of the natural disaster.

A change to state annexation laws that some residents feared would derail their effort to contract North Port city limits was shelved indefinitely on March 11.