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Community: Winter Garden

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Winter Garden weighs fee assessment to fund fire rescue, basic EMS services

Based on property size and service usage, the fee is one way the city is considering to close a budget gap between property taxes and rising costs for protective services.

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FIRST AMENDMENT

Kaitlin Bennett returns to the Winter Garden Farmers Market

And absolutely nothing happened. And, really, that's a good thing.

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FIRST AMENDMENT

Winter Garden rescinds trespass warning given to far-right commentator

Kaitlin Bennett, creator of the right-wing site Liberty Hangout, was doing on-camera interviews for her YouTube channel when Winter Garden Police told her she could not film at the Winter Garden Farmers Market. Then she schooled the city on the First Amendment.

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GOVERNMENT

Winter Garden mayor won’t say if non-Christians are welcome in city

Asked during the May 8 city commission meeting, the mayor stayed silent.

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ORANGE COUNTY REDISTRICTING

Winter Garden to petition to stay with sibling cities during redistricting

Winter Garden residents told the Orange County Mid-Decennial Redistricting Advisory Committee they envision dividing District 1 into two districts with Horizon West in one and the older communities like Winter Garden, Oakland and Windermere in another.

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PARKS AND REC

Winter Garden votes for discussion, referendum on mixed-use development and sports complex

Residents concerned project will overwhelm city with traffic, visitors

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PEDAL PUSHERS

7 ways to make your town more bike friendly

Driving less and pedaling more helps reduce carbon emissions. Our reporter went to the Florida Bike Summit to learn how we can all make our communities safer for biking.

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CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

Cities say replacing SROs with armed Guardians is OCPS idea

Ocoee city manager: None of the five cities advocates not having a trained, sworn law enforcement officer in these schools to protect students.

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