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Christian school basketball team land playoff spots.
Christian Learning Academy (CLA), a private Christian school in Apopka, is in its second year of having varsity girls and varsity boys basketball.
Mustangs face Trojans in final district contest of regular season
Wekiva head coach Gersino Lubin talks to his players Tuesday, January 30, during the Mustangs’ game at Evans. Find out who won this game on page…
Blue Darters split two final regular-season district games.
Malice Jackson comes up with the ball after he and Wekiva’s Tyrone Perry scramble for possession of the ball. Read the outcome of these games against…
Blue Darters vs Dr. Phillips at district title
Brooke Schulz (3) battles a Dr. Phillips player for possession of the ball. Find out which team won the district title.
Rotary Club sorts donated supplies for schools
Volunteers from the Rotary Club of Apopka sorted donated school supplies for Apopka area schools
Celebrating the lives of four women
Florida Living Nursing Center recognized four women 100 years of age and older with a Celebration of Life event.
Students write poems about the 1918 tornaado of Apopka
These students from kindergarten through fifth grade wrote poems about the 1918 tornado of Apopka. They read their work at a January 11 event marking the…
Apopka High School to perform James and the Giant Peach
The Apopka High School Theater Department will hold its second mainstage production for the 2017-2018 school year. The department will perform “James and the Giant Peach”…
Tropical Smoothie Cafe cuts ribbon
The Apopka Area Chamber of Commerce greeted Tropical Smoothie Cafe with a ribbon cutting.
Military dutyThe Apopka Chief
At the Arabian Gulf, Seaman Orlando Rodriguez, from Apopka, empties waste into a pulping machine in a waste processing room aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight…
Aquaponics project gets grantThe Apopka Chief
The Wekiva High School Aquaponics STEM Learning Project received a grant on Monday, October 31, in a presentation at the high school’s media center. Presenting the check…
Apopka’s tastiest treats will be together on November 17The Apopka Chief
New for this year’s Taste of Apopka are Don Black as a performer and celebrity judges from the local CBS-TV affiliate WKMG, Kirstin O’Connor and Justin…
Pop Warner cheer, football teams moving on in postseasonThe Apopka Chief
Cheerleading and football squads from the Apopka Pop Warner youth organization have advanced to the next level of competition after action on Saturday, October 22, and…
Company doubling spaceThe Apopka Chief
JK2 Scenic, a full-service theming contractor, is more than doubling its workshop and office space in Apopka. As part of the $1.5 million project, the division will…
Early voting, mail voting continues ahead of electionThe Apopka Chief
Any registered Orange County voter may vote at the Apopka site or at any of the other early-voting locations throughout the county. All of the early-voting…
Girl gives donated stuffed animals to city’s first respondersThe Apopka Chief
Wolf Lake Middle School and the neighboring Wolf Lake Elementary School donated over 500 stuffed animals to the non-profit organization We Care Bears Project, which eighth…
Lakeville staff member nominated for OCPS awardThe Apopka Chief
A Lakeville Elementary School staff member is one of five Orange County Public School employees named as a finalist for the district’s 2017 Support Person of…
Apopka High student lands countywide honorThe Apopka Chief
Julianne Mazzaro, a senior Apopka High School student in the Advanced Engineering magnet, has been selected as the Career Technical Education (CTE) representative from Orange County…
Teachers receive donated booksThe Apopka Chief
School teachers went to the Fran Carlton Recreation Center to select from donated books the city and Goodwill Industries of Central Florida collected, cleaned and prepared…