Clermont News

Following is an account of two bank robberies at the Citizens Bank in the early 1930s, as told to Miriam Johnson in 1983 by George Brady, who then lived in Minneola.

Share + Jul 10, 2009 6:20 am US/Eastern CLERMONT, Fla. Authorities say lightning strikes in central Florida killed an Oklahoma man on vacation and injured four others.

Lightning strikes during today's inclement weather killed one man in Melbourne Beach and injured two people in Clermont this afternoon.

The newly formed Women's Group of St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Clermont held their first meeting at a luncheon at Buffalo's Restaurant recently.

Pictured are Yvette Pfouma Bakinde, Pierre Pfouma Bakinde and Robin Revis-Pyke, Key Club Advisor.

Though school's been out for a couple of weeks and summer has arrived, there's still time for children to enroll in summer theater camp.

It was a formidable challenge, but when dozens of Tavares High School students came together, they scored one for the school and one for the environment.

The driver of a stolen car reached speeds up to 100 miles per hour on the streets of three counties according to deputies.

City, county and state officials gathered Tuesday to get a better understanding of what the Minneola Turnpike interchange project will entail.

Clermont Police arrested a man on an animal cruelty charge after they saw the condition of his white poodle Thursday when the dog was brought to a local Petco store.

Pictured are Verne Smith, Katie Rinaudo, Mykael Hyman, Mollie Sexton, Kaitlyn Thibodeaux, Michael Megler, Emily Rinaudo and Jeannie Smith.

As Clermont prepares to celebrate its 125th anniversary, we Remember the Centennial Celebration of 1984.

Morning crashes in the area of International Drive and in Clermont are slowing drivers this morning.

Viktoria Friedrich of Lost Lake Elementary has won county and district poster contests.

Ray Goodgame will serve another two-year term on the City Council beginning in November, after he was the only city resident to qualify for the Group II seat on the council.

The 1,000-hour rule is best known in retirement circles but also applies to group welfare plans, with respect to nondiscrimination testing.

Editorial excerpts by Publisher George Dupee were as follows: "The East Central Florida Regional Planning Council has great plans for the orderly development of Central Florida.

A man who worked at South Lake Hospital was arrested this week on 100 counts of possession of child pornography after authorities learned he had printed an image of a naked girl from a work printer.

Public defenders pleaded with a Lake County jury this afternoon to recommend a life sentence for an inmate convicted of killing another prisoner in a rage over thefts of shaving cream, cigarettes and a honey bun from his cell at a prison near Clermont.

Thanks to the work of a troop of Boy Scouts, residents in two south Lake subdivisions might be more aware of the importance of storm drains.