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  • Leticia Silva
  • September 25, 2025
Winter Garden Chick-fil-A closed for repairs

The Chick-fil-A in Winter Garden is temporarily closed to improve its drive-thru.

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  • Megan Bruinsma
  • September 25, 2025
Winter Garden Cracker Barrel to change its logo again

Winter Garden’s Cracker Barrel was one of four stores to undergo renovations, but it won’t be sticking.

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  • Leticia Silva
  • September 25, 2025
Car purchase in Ocoee leading to lawsuits

Winter Garden family purchased a vehicle for a struggling college student from an Ocoee car lot. Days later, its transmission failed.

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  • Liz Ramos
  • September 24, 2025
OCPS stops school-wide "witchcraft" video series at West Orange High

OCPS has directed West Orange High to stop a series allegedly promoting witchcraft after a complaint from Liberty Counsel.

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  • Liz Ramos
  • September 24, 2025
JAM Hot Chicken expands into Plant Street Market

The brand will be opening a second location in the former Hunger Street Tacos Space in the fall.

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  • Megan Bruinsma
  • September 24, 2025
Ocoee city commissioners approve pickleball facility

Ocoee moving forward with preliminary pickleball facility design and interviews for Forest Lake Golf Club.

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  • Liz Ramos
  • September 24, 2025
West Orange mayors give State of the County

Orange County, Oakland, Ocoee, Windermere and Winter Garden mayors addressed property taxes, infrastructure and more at West Orange Chamber of Commerce's State of the County.

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  • Liz Ramos
  • September 24, 2025
SOBO Art Gallery's Young Creatives Showcase to open Oct. 2

The showcase provides high school and college students opportunities to show their work in a community gallery.

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  • Leticia Silva
  • September 23, 2025
Dead car battery becomes teaching moment to young Oakland boys

AAA technician Mike Law taught two boys aged three and four how to change a car battery.

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  • Megan Bruinsma
  • September 22, 2025
West Orange senior Emily Tatum named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist

Emily Tatum’s academic achievements earned her an award given to less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

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  • Michael Eng
  • September 20, 2025
PHOTOS: Charlie Kirk vigil in Winter Garden

Thousands of West Orange residents attended the vigil, held Saturday, Sept. 20, on the steps of Winter Garden City Hall.

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  • Leticia Silva
  • September 20, 2025
PHOTOS: Oakland hosts block party for its community

The town of Oakland held a block party Friday, Sept. 19 at the Healthy West Orange Arts & Heritage Center.

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  • Leticia Silva
  • September 18, 2025
Man arrested for murder of Winter Garden engineer six years later

The murder took place in 2019, a day after Michael Kotait left home for Gainesville to see family, officials said.

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  • Leticia Silva
  • September 18, 2025
Westbrooke Elementary renovates its media center

Artist Jordan Emmitt created a colorful space for kids at the school, further enhancing the media center’s renovations.

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  • Michael Eng
  • September 18, 2025
Prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk planned for Saturday in Winter Garden

The vigil will take place at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, on the steps of Winter Garden City Hall, 300 W. Plant St.

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