Calling all artists! The Leesburg Center for the Arts (CFA) is placing a Request for Proposals from Emerging Artists for the Downtown Leesburg Storefront Art Program. Individual artists will have their work on display in storefront windows of empty buildings for a set period of three months.
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Amp it Up at the Library! Kicking off the new year, and a new programming series outside in the amphitheater, the Paul DeRitter Trio performs Saturday, January 9 at 1:00 pm at the Leesburg Public Library Read more
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(The Center Square) – Gov. Ron DeSantis will not adjust Florida's COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan to prioritize front-line workers, such as grocery store clerks, and will continue to target elderly residents. Read more
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“Last week Dunn-Rankin’s column stated that the government was taking 40% of his profits. I believe he should take a close look at his bookkeeper or accountant. The corporate tax rate is 21% flat, or better yet get Donald Trump’s accountant. The Donald didn’t pay any taxes 10 of the last 15 … Read more
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Effective Dec. 18 and until further notice, the two Florida Department of Health in Lake County COVID-19 testing sites will be at Cooper Memorial Library, 2525 Oakley Seaver Dr, Clermont, and DOH-Lake Leesburg WIC, 1904 Griffin Road, Leesburg. Read more
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) began vaccinating veterans and frontline employees last week, following the Food and Drug Administration’s Dec. 11 decision to issue an Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Read more
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Lake-Sumter State College will host a TEDx event Feb. 12, 2021, at the Paul P. Williams Auditorium in Leesburg, focused on the theme of IGNITE from 9am-3:30pm. Read more
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A Lady Lake man was arrested early Wednesday morning after detectives with the Lake County sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau, along with the sheriff’s SWAT Team and detectives from the Clermont, Eustis, and Leesburg Police Departments, served a drug search warrant at his home. The inve… Read more
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The Leesburg Night Market is returning Friday, Dec. 18. Read more
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“Last week Dunn-Rankin’s column stated that the government was taking 40% of his profits. I believe he should take a close look at his bookkeeper or accountant. The corporate tax rate is 21% flat, or better yet get Donald Trump’s accountant. The Donald didn’t pay any taxes 10 of the last 15 … Read more
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“Hey David. Your column about politicians not respecting small business blamed both Republicans and Democrats for the delay in passing another COVID-19 relief package. Read more
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A bullying unappreciative partner. There’s no other way to describe it. Read more
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In 2008, I told my family, before I retired in 2030, my electric car would drive me to work. I would sit in the back seat, reading the morning newspaper, as the car carried me to work. I would charge my car at night through solar panels on my home’s roof and have no fuel costs. Read more
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“OK, Google, I’m ready for my morning medical check-in.” Read more
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As the nation celebrates our 17 million living veterans, it is also important to know that the number of these heroes who are ending their own lives prematurely is rising. Read more
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Another fellow American is dying from COVID-19 while you read this sentence. Read more
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It feels like we are in a unique moment in history. Read more
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Sometimes I get emails from readers that sound something like this: “You liberal lamestream media are the enemies of the state.” Read more
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about how 10 percent of all the drivers on Florida roads are driving on a suspended license. This epidemic of suspended licenses is because Florida imposes heavy court fees we expect everyone to pay, regardless of their income. If you can’t pay your fees and… Read more
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Trees on top of buses and cars. Roofs ripped off homes. Boats pushed onto the highway by surging seawater. Hundreds of thousands of people left in the dark.
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Tragedy can be around any corner. What seems to be a totally normal and average life can be taken away in an instant, and in that same moment lives will change forever.
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Friday, Nov. 20, the Leesburg Craft Beer, Food and Wine Festival will go as scheduled for 2020.
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It's been 14 years since Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) stormed the shores of the United States from his Kazakhstan home. He came to report on America, but got sidetracked. Now, after years spent in a labor camp for the disgrace he caused his homeland, Borat has been released and sent back to the…