Tavares News

A worker at Galaxy Fireworks at Orange Blossom Trail and Clarcona-Ocoee Road opens the tent.

University of Central Florida basketball player Jermaine Taylor was picked up during the NBA draft.

T he mad scramble for money has started. This is budget season for governments, and if you want to put in your two cents, so to speak, now is the time.

The Rev. S. William Tyson walked into his office on a recent Sunday morning at Union Congregational Church and, as always, began preparing to deliver his weekly sermon.

The City of Tavares wants to start taxing its own county. Lake County owns several buildings in downtown Tavares.

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.

LARRY ELL Staff Writer TAVARES -- When it comes to the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, students may take the exam, but everybody shares in the grade.

State Rep. Bryan Nelson, R- Apopka , is hosting a meeting Wednesday night about the possibility for a commuter train that would run from downtown Orlando to downtown Tavares, with numerous stops in between, including Apopka, Zellwood and Eustis.

A Mount Dora woman who is five months pregnant was arrested and charged with attempted murder over the weekend after she followed her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend home and then stabbed the other woman, according to Tavares Police.

About $25 million worth of local water projects will get a $21 million stimulus-fund injection expected to create up to 616 Central Florida jobs.

City Council members this week moved a step closer to creating a fire assessment that could charge residents $153 next year.

Hundreds of school-district employees are eager to know whether an infusion of federal-stimulus money will save their jobs.

A family accused of skimming money from past Fowlerville Family Fairs will have exam conferences Wednesday, June 24 before 53rd District Court Judge Suzanne Geddis.

Tavares - A Leesburg man is being held on five counts of possession of child pornography, after a Lake County deputy discovered his computer was being used to share videos of children engaged in sex acts, according to probable cause affidavit.

The Clermont Downtown Partnership and the city of Clermont invite artists, students and community groups to participate in the third annual sidewalk chalk-art contest during the Summer Art Walk today.

T avares officials are contemplating switching how the city charges for fire protection.

A Tavares teacher was cleared of any wrongdoing in court on Friday. John Salamon was a longtime special education teacher and athletic director at Tavares High School.

Lake County Commissioners reviewed several financing options Tuesday for the Lake Judicial Center expansion project in downtown Tavares.

TAVARES C ity officials think they have found the perfect place for a new public-safety complex.

DAVID DONALD Staff Writer When the Lake County School District eliminates courtesy busing next year, some students living within a two-mile radius of their school will have to walk to school.