Lake County School Board Faces Ridaught Complaint
The Lake County School Board was to meet at 9 a m Wednesday to answer a formal complaint by Hubert E Ridaught Mount Dora Middle School principal filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court after a request for a hearing on a non administrative transfer went unanswered within 15 days as Florida law requires. Ridaught says he has a continuing administrator contract while the board contends the contract is as a teacher and the board has 20 days to respond.
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Lake County
Roy Christopher
Fourth of July celebration at Gilbert Park Mount Dora
Public invited to join the Fourth of July event in Gilbert Park Mount Dora on July 4. Pancake breakfast at 7 am, flea market and concessions 9 am to 6 pm, parade at 11 am from 11th and Donnelly to the park, activities run all day with free admission and parade entries welcome.
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Gilbert Park
Mount Dora
Rainbow Girls
Independence Jubilee
P. O
Nevee Dora
Mount Dora Weather Records Update
The Mount Dora Fire Department weather station shows temperatures since June 1 with a total precipitation of 1.13 inches and annual rainfall reaching 11.61 inches.
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Mount Dora Fire Department
Theeriod
Mount Dora Voters Face Charter Referendum Next Tuesday
Mount Dora voters will decide on a proposed new city charter adopted in 1953, altering mayor and council powers, park board relations, term lengths, and adding initiative referendum and recall provisions. The charter consolidates 67 sections into 45, aligns with state law, and sets a June ballot alongside an annexation question.
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Mount Dora
Park Commission
Park Commissioners
Cil
Mount Dora Park
Frank Clifton
Mount Dora appoints an administrator by ordinance
Mount Dora council approves an ordinance assigning city clerk duties as city administrator effective after mayoral nonaction. The measure passed final reading May 17, with voters to decide on a permanent administrator in December. The meeting also granted a revised 30 year Florida Telephone license and discussed utility revenue and a potential sale to Florida Power. Coach Willie Poole criticizes a summer recreation department hiring decision amid discrimination claims.
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Mount Dora
Jeff Ray III
Ray
Howard Cox
Brandon Wald
Florida Telephone Corporation
FTC
Liveright
Cox
Florida Power Corporation
Florida Power
Public Service Commission
Mount Dora High School
Willie J. Poole
Council
City Recreation Department
East Town
Beth O’connor
Poole
Annexation Referendum Polls Open in Mount Dora Area
Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. next Tuesday June 14 for special referendums in Mount Bone area. Registered voters will decide on annexation into Lake Franklin Park, and Mount Dora voters will choose on a city ballot. Voting machines at Mount Dora Community Building rear entrance Sixth Avenue. Annexation voters in Southernaire Mobile Park recreation room State Road 46 US 441.
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Mount Bone
Ha Vision
Lake Franklin Park
Mount Dora
Sixth Avenue
Southernaire
Mobile Park
US 441
Mount Dora Tailor Revives Dying Craft In Florida
Mount Dora businesswoman Mamie Odom, a longtime tailor with 20 years in town, collaborates with the Florida Department of Education to revive tailoring as a learnable trade. She filled a seven page plan on shop setup and costs and envisions a junior college course. Her Mount Dora workshop at 415 N Donnelly St services central Florida, including crafting pillows for local inventor Theodore Mittendorf.
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A. M. Liveright
Florida Department of Education
Tallahassee
Mount Dora
Mamie Odom
Mamie
Theodore H. Mittendorf
Florida
Donnelly Street
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