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Winter Garden marked Juneteenth 2023 with a celebratory event at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church.

State Rep. LaVon Bracy Davis (D-District 40), Thursday urged fellow lawmakers to vote against House Bill 9 that would overhaul the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the special tax district encompassing Disney property in Orange and Osceola counties.

The Dover Kohl team listened to community member ideas and produced a 3D model film to bring the concepts to life. There's $22 million in the CRA budget to build. One question remains: Is the plan on track?

Urban planners from Dover Kohl met with East Winter Garden residents, business owners and community leaders over three days to get input about their visions for community revitalization. VoxPopuli takes you inside these meetings to put together a 20-year plan that was begun in 2017.

In our exclusive interview, Dover Kohl urban planner Jason King, who specializes in revitalizing African-American communities, talks about affordable housing, sustainable businesses, utilizing the CRA to create jobs, and bringing a grocery store to this food desert.

Winter Garden's city commission inches closer to annexing the remaining 60-plus, Orange County-governed residential properties in the historic Black neighborhood, with an important change.

It's a nonpartisan civic holiday to get Americans registered to vote because as many as 1 in 4 who are eligible aren't registeredt. VoxPopuli talked with Equal Ground's Nicole Benton about how Florida has a new law that aims to suppress voters' rights.

Pastor Hodge trains for the Selma-to-Montgomery Civil Rights March as he also tries to raise awareness about "racial tensions" in East Winter Garden.

A New York first responder who was at Ground Zero on 9/11 created an exhibit “to keep that memory alive.”

The Winter Garden city manager reports on status of city's ambulance service launch, emergency rental assistance and other matters of interest to residents.

At the Florida Legislative Update Thursday, during a gathering of local Black lawmakers, VoxPopuli asked state Sen. Randolph Bracy (D) about his scholarship/Ocoee Massacre reparations fund that was passed during the legislative session.

On Jan. 18, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, Pastor Anthony Hodge, founder of Finding the Lost Sheep Ministry, delivered a dynamic performance of King's iconic "I Have A Dream" speech at Winter Garden City Hall.