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Ivanhoe Village

Cool and groovy In Ivanhoe Village

You'll find some cool furniture, vintage clothing and colorful art in the Ivanhoe Village.

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Fringe: Weird and always wondrous

Having grown into a makes-my-heart-glad-celebration of theater, art and music, Fringe presents hundreds of theater works.

Steadfast in its non-juried wackiness, often weird and always wondrous, the 21st Annual Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival is the oldest, non-juried festival in the United States.

Louis Roney: The best of all possible happenings

The theater at Trinity Prep School in Winter Park continues to be the setting for a great many exhibitions of what fine natural histrionic talent and wise guidance can accomplish.

That high school students would tackle a work on the level of Bernstein’s “Candide” is remarkable in itself.

Chris Jepson: Take God shopping

We’re moving along at glacier speeds compared to the rapid turn (evolution?) in the acceptance of gays.

I came up with the child advisory about mankind’s condition, “Fasten your seatbelt, kids, it’s gonna be a rough ride.”

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John Whipple: An artist’s artist

The room where all John Whipple's materials are kept has a frosted glass window that reads “Surgery,” and it seems apropos.

That whole glass half empty, half full thing could get a bit complicated with someone like local artist John Whipple.

Tom Carey: Peas right for summer

Who has time to shell peas and beans these days? If you harvest early, the solid, young pea pods can be prepared like snap beans, shell and all.

As summer growing conditions approach, black-eyed peas (not the hip-hop musical group), crowder peas, yard-long beans and cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) can be grown in our gardens as a substitute for green snap beans.

Pandora’s box of tests you don’t need

What if a screening test performed in a local parking lot “suggested” that perhaps something might be wrong.

Some screening tests make very good sense, can find problems early, and make a difference in your health.

Winter Park City Talk

213 cities and towns, including Winter Park, have earned recognition from national non-profit KaBOOM!

Maitland City Talk

Wekiva Parkway

To commit now monetary funding to the Wekiva Parkway does not properly address our present and immediate future transportation needs.

Introduction blog

Let's do a LOCAL, DAILY blog. This is supposed to be about US, our LOCAL community, so I'm going to need YOUR help.

I started my first new weekly column in the Winter Park Maitland Observer a few weeks ago with ‘HELLO . . . Winter Park’. And already something new.

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Fit For the Fourth Day 20

Best foods to eat when you are starving: Whole grain cereal, tabouli, broccoli and raspberries

Insider Information from Health Coach Sue Grafton.

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Fit For the Fourth Day 19

Reevaluate with health coach Sue Grafton

Reevaluate with health coach Sue Grafton on Day 19!

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Fit for the Fourth: Day 18

Leadership Winter Park's Sports and Leisure Day is a workout!

Sarah Grafton hosts Leadership Winter Park's Sports and Leisure Day. Winter Park has a lot to offer in the way of a workout.

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Fit for the Fourth: Day 12

Sarah Grafton runs a 5k!

Maitland City Talk

Proclamations week!

Maitland has proclaimed the week of May 20 through May 26 as “Emergency Medical Services Week.”

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