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Community: Winter Garden

GOVERNMENT

Winter Garden to distribute welcome packets with new code compliance brochure

Winter Garden's new code compliance brochure tells residents how to keep the city "inviting and beautiful for all.”

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PRESS FREEDOM

Winter Garden implements new rules for media coverage of city meetings

First Amendment experts call resolution “unconstitutional.”

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An American flag painting in Winter Garden’s Black History Month exhibit encapsulates the Black experience in the U.S. — and the raging debate about teaching it.

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CHABAD brings Chanukah to Winter Garden

Record crowd turns out downtown for menorah lighting, latkes, klezmer music

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HOLIDAY HYPOCRISY

Winter Garden whiffs on Chanukah festivities

The city’s holiday marketing materials promoted numerous Christmas events while omitting the single Jewish event of the season.

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IN MEMORIAM

Pastor Hodge 1961-2022

With his death on Oct. 17, Winter Garden loses a fierce community advocate and a loving spiritual leader.

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HOW the Central Florida Expressway Authority (accidentally) saved an east Winter Garden neighborhood

Prep for the SR 429 expansion kept the E. Bay Street area from flooding out during Hurricane Ian.

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SCHEDULING SNAFU

Winter Garden reschedules city commission and budget meeting for Jewish holy day

Winter Garden Mayor to Jewish community: "We apologize and ... okay."

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Environmental Groups to PureCycle: Leave East Winter Garden Alone!

Leaders of 50 nongovernmental organizations sent a letter requesting the corporation find a new location for its “unwelcome plastics facility”

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