Mount Dora News

For the second year in a row, students in the school's junior and senior class, members of The Way, a student-led service organization, collected and distributed coats, blankets and socks to homeless clients of the Christian Service Center for Central Florida Inc.

But the Eustis and Mount Dora police chiefs said the numbers in the audit don't add up.

Adonis Collado remembers his nature-loving sister's perpetual willingness to always play with him, while Paris Chambliss will never forget her grandmother's warm, generous hugs.

Joel Warren doesn't have the title "artistic director" at the Bay Street Players, although he assumed the leadership of the theater earlier this year.

Orlando's main road-building agency may take over construction of almost all of the $1.66 billion Wekiva Parkway, but not if the agency has to raise tolls to cover the cost.

The quintessential drunk with a graying beard drooling in his sleep on a park bench is still out there.

Christopher's Inn Bed & Breakfast and the Cinnamon Inn Bed & Breakfast, both in Mount Dora , as well as Elva Gregory, an Orlando mobile food vendor, and M&M Concessions in Winter Park have been recognized by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation's Division of Hotels and Restaurants for having no safety or sanitation ... (more)

Lake Technical Center, which trains students for careers in a variety of fields, will assist them in job searches Wednesday with its first Career Fair.

SEVERE STORMS ROLLED THROUGH CENTRAL FLORIDA LAST NIGHT BRINGING WITH THEM PLENTY OF LIGHTNING, THUNDER AND HAIL ALONG WITH 50-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDS.

Charred Corn Tacos With Radish Zucchini Slaw combines the crunch of grilled corn with herbs and spring radishes.

That's the ticket for Chace Miller, who will report June 27 to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis , Md.

The city is ready to welcome more than 200,000 bikers and others looking for a good time in perfect spring weather.

Discount retail stores -- especially those where everything costs $1 -- are flat-out irresistible to me.

Meadows, roadsides, and fields along state road 441 in central Florida are adorned with phlox from white to purple and all shades in between.

A Lake County woman said the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico put her restaurant out of business.

Maybe it's the snazzy logo , but for some reason most poetry this month has passed unnoticed.

The 7-year-old first-grader at Christian Home & Bible School in Mount Dora goes to ACE gymnastics in Longwood four days a week.

City officials finalized plans for a $3.8 million downtown "streetscape" project to upgrade sidewalks, streets, underground utilities, and create a pedestrian mall on Fourth Avenue.

For more than 60 years, "The Amazing Kreskin" has been captivating audiences with his uncanny abilities as a mentalist that he shows off with his unique theatrical flair.