Long-serving council member Andy Williams takes up the mayor's gavel while Brandi Haines retains her seat and Wine & Dine's ...

Windermere Mayor Jim O’Brien announced Monday afternoon that he will not seek re-election. O’Brien has served for the past six years as the town’s mayor and for eight years prior as a member of the ...

Over the past few weeks, several videos, like this one, have been posted on Nextdoor by residents of unincorporated Orange County, Hamlin, Horizon West and Winter Garden illustrating a dangerous ...

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When you're in the thick of child-rearing, folks are fond of saying that the days are long, but the years are short. And so it is with news publishing. 2025 flew by in an instant. Yet so much happened ...

Saturday morning, a handful of members from the Adams-Onis Treaty Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) gathered under a shady tree in the Oakland Cemetery. They were joined by a ...

Smile and say, Cheese! Come January, you may be captured by the Town of Oakland’s new 72-camera, high-resolution surveillance system. In their final meeting of 2025, town commissioners unanimously ...

Oakland amended its interlocal agreement with Orange County last week, reducing the amount the town will pay for fire prevention and rescue services by $38,000. This is the first amendment to the town ...

The Town of Windermere last week appealed a recent ruling that disputed its claims of ownership of five historic boathouses in the Palmer Park lagoon — prolonging a three-year lawsuit to evict 10 ...

Winter Garden voted to substantially raise its water-related impact fees during the city commission’s Dec. 11 meeting, the last one of 2025. Commissioners elected to bypass the statutory limitations ...