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GOVERNMENT

Orange County Commissioners vote for Map 7B, adding two more districts to county landscape

In 5-2 vote, the county chose the map that created two Black- and three Hispanic-plurality districts. New commissioners will be elected in 2026.

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GOVERNMENT

Winter Garden boosts cemetery burial prices more than 200 percent

Changes to city ordinance now limits interment rights to immediate family, restricts monument height and attempts to prevent plot resale.

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LEGAL MATTERS

Judge rules Windermere has no rights to Palmer Park boathouses, never had right to lease access to properties

Circuit Court Judge John E. Jordan: “It would be grossly inequitable and shock the public conscience if a government body would take away a citizen’s private property rights by virtue of the fact that those citizens were effectively coerced to pay nominal rent to have access to their own private property.”

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HOMELESSNESS

Ocoee steps up arrests of homeless people for sleeping outside

For the first eight months of 2025 the city made no arrests. Then within three weeks in August and September, five men were arrested for unauthorized camping.

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