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The Bloom Lounge, an expanded concept combining floral services, a café, and creative workspace, opened with a ribbon-cutting and block party in Apopka. The Bloom Lounge is an expansion of The Apopka Florist, which operated for about 50 years on Main Street. The Bloom Lounge's grand opening event attracted...

Sub lovers in Winter Garden may have a new reason to stroll downtown. Cosa Nostra Italian Deli, a popular Clermont sandwich shop, has filed plans to open a second location on Plant Street in downtown Winter Garden. Paperwork shows the prospective storefront at 32 W Plant Street, a notable expansion play for the family-run deli.

Apopka schools received and fully spent over $75,000 in donations from Goliath Ventures for school clubs and a band trip to London. Bankruptcy proceedings have subpoenaed records of charities receiving funds from Goliath Ventures, raising the possibility they must return donations. Christopher Alexander Delgado is charged with wire fraud and...

Winter Park, Fla. — Golfers in Winter Park are facing an unexpected closure at a popular city-owned course after a maintenance mistake left several greens unplayable. The Winter Park 9 Golf Course — known as WP9 — has been shut down following an inadvertent chemical application that severely damaged the grass.

Orlando residents opening their latest utility bills were met with the kind of sticker shock that can ruin a week. After a city billing correction added retroactive sewer charges, some OUC customers suddenly owed hundreds more than usual, with the unexpected line items labeled as wastewater service "corrections." The surprise hit has already pushed some prepaid accounts into the red, and officials say they...

After years of punishing premiums and last-minute fixes, Central Florida commercial property owners are quietly rewriting their insurance playbooks as the long-running hard market finally shows some give. Following steep rate hikes and scarce capacity that shoved many landlords into temporary, bare-bones programs, some are now shopping for renewals, restoring previously stripped-out coverages and weighing bigger deductibles or self-insurance...

“A lot of the culture that’s now core to Rolling Loud started in Orlando with those early Dope ENT shows,” he tells Orlando Weekly. In some ways, the 2026 festival feels like a homecoming, he says. The post Music festival Rolling Loud is poised to make a big debut in Orlando this weekend appeared first on Orlando Weekly .

ORLANDO, Fla. – A plea hearing for an Orange County woman accused of helping run a multimillion-dollar immigration scam was scheduled in error. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Juliana Colucci, her husband, and two associates posed as lawyers at Legacy Imigra and promised to help people living in the country illegally. Instead, investigators said the group defrauded clients out of thousands of...

Cooks be using their noodles to recognize the love we have for hand-ripped squigglers in this town. Clearly the throngs at Walala and Slap!, Red Panda Noodle and chef Hung Huynh’s Bang Bang Noodle Co. pop-up, are a sign we need oodles more. Enter Eric Jiang. The man behind omakase house Sushi Izuki will debut […] The post Jiang’s Kitchen will slap biang...

The Coral Springs Police Department has outlined a detailed timeline in the disappearance of Skylee Merino, revealing the 15-year-old traveled across multiple South Florida cities and into Central Florida after she was first reported missing. In an updated statement released Tuesday, investigators emphasized that while Merino’s behavior has raised concerns...