As summer 2016 approached, Orange County Public Schools launched its OCPS Reads Initiative, a program developed to encourage students to read over the summer. Jami-Leigh Bartschi,…
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More than 100 members of the Apopka High School Blue Darter Chorus participated in the “A Voice 4 Peace” which is a worldwide awareness project to…
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Fifteen participants at three city locations walked on the first day of the Walk with Ease program offered by the Arthritis Foundation.
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Apopka’s Rachel Lemay, a Covenant College sophomore, was named the USA South Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week.
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Only six months after hiring a new community development director, the city administration will replace the current one, Mark Reggentin, who will soon depart the city of…
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In what was supposed to be a match-up between teams whose mode of winning is controlling the clock through the rush, the outcome was decided by…
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The Avian Reconditioning Center (ARC) invited several Wounded Warrior Project families to the facility, where they saw the birds housed there, had photographs taken with ARC’s eagles and enjoyed lunch.
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“We played well for the majority of the contest, especially the defense,” Mustangs coach Rich Bedesem said after the contest.
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Two Apopka High School alumni, Sebastian Rivera and Jenny Grisales-Cano, were honored at the Apopka Blue Darters football game.
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When Wekiva High School teachers and staff voted this year for Teacher of the Year and Support Person of the Year, they looked to one single…
AHS grad named to national award listThe Apopka Chief
Former Apopka Blue Darter football player and Apopka High graduate Trey Hendrickson has been named to the 90-member watch list for the 22nd annual Chuck Bednarik…
City Council plans vote on city center after workshopThe Apopka Chief
If all goes as planned, the City Council will give a final thumbs-up or thumbs-down on the developer’s agreement for the long-awaited city center at its…
Fireworks, music highlight local 4th eventThe Apopka Chief
For the first time since 2006, the community had an Independence Day celebration in the form of Fireworks at the Amphitheater. The three bands on the…
Questions arise over care of small parkThe Apopka Chief
Hard work and dedication transformed this neglected area into a memorial park honoring the late crew of a NASA space shuttle disaster and was dedicated in…
Ex-spouses, one a cancer survivor, remarryThe Apopka Chief
Yet, even after the divorce, their love for each other never ceased. Mr. Kohliem called Mrs. Kohliem every day during her cancer treatment and her back-and-forth…
Housing non-profit gets a new marketing managerThe Apopka Chief
Habitat for Humanity of Seminole County and Greater Apopka has promoted Brittany Duhrkoff to marketing manager, a role that will include the management of social media,…
Groundbreaking held for 9/11 memorial siteThe Apopka Chief
Many individuals attended the groundbreaking in front of City Hall, where a 9/11 memorial that Boy Scout Christian Lamphere proposed as his Eagle Scout project will…
Funeral held for 2nd Apopka Pulse victimThe Apopka Chief
The second of two Apopka victims of the June 12 massacre at the gay Orlando nightclub Pulse was laid to rest following an emotional funeral at…
Orange County Public Schools buys grocery storeThe Apopka Chief
A small grocery store across the street from Phillis Wheatley Elementary School that not only sold alcohol but had other unsavory activities going on has been…
