Mount Dora Middle School Welcomes New Principal
Jim Polk, 30, is the new Mount Dora Middle School principal. He aims to make the school a place kids love, with happy teachers and open parent access. Classes start Aug 29 for about 580 students and 27 teachers, and a new portable classroom will hold Educable Mentally Retarded classes.
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Mount Dora Middle School
Jim Polk
Polk
Leesburg High Schoo
University of Florida
Leesburg High
MDMS
Con
Nancy
Leesburg
Presbyterian ‘Church
Mount Dora OKs 50,000-Gallon LP Gas Tank Plan
State fire officials assure residents after inspecting the Highland Street site that safety measures meet code. Harris Oil & Gas plans a white tank with blue lettering near a highway, with city fire and police prep for possible incidents and a planned October fill.
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Harris Oil & Gas Corp
Sou Wea Street
Mount Dora
A. M. Liveright
South Highland Street
Bill Allen
State Office
Elwyn Fretwell
Central Florida
Mount
L. D. Bales
Harris Oil & Gas Corporation
Highland Street
Brandon Wald
Harris
Allen
Robert Penley
Baker Street
Roseborough traffic flow revised near elementary school
Mount Dora police chief Robert Locke announced a one way change on Clayton Street by Roseborough Elementary School. The new schedule runs 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. and 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. on school days with entry from Fifth Avenue and exit on Seventh Avenue to ease congestion.
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Clayton Street
Roseborough
Mount Dora
Robert Locke
Clayton
Fifi Avenue
Fifth
Seventh Avenue
Unemployment Office Moves to Highland Street in Mount Dora
The Mount Dora unemployment office will relocate to the American Legion buildings on Highland Street effective Sept 1 due to recent line delays at the Community Building. Mount Dora police report five burglaries solved in two months with three juveniles aged nine to 13 in custody. Burglaries targeted Garden Gate Village Florist Mount Dora High School and the Station on Fifth Avenue and Highland Street. Investigator Sohn Mitchell confirms juveniles are in custody.
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Mount Dora
State Bureau of Unemployment Compisation
American Giont
Pe Highland Street
Garden Gate Village
Mount Dora High School
Fifth Avenue
Highland Street
Sohn Mitchell
Police Department
Mount Dora Weather Report Totals Rainfall Year to Date
The Mount Dora Fire Department weather station records show high and low temperatures since August 17. Precipitation for the period totaled 0.48 inches, bringing the year’s rainfall to 24.34 inches.
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Mount Dora
Mount Dora Receives Two EDA Grants for Public Works
Two Economic Development Administration grants totaling 476000 aid Mount Dora. A 406100 project paves 15 blocks with drainage and sewers and two lift stations, and a 69900 grant funds new water systems. Onsite work begins this week with engineers Sverdrup and Parcel. Second round of grants under a 4 billion jobs bill funds city improvements.
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Economic Development Administration
Mount Dora
Richard Kelly
Washington, D. C
EDA
City Council
Baker Street
12Th Avenue
Lincoln Avenue
Hacket Street
Lincoln
Jackson Avenue
Grant Avenue
Tremain
Grandview Street
Simpson Street
Rhodes Street
Camp Avenue
First Avenue
Orange Avenue
Grandview
Clayton Street
Michigan Street
Johns Avenue
Oak Avenue
Lake Franklin Park
Highland Street
Pinland
Sverdrup & Parcel of
Ocala
Frank Clifton
Washington
Canadene
Mount Dora Council Sets Aug 30 Special Meeting
Mount Dora city council president Dean Van Landingham calls a special meeting for 8 pm Tuesday August 30 in city hall to discuss surplus city property a garbage and sanitation franchise ordinance revisions a centralized recreation complex near the city barn seeking federal funds summer recreation program and leases with the Lawn Bowling Club and Shuffleboard Club the public is welcome.
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Mount Dora
Dean van Landingham
City Hall
Lawn Bowling Club
Shuffleboard Club
New Triangle Elementary Principal Brings decades of service
David Treadway, a veteran Lake County educator, becomes principal at Triangle Elementary School in Mount Dora. He has held roles from director of personnel to migrant program coordinator, started teaching in 1955, earned a UF education degree, and holds master’s degrees in administration. He is married with three children and is a deacon in Tavares.
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Lake County
Triangle
Mount Dora
David Treadway
Tavares
Treadway
University of Florida
Lee Educational Center
Leesburg
Army
Eadway
Beverly
Ann Frier
Georgia
David Jr
Ashley
Ame
America
Union Congregational Church of
Jo Tucker rises to sergeant in Mount Dora Police
Sergeant Jo Tucker, a former crossing guard turned first female Lake County patrol officer, was promoted last December in Mount Dora. Born in Franklin Kentucky, she trained at Vo-Tech and attended local academies in Florida.
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Jo Tucker
Mount Dora
Lake County
Ms. Tucker
Franklin
Vo-Tech
Golan
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Penley
Carroll Griggs
Griggs
Ward
Oil & Gas
Jim Harris Jr
Triangle Elementary School
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