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  • Ronnie Lovler

    Ronnie Lovler has 40 years of experience in journalism, including assignments all over Latin America for CNN and CBS. Ronnie teaches journalism at UF and public speaking at Santa Fe College. She was a recent fellow in the Gerontological Society of America’s Journalists in Aging Fellows Program and a previous Knight International Journalism Fellow in Bogota, Colombia. She is an editor and contributor for the book titled, Local Lives in a Global Pandemic: Stories from North Central Florida and a contributing author to the anthology Alone Together: Tales of Sisterhood and Solitude in Latin America. She began her career in journalism at the San Juan Star in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ronnie resides in Gainesville and loves to travel.

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The 2022 Apopka Chamber Business Awards, which spotlight the best in the city’s business community, took place at the Hilton Garden Inn Apopka City Center in…
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December 9, 2022
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December 9, 2022
Surrounded by hundreds of friends, family members and supporters, District 2 Commissioner Christine Moore and three others took the oath of office in front of the…
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December 9, 2022
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September 23, 2022
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AFD members join local and firefighters from across the state to scale 110 flights of stairs.
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September 16, 2022
In two separate votes, the Apopka City Council unanimously finalized the fiscal year 2023 millage rate.
Never forgetThe Apopka Chief
September 16, 2022
Apopka Police Chief Michael McKinley rings a bell in honor of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Blue Darters claim season’s second one-point victoryThe Apopka Chief
September 16, 2022
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