Tag: Oakland

The Healthy West Orange Arts and Heritage Center includes some of its Black history with Est. 1887, its opening exhibit about the Town of Oakland's origins.

New zoning ordinance for dark-sky compliant outdoor lighting unanimously approved.

Operation will help reduce town’s reliance on drinking water for irrigation.

“White Lives Matter” propaganda marks Winter Garden’s second hate-speech incident in two weeks.

Conservation, wastewater and redundancy projects take priority to keep pace with population growth.

Town Manager Steve Koontz anticipates "a lot more golf cart traffic" with the completion of three residential roads.

In 1950 and 1951, the Ku Klux Klan brutally murdered two young Black men from Oakland who worked in the citrus fields. For decades, the stories were passed down in whispers—if they were shared at all. Now, the town is finally, publicly, acknowledging what happened 70 years ago.

Commissioner cleans up with 71 percent of the vote.

The candidates are vying for Seat 1 on the Town Commission in Oakland’s first contested election in 16 years.

"I can put out all the signs, and I can hand out all these cards, but it does no good at all unless people go and vote."