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Winter Garden considers scrapping its $1M recycling program
Nov 20, 2024 · In every district of the city, residents are treating recycling containers like extra garbage bins — one reason the city is considering scrapping its $1 million recycling program.
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Oakland launches recall drive - wintergardenvox.com
Apr 18, 2024 · Commissioners Rick Polland and Joseph McMullen in the crosshairs. The moment Oakland’s April 9 public work session ended with three commissioners nominating unsuccessful mayoral candidate Sal Ramos to his former seat on the commission, resident Anne Fulton set up a bench outside of the Oakland Meeting Hall with petitions to start a recall campaign to remove them all. “Please go outside ...
Winter Garden lacks opponents, cancels municipal election
Jan 29, 2023 · Winter Garden’s qualifying period for mayor and District 1 city commissioner closed at noon Tuesday with only Mayor John Rees, seeking a sixth term, and Commissioner Lisa Bennett, seeking her third, filing candidacy paperwork to run, according to City Clerk Angela Grimmage. Neither had an opponent, so both are automatically re-elected, and no …
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East Winter Garden receives new name, historic designation
Feb 10, 2024 · An ebullient crowd of residents packed the commission chambers Feb. 8, 2024, for the passage of Resolution 23-04, which established the Historic East Winter Garden Neighborhood as a new historic district with a new name to reflect its new status.
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Jan 20, 2021 · State Rep. LaVon Bracy Davis (D-District 40), Thursday urged fellow lawmakers to vote against House Bill 9 that would overhaul the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the special tax district encompassing Disney property in Orange and Osceola counties.
Oakland’s Outrage - VoxPopuli
Apr 11, 2024 · Sal Ramos rejoins town commission sparking residents’ anger, allegations of commissioners’ collusion and a recall drive. Shock, fury, frustration and allegations of collusion flooded Oakland’s Meeting Hall Tuesday after three commissioners each nominated former Commissioner Sal Ramos to fill the open Seat 3 that he had vacated to run unsuccessfully for mayor in the March 19 election. The ...
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