2025 Year in Photos: May

Foundation Academy celebrated its 88-member Class of 2025 with an inspiring and emotional Commencement Ceremony Friday, May 16, at Leiferman Gymnasium at the Tilden Campus.

Carol Marcellini rocked a pink-and-polka-dot combination from Miles to Go Fashion Boutique at Eight Waves’ third annual Glam & Giving event.

The city of Ocoee celebrated its 100th anniversary with an evening of music, food and family fun at Bill Breeze Park.

Amy Quesinberry Price has told West Orange’s stories for 35 years. She ‘retired’ from the Observer Media Group in May.

For 20 years, customers needing to send packages, buy stamps or pick up mail at the Winter Garden Post Office on West Colonial Drive likely walked up to Ramanand Rewah’s window. The longtime USPS employee is retired in 2025.

The West Orange Junior Service League held a festive 15th annual Run for the Roses Saturday, May 3, at the Ocoee Lakeshore Center.

Southwest Middle School celebrated all things creative at the 14th annual Festival of the Arts.

The town of Windermere continued its centennial celebrations by unsealing and revealing the contents of the 50-year time capsule the town buried in 1975.

Joel Doss, of Ocoee, was nominated for the one-day trip to Washington, D.C., to experience the war memorials in the nation’s capital. Doss served in both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars.

Gold Star families, along with Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and Orange County Sheriff John Mina, concluded Woodlawn’s Memorial Day Service with a dove release.

Sand Lake Elementary students and families frolicked in the sunshine at the school’s Spring Carnival.

West Orange High School’s Class of 2025 participated in three Warrior traditions — the Sen’ya Later Parade, the Senior Walkout and Senior Sunset — to cap their final week of their high school careers. Photo by Thomas Lightbody | TK Photography.

West Orange High School’s Class of 2025 participated in three Warrior traditions — the Sen’ya Later Parade, the Senior Walkout and Senior Sunset — to cap their final week of their high school careers. Photo by Thomas Lightbody | TK Photography.

Ocoee’s Don Bedwell was the first in line at the grand opening of Wawa. He was thrilled to receive his free cup of coffee and T-shirt.

West Orange Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build program raised more than $180,000 in 2025.

Don Denmark, 5, jumped from one BOSU ball to the next in the obstacle course at the Roper YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day celebration.

Winter Garden’s Young Star Musical Theatre’s production of ‘Les Misérables: School Edition’ featured a cast of about 60 young actors.