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  • By Troy Herring |
  • January 6, 2021
FORECAST: Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital ready for debut

The new Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital will open its doors Jan. 30 and offer its services to a growing community in Southwest Orange County.

  • Southwest Orange
  • News
  • By Troy Herring |
  • March 7, 2021
HISTORY MADE: Dr. Phillips wins first state basketball title in 54-46 victory over Dwyer

A clutch 27-point night for Denzel Aberdeen, and a balanced game plan, catapults the Panthers to its first state basketball title in school history.

  • Sports
  • By Danielle Hendrix |
  • July 29, 2020
Meet Orange County School Board District 4 Candidate Dayna Gaut

Read our exclusive Q&A with Orange County School Board District 4 candidate Dayna Gaut.

  • West Orange Times & Observer
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  • By Troy Herring |
  • July 18, 2019
Making the call: Jarred Neal finds his place on the field as an umpire

The world of umpiring can be a difficult place, but for first-year guys like Ocoee High graduate Jarred Neal, it’s a path back to the sport he loves.

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  • News
  • By Troy Herring |
  • January 9, 2020
FORECAST: Girls athletics continues to grow

With the rise of social media and female empowerment, high schools across the country have seen a spike in female participation in sports.

  • Sports
  • By Amy Quesinberry Price |
  • October 13, 2021
Garden club celebrates Winter Garden’s heritage trees

The city is full of trees that are more than 100 years old, and many of them are located near historic downtown.

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  • By Amy Quesinberry Price |
  • February 8, 2017
In the memory bank with Becky Sanders Holton

A former Winter Garden teller who spent 28 years with First National Bank and its successors talks about her career in the downtown bank.

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  • By Gabby Baquero |
  • June 15, 2018
Gotha family offers safe haven for animals in need

One Gotha family has adopted and rehomed about 70 animals since they opened their home to farm animals in need.

  • Southwest Orange
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  • By Steven Ryzewski |
  • September 7, 2018
Power Partnership: Former pro athletes team up for fitness, training facility

Kyle Farnsworth — a longtime pitcher in Major League Baseball — and Ernest Wiggins II — a sprinter who was an alternate for the 2004 United States Olympic Track & Field team — are the men behind Winter Garden’s Atlas Speed Training and Farnsworth Peak Per

  • Sports
  • By Steven Ryzewski |
  • October 4, 2018
Girls on the Run helps local girls find their 'Star Power'

Girls on the Run Central Florida is celebrating 10 years of building healthy, confident girls in local schools across Southwest Orange.

  • Sports
  • By Steven Ryzewski |
  • November 2, 2017
Leroy Kinard, football coach at The First Academy, has West Orange roots -- Observer Preps

Before he was the head coach of the undefeated First Academy Royals, Leroy Kinard was a youth growing up in Oakland and finding his love for the game in West Orange County.

  • Sports
  • By Danielle Hendrix |
  • May 4, 2017
Relay for Life in Winter Garden to honor local cancer survivors

Windermere resident Brogan Regan, 5, will be among the cancer survivors honored at Relay for Life of West Orange.

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  • By Amy Quesinberry Price |
  • August 28, 2024
INFLUENCER OF THE WEEK: Pilar Arroyo-Marquez, Water Spring Middle School

Pilar Arroyo-Marquez has been the math teacher at WSMS for four years.

  • West Orange Times & Observer
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  • By Amy Quesinberry Price |
  • April 23, 2025
Celebrating Ocoee's Centennial: 1995-2005

The city of Ocoee officially was established in 1925, but the settlement predates the Civil War.

  • Ocoee Centennial
  • By Amy Quesinberry Price |
  • April 9, 2025
Horizon High bringing “Grease” to stage

The Horizon Highn thespians are channeling their inner Rydell High characters for a trip to the 1950s.

  • Southwest Orange
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  • By Amy Quesinberry Price |
  • May 16, 2024
FAMILIAR FACES: Sebrenia Brown

Tildenville resident Sebrenia Brown still lives near her childhood home and works for the city in which she grew up.

  • West Orange Times & Observer
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  • By Amy Quesinberry Price |
  • January 22, 2025
Mother, son write memoir on fostering experience

Ben Snyder Jr., with the help of his mother, Michelle Snyder, has penned a book that shares a biological child’s view of growing up in a household with more than 25 foster “siblings.”

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  • By Annabelle Sikes |
  • October 19, 2023
If you can dream it, you can do it

Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort celebrated its 35th anniversary this month with the help of the only cast member who has been with the establishment since the beginning: Undrill “Drill” Munfus.

  • Southwest Orange
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  • By Annabelle Sikes |
  • October 26, 2023
Not in my backyard: Residents speak out against liquor store in Horizon West

A developer is seeking to construct Stoneybrook Liquors on 4.2 acres north of Porter Road and west of Hamlin Groves Trail.

  • Southwest Orange
  • News
  • By Sam Albuquerque |
  • September 30, 2024
FRIDAY NIGHT FIVE: West Orange football in district driver's seat after Apopka win

Observer Sports Editor Sam Albuquerque serves up his top five observations from the area's high school football games, every Monday morning.

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