Permit issued for Mount Dora Plaza shopping center
Mount Dora city issued a building permit for a $1.9 million Mount Dora Plaza on 10 acres opposite Golden Triangle Shopping Center. The 62,000 square foot main block includes free standing buildings with leases signed by Publix Super Markets Eckerd Drugs and Eagle Family Discount Stores. Groundbreaking is set to begin soon with Morrison's Cafeterias among potential tenants. Hunt Brothers Construction Company is the general contractor with no contracts yet awarded.
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Mount Dora
Golden Triangle Shopping Center
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Mount Dora Plaza
Leonard Rabin
Lakeland
Southeast Partners
Florida
Flaquad Inc
Florida Corporation
Flaquad
Clearwater
Publix Super Markets
Eckerd Drugs
Eagle Family Discount
Rabin
Rabin-Blanton Real Estate
Hallmark Card
Bagshoping
Center
Morrison’s
Hunt Brothers Construction Company
Spring Hill
Publix
Altamonte Mall
Fran Traywick Profile: Mount Dora Dispatcher Milestone
Fran Traywick, a Mount Dora native, will mark three years as a Mount Dora Police Department dispatcher this November. She completed a 320 hour basic law enforcement course and a 20 hour child abuse class and has a son, Andrew, who serves as a lieutenant in the U S Air Force. Her hobby is reading.
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Fran Traywick
Mount Dora
Fran
Andrew
United States Air Force
Mount Dora council rejects emergency sanitation rate hike
Mount Dora City Council failed to pass an emergency ordinance raising residential sanitation rates by 25 percent and commercial rates by 50 percent. A two thirds majority was required for emergency passage, and four to two votes approved first reading, with readings planned at two more sessions and no increase for the new budget year starting Oct 1.
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Mount Dora
Roy Christopher
Howard Cox
Adrianne Lowe
Clifford Harden
Day in the Park Promises Music and Barbecue in Mount Dora
Mount Dora hosts Day in the Park at Gilbert Park this Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. The Orlando Naval Training Center Band and Chorus perform 1:30 to 3 p.m. Co sponsors include Mount Dora Order of the Rainbow No. 79 and American Legion Post No. 35. Dinner costs 3 dollars, featuring barbecued chicken and sides. Raffle prizes from Independence Jubilee merchants to be distributed. tickets required.
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Gilbert Park
Jones
Ward
Jim Wright
Bluejacket Chorus
Orlando Naval Training Center
Mount Dora
Park
Park Pavilion
Order of the Rainbow No. 79
American Legion Post and Auxiliary Unit No. 35
Carmody Appointed to Mount Dora Park Commission
Elouise Carmody was appointed to the Mount Dora Park Commission by Mayor Jeff Ray III and will serve the unexpired term of the late Milton. At a special park board meeting Monday Mae Radcliff was unanimously elected vice chairman after a nomination by Margaret Carson. Harry Quinn became park board chairman following Mr Goodholm’s death, creating the vice chair vacancy.
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Elouise Carmody
Mount Dora Park Commission
Jeff Ray III
Carmody
Park Board
Milton
Margaret Carson
Mae Radcliff
Harry Quinn
Goodholm
Oliver Gramling a lifelong writer and AP veteran
Oliver Gramling, once AP executive and writer of AP The Story of News, recalls starting at age nine with a typewriter and a life in journalism. He worked at the Florida Senate as a doorkeeper, wrote for the Tallahassee Daily Democrat, joined the New York Times by covering sermons, and returned to AP in 1928. He later led AP radio efforts and authored two best sellers, retiring to Mount Dora where he enjoys landscaping on Lake Dora with wife Vera.
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Oliver Gramling
Associated Press
Florida
Gramling
Gram
Tallahassee
Poyee
The
Tallana
Atlanta
Oglethorpe
Africa
Columbia University
New York Times
Columbia
News
Pittsburgh
News Dimes
Execuve
Kent
William J. McCambridge
Press Association Inc
AP I
API
St. Petersburg
Bahamas
Ft. Lauderdale
Sumter County
Mount Dora
Jeanne Mahaffey
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Highland Street
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McWhorter
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