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Tag: Winter Garden

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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WINTER GARDEN

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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COMMUNITY SERVICES

The HUBB of it all

The Foundation for a Healthier West Orange’s website connects residents to the housing, health, legal and financial resources all around the area.

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WINTER GARDEN

THE Garden Theatre Staff Has Something To Say ...

As the drama at the Garden Theatre between its board of directors and staff spilled into the community, the staff put out a statement on the theatre's Facebook page. The post was removed. We're publishing it here in full.

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GOVERNMENT

Winter Garden city commission unanimously passes first diversity resolution

Mayor John Rees: “We tried to do something that was for everybody.”

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GOVERNMENT

Winter Garden City Commission to vote on first diversity, equity and inclusion statement during Pride Month

A former KKK stronghold, Winter Garden is now poised to pass a resolution stating that "hate, racial injustice, discrimination of any kind, and the politics of division, including social marginalization, will have no place in our City."

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GOVERNMENT

Residency requirement waived for new city manager by Winter Garden commissioners

Ballot initiative to repeal “relic” city charter requirement slated for March 2023 municipal election.

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REDISTRICTING

Winter Garden gets new voting districts

City Commission debates “Beta Map”; unanimously approves Districting Commission’s map.

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ELECTIONS

"It's a fairer map"

Could a late-addition map that boosts District 3’s minority population disrupt the redistricting process?

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GARDEN THEATRE

Garden Theatre holds a mirror to Central Florida's culture of bigotry and hate, past and present

Parade, the musical about the lynching that reawakened the KKK, gets a showing in a former Klan stronghold.

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