Hello Folks, I hope you had a great weekend and you got a chance to do some fishin’. Unfortunately for me, my fishin’ buddy was out of the town and we didn’t…
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Last season, Alexis Rieli wrote a chapter of Apopka High School sports history. Rieli was the first Blue Darter to advance to a girls regional championship…
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The Apopka Talons Lacrosse Club team played in the second weekend of a three-weekend tournament on Sunday, October 7, at Ward Park in Winter Park.
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Apopka Blue Darters football player Akeem Brown was named the Baptiste Orthodontics Male Athlete of the Month for September for Apopka High School.
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A year after dismantling Jacksonville Mandarin, the Apopka Blue Darters scheduled the Mustangs for homecoming this year. However, a much-improved Mandarin squad turned the tables on…
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Next up and being played today, Friday, October 12, is a road contest against the Evans Trojans.
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Most years, the football game between the Apopka Blue Darters and the West Orange Warriors is a hard-fought battle.
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The era of the Dr. Phillips Panthers football team dominating the Wekiva Mustangs on an annual basis is long gone. In fact, Wekiva is now doing…
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Zavitz, 23, of Orlando, succeeds Lindsay Bettis of St. Augustine. The Miss Apopka Scholarship Pageant is open to residents living within a 90-mile radius of Apopka.
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Triniti Thomas, now 13, was an 11-year-old student at Altamonte Christian School when she penned “How Did She Do It?”, about her grandmother Corliss Elmore’s coping…
Protesting school’s ruleThe Apopka Chief
About a dozen protestors held signs and chanted Friday, August 17, in front of A Book’s Christian Academy, an Apopka private school, after a 6-year-old child…
Bear-resistant cartThe Apopka Chief
This example of a bear cart that may soon be offered to some by the city of Apopka for garbage service is located in the atrium…
Water will flow at splash pad on weekends through mid-Oct.The Apopka Chief
The long-awaited Apopka splash pad will open Saturday, August 25, with a 10 a.m. ribbon cutting. Located at Kit Land Nelson Park off Park Avenue between…
Early voting ends Sunday as primary set for TuesdayThe Apopka Chief
In Apopka, the early-voting site will be at the Apopka Community Center/VFW, 519 S. Central Avenue. As with the 14 other sites across Orange County, the…
School and fall sports are underway, so take advantage now of great savings at Optical EyelandThe Apopka Chief
Many people made their list of things to do and purchase in order to properly prepare their children for the school year. You’ve bought clothes, notebooks,…
You know about 911 – what about 811The Apopka Chief
Submitted by Lake Apopka Natural Gas District As summer comes to a close, you may have some home improvement projects to wrap up and check off…
Area fishin’ continues to be goodThe Apopka Chief
Nine-year-old Logan Edwards shows the 5-1/2-pound bass he caught using a Junebug speed worm. Hello Folks, It was another good weekend for fishin’. Folks were…
Mustangs dispatch two teamsThe Apopka Chief
After advancing to the state finals for the first time last season, the Wekiva Mustangs participated in a day of scrimmages last Saturday, August 11. Scrimmages…
Scrimmages were fine, but tougher play starts nowThe Apopka Chief
While neither team went up against a powerhouse program in the officials’ scrimmages held Saturday, August 11, both teams performed very well against their opponents during the two quarters of action.
Apopka whips Mount Dora in two-quarter scrimmageThe Apopka Chief
It was only a scrimmage and for just two quarters, but the Apopka Blue Darters football team scored early and often as the Blue Darters tallied…