2025 Year in Photos: February

Petty USA performed note-for-note renditions of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers hits.at the 2025 Winter Garden Music Festival, held Saturday, Feb. 22, in downtown.

Curtis Massey, Oakland’s first black mayor, led the town at a time when it had few paved roads, a two-person police department and no town taxes.

Matt Hauschalter and his 3-year-old daughter Olivia Haushalter, and 4-year-old Layne Siviglia and her father, Josh Siviglia, shared a special evening at Windermere’s second annual Daddy-Daughter Dance.

Bernie Hendricks, band director at Ocoee High School, led his students at HAPCO Music Foundation’s 2025 Ocoee Jazz Fest.

Florida District 15 Sen. Geraldine Thompson died Feb. 13, 2025, after complications from knee surgery. She was 76.

Nearly 30 students from The First Academy traveled to New York City for a multiple-day field trip full of educational and cultural experiences.

Hundreds of chili fans flocked to McKey Street in Ocoee for Legacy Events for Education’s 2025 Central Florida Chili Cookoff.

Windermere resident Simona La Terra is a blogger, traveler and tastemaker who brings her authentic Italian roots to your kitchen table.

Nearly 70 students in second through sixth grade from both of Foundation Academy’s two elementary campus drama clubs worked together to present ‘Kids on Broadway.’

City officials and staff welcomed Ocoee residents for the reveal of the 1,200-foot McKey Street Centennial Mural as part of the city’s 100-year anniversary festivities.

Ocoee Deputy Chief Scott Nylander became the third person in the department to complete the FBI National Academy.

Town of Oakland residents had an unexpected visitor, when a black bear was seen foraging for a snack.

Kris Keller was sworn in as the newest member of the Oakland Town Commission.

Attendees had a blast trying various food and wine at the 11th annual Windermere Wine & Dine Saturday, Feb. 1.