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Park Avenue fast food makes Winter Park officials fret over 'fine dining' image
Fast food has begun creeping on to Park Avenue, alarming Winter Park officials who want to preserve the street's reputation for "fine dining." A BurgerFi opened last year, and a Firehouse Subs is expected soon. By agreeing to offer table service, both...
Tags: McDonald's, Winter Park, Hamburgers, Dining and Drinking, Burger King
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Florida jobless rate dips to 7.2 percent in April
Florida's unemployment rate continues to fall, dipping from 7.5 percent in March to 7.2 percent in April — the lowest level in five years. Metro Orlando's jobless rate also improved, falling to 6.4 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage...
Tags: Orange County (Florida), Rick Scott, Politics, Government, Employment Opportunities
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History fans dive into past through modern social media
Logging on to the behemoth social-media site Facebook, I can become overwhelmed. I see a picture of a dear cousin I need to write. Ah, the guilt. I see, in the stack of ads at right, a picture of a celebrity and the question "Is 60 the new 40?" Ah, the...
Tags: Orange County Regional History Center, Human Interest, Lake Eola, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Maitland
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Harry Potter phenomenon is gone with the proverbial wind
Universal Orlando last week announced Diagon Alley, an expansion to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which opened in 2010. Coming on the heels of the new Transformers ride, the expansion will no doubt be a success. But if the students in my...Tags: Education, Fiction, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, The New York Times
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Orange County Clerk Lydia Gardner dies after long illness
Praised as a "dynamo" of a public servant who took on adversity with an ever-present smile, Orange County Clerk of Courts Lydia Gardner excelled during a period of great change for clerks in Florida, her peers and family said Thursday. Gardner, 68,...
Tags: Orange County (Florida), Rick Scott, Politics, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Vicki L. Wade Rodgers: Former hospital administrator blazed trail in law enforcement
A fiery redhead who served as assistant police chief in Eustis and a hospital administrator, Vicki L. Wade Rodgers was always a fighter. She bravely moved up the police ranks during an era where policewomen were rare, remembered her daughter, Tara...
Tags: Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice, Winter Park, Colleges and Universities
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Orange County Clerk Lydia Gardner has died
Orlando SentinelAfter a long illness, Orange County Clerk of Courts Lydia Gardner died in a Winter Park hospital last night, according to Leesa Bainbridge, Gardner's spokeswoman. Gardner was recently re-elected for her fourth term and sworn in on Jan. 8. Gardner has...Tags: University of Michigan, Health Treatments, Politics, Online Media Industry, Breast Cancer
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Historic Genius Drive sees 1,474 runners, walkers
OrlandoSentinel.comSaturday's Run for the Trees 5K began at Winter Park's Showalter Field and had its final mile on the private, unpaved part of Genius Drive, generally closed to the public since the 1980s because of vandalism. Somehow I had never done this race, and I'm... -
HVS: Hotels to regain pre-recession highs
Hotel-valuation company HVS hosted its first-ever nationwide update last week — linking hoteliers in Orlando with those in 11 other markets for a seminar on how the lodging industry is faring. The company, which recently opened an Orlando office,...
Tags: Lake Buena Vista, NASCAR, Human Interest, Rick Scott, Orlando Hotels
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Cornell Museum at Rollins wins prestigious grant
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College has been awarded an Interpretive Fellowship at Art Museums from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The museum is one of only seven recipients nationwide given this honor; the others are the Metropolitan...
Tags: Arts, Education, Financial Aid, New York City, University of Texas at Austin
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Dwyer, Watson power Orlando City past Dayton 4-0
Just one week after setting a regular-season home attendance mark of 9,140, an announced crowd of 9,589 took in the Orlando City Soccer Club's 4-0 win Saturday over the Dayton Dutch Lions at the Florida Citrus Bowl. Orlando City (4-1-1) scored three...
Tags: Sports, Soccer
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First Fridays in Orlando, Eustis
I've been going to the monthly First Fridays at FAVO since its inception in 2011, and it has now grown to 19 once-upon-a-time-motel rooms full of artists. The quality of work has increased, too, with some professional artists in the lineup now. This month...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Winter Park
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