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APD honors policeman

The Apopka Police Department honored Officer Josean Velez-Cantres with the Officer of the Second Quarter Award. According to Apopka Police Department members, Velez has...

Lake Apopka Natural Gas District nets award

Lake Apopka Natural Gas District, a local natural gas system serving customers in West Orange and South Lake Counties, received the American Public Gas...

New member welcomed

Rotary Club of Apopka president Deb Perez, (l), and member Dr. Kristine Sands, (c), welcome the club’s newest member Dr. Kirk K. Kohil. Read...

Darters claim National Bowling Championship

Three state championships, two individual boys state championships, a second place in girls state championship competition, two district championships as well as an undefeated...

Crying Towel Invitational to feature local coaches

The 2016 Crying Towel Invitational will include Apopka High football coach Rick Darlington. The event will be hosted by Apopka High alumnus Roger Williams...

Parkland leaves no doubt as to the best at Regional

Becoming the second consecutive team from Florida to claim the Little League Intermediate age division (12-13 years old) national Southeast Region championship and advance...

Alex Nicholson returns to UFC ring

It took two attempts but Apopka native, Alex Nicholson notched his first victory as a part of the Ultimate Fighting Championship roster. Taking on...

Athletes training hard

See more photos of Apopka and Wekiva High training for their football season on pages 4 and 5 in this week's Apopka Chief. Never...

Softball team’s season ends

There was no doubt the Apopka Little League 11-12 softball all-star team played as hard as it could in an effort to claim the...

Roads face closures for Wekiva Parkway work

As part of building the Wekiva Parkway, road crews will close one local road for a month while intermittently closing another road. Find out...