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The Freedom Area School District will start the new school year with a new superintendent, Jeffrey A. Fuller. He comes to the Beaver County district from the Seneca Valley School District, where he was assistant superintendent for elementary education.

After 19 years in Freedom Area, Ron Sofo resigned as superintendent, a position he filled for nearly 10 years. He is now CEO and principal of City Charter High School in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Other administrative changes are taking place in Freedom Area, which has about 1,500 students from Freedom, Conway and New Sewickley.

Timothy J. Dadich is the new high school principal, replacing Robert "Rusty" Staub, who retired. Mr. Dadich had worked in the Mercer Area School District.

Darlene Corris is now the middle school principal. She had been assistant high school principal.

Richard Edder, who had been middle school principal, is now principal at Big Knob and Conway elementary schools. Deborah Baycura retired as principal at Conway Elementary School and director of elementary education.

Freedom Area will continue to move toward offering more cyber course options to students in grades 7-12, Mr. Fuller said.

At Seneca Valley, more than 1,000 students take some courses online, he said. In Freedom Area, the number has been small but growing.

"We are contracting with Seneca Valley" on cyber courses, he said.

Students can choose to take cyber courses so that they spend less time at the school building, Mr. Fuller said. They could want to do that because of extracurricular activities or because they have jobs.

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August 22, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Joliet Slammers (Florence, KY) - The Florence Freedom (48-38) scored a run in the seventh and a run in the eighth to knock off the Joliet Slammers (35-51) by a final score of 6-4 Wednesday night. It's the Slammers' eighth straight loss as they fell to a season high 16 games under .500.

Once again Joliet got on the board first. Patrick Norris hit the first pitch of the game from Freedom starter Andy Clark over the right field fence for a home run.

The Freedom responded in the second inning when Eddie Rodriguez homered off Joliet starter Jacob Sanchez.

Joliet took their second lead of the game in the top of the third. Josh Lyon doubled and Matt Mirabal singled him to third. Norris chopped an RBI grounder to give Joliet a 2-1 edge.

Florence scored three times in the bottom of the third inning to take the lead. Pierre LePage singled to start the frame and David Harris doubled to right. The throw in from David Christensen bounced away from Netzel and LePage scored. Junior Arrojo bunted his way on base and Sanchez was ejected from the game for arguing the call by field umpire Brett Houseman.

Mike Barsotti entered the contest and Peter Fatse greeted him with a sacrifice fly to give Florence a 3-2 lead. Rodriguez followed with a single to drive in Arrojo and it was 4-2 Florence.

Neither team scored again until the top of the seventh. Christensen and Maunus drew back-to-back walks. They pulled off a double steal and rookie Andrew Brauer smacked a two-RBI single to tie the game at four.

Florence responded in the bottom of the seventh against Joliet reliever Rey Cotilla (0-2). With two outs Stephen Cardullo singled to right. He stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch. LePage singled him home to put Florence up 5-4.

Rodriguez's second home run of the game gave the Freedom an insurance run in the eighth.

The Slammers will try to beat Florence for the first time in franchise history Thursday night as they send Tommy Mendoza (4-5, 4.40 ERA) to the mound. First pitch is at 6:05 p.m. and all the action can be heard on AM 1340 WJOL and online at http://www.wjol.com.

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Slammers Edged by Freedom

August 22, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Florence, KY-Eddie Rodriguez launched two solo homeruns on Wednesday night leading the Florence Freedom(48-38) past the Joliet Slammers(35-51) 6-4. It was the Freedom's fourth straight win as they trail the wild card race by 1.5 games with ten games to play. Rodriguez led the Freedom going 3-4 with 3 RBI.

The Slammers jumped out quickly on Freedom starter Andy Clark. Patrick Norris drove the first pitch of the game over the right center field wall to give Joliet a 1-0 lead. The Freedom's Rodriguez came back in the 2nd inning and took Joliet starter Jacob Sanchez deep on just one pitch to tie the game. It was his 11th of the season. With the Freedom trailing 2-1 in the 3rd, Pierre LePage led off the inning with a single to right field. Then David Harris doubled to right field. The Slammers right fielder David Christensen was charged with a throwing error on his throw to second base which allowed LePage to score from third and tie the game at 2-2. Junior Arrojo then got down a perfectly executed bunt up the third base line advancing Harris to third. Peter Fatse then hit a sacrifice fly, scoring Harris to put the Freedom ahead 3-2. With Rodriguez at the plate, Arrojo stole his 27th base of the season to get into scoring position. Rodriguez then drove him in on an RBI single to give Florence a 4-2 lead.

The Slammers came back in the 7th. Brennan Flick walked back to back hitters to start the inning. After a double steal by Christensen and Kyle Maunus, Andrew Brauer singled back up the middle against Matt Kline(2-3) scoring both runners and tying the game at 4-4. Kline then retired the next three batters to end the inning.

The Freedom went back to work in their 7th against Ray Cotillla(0-2). There were two outs in the inning when the Freedom started their rally. Stephen Cardullo singled, stole second base, and advanced to third on a wild pitch. LePage then ripped a single into left field to break the tie and give the Freedom a 5-4 lead. The Freedom extended the lead to 6-4 in the 8th on Rodriguez's second homer of the night and his 12th of the season. It was also his 5th homerun over the last four games.

Jorge Marban came on in the 9th and nailed down his 11th save of the season. Kline recorded his second straight win out of the bullpen in as many nights.

The Freedom can sweep Joliet Thursday night as their three game series concludes. Joliet will feature RHP Tommy Mendoza(4-5, 4.40) as the Freedom will counter with RHP Brad Allen(1-1, 1.54). The game can be heard starting at 6:50 with Steve Jarnicki on Real Talk 1160 AM and realtalk1160.com.

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Rodriguez's Two Homers Lead Freedom to Victory

Reckoning today from Porto, Portugal...

"Shall we drive up to Braga tomorrow?" asked our wanderlusting travel companion (and fianc), Anya.

Liberty cannot exist unless certain preconditions are present...and others absent. Freedom of movement is a rather obvious one...the opposite of captivity. Freedom demands an absence of bars and jail cells.

Indeed, it would be a strange brand of freedom where one had to ask permission to go (or to "be") here or there. Likewise, it would be a strange prison where inmates were free to "come and go as they please."

Along with freedom of association and freedom of speech, freedom of movement seems rather central to the idea of liberty.

But let's imagine for a second that, instead of driving to Braga, Anya had suggested flying to, say, Beirut...or Bucharest...or even Brasilia? (These are not infrequent suggestions, by the way.)

Your Australian-born editor needs a visa to visit these places...and many, many more locales besides. Our freedom of movement is, therefore, compromised. It is seen by The State as something "to be granted," as opposed to unalienable.

Even for Hong Kong, a destination which makes a habit of ranking among the "freest places on earth" on lists that monitor such things (here's one), individuals who happened to have been born on Terra Australis, through no fault of their own, are required to obtain a visa if they wish to "work, study, get trained, establish or join in any business or to take up residence." So say the agencies that oversee such things.

In fact, your antipodean editor would have considerable difficulty just leaving this tiny country were his papers not "in order." Likewise if he stayed too long. We need a valid passport to sit in a cafe in France or to sip a port in Porto...a permission book to move over imagined lines in the sand.

Odd, isn't it, what passes for freedom these days.

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Freedom of Movement in a World of Invisible Borders