United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties is celebrating its Hometown Hero award recipients on April 23 with a Hometown Hero Hoedown.
Since 1974, the Kountanis family has been bringing delicious pizza with a sprinkle of their Greek heritage to Central Florida.
Earlier this month, Lake County Tax Collector David Jordan announced that the office is returning to regular operations and service accessibility.
Cathie Catasus and Joanne Rittenhouse have been named as new members of Trout Lake Nature Center’s board of directors.
The seventh annual Mount Dora Blueberry Festival is scheduled for April 24–25 in Donnelly Park, when local blueberries are sweet, ripe and perfect to pick.
Water conservation is at the heart of the St. Johns River Water Management District’s mission, and at a March district governing board meeting, members approved a proclamation that designates April 2021 as Water Conservation Month.
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I’ve tried to help our readers understand how the state of Florida government managed to cut taxes at the state level every year since 2009. To keep the state budget in balance, the state transferred the costs those taxes used to pay for down to local government. It is good old-fashioned bai…
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Mr. Raymond Lewis Guenther, lifetime resident of Altoona, Florida, died on April 8, 2021, from complications of a stroke. He was 78 years old.
Richard (Rick) Russell Livingston passed away on the afternoon of November 18, 2020 in Anderson, South Carolina at 71 years of age. He was born in Lakeland, Florida on April 29, 1949 as the first born child of Nelda Forehand Livingston and Wiley Richard Livingston, Jr. He served in the Unite…
Millie Rue Romney Dunn age 100 of Mount Dora, Fl, formerly of New Smyrna Beach FL and Westwood, MA, died peacefully on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 joining her pre-deceased husband of 68 years James Owen Dunn Sr. She was born in Salt Lake City, UT on August 11, 1920. She graduated from the Univ…
Eugene John Campbell was born on March 19, 1935 in Nassau, Bahamas Island and passed away in Sumterville, Florida on February 13 2021.
Cameron Lee Cruz, age 43, passed away unexpectedly in Mount Dora, Florida on December 5, 2020. Cameron was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan at Blodgett Memorial Hospital. Cam was beloved at every school he was at, starting at Crestwood Elementary in Rockford, Michigan where he became fast frie…
Raymond “Ray” Ordell Halverson (1934-2020) went home to be with the Lord on Jan. 22, 2020 at the age of 85 after a short but rough battle with cancer. The funeral service will be held at Trinity Evangelical Free Church, 890 Abrams Road, Eustis, Florida at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28. It will al…