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Monday’s City Commission meeting was shortened by several delays on agenda items, most notably the controversial Ohio Avenue development for the third time in just as many meetings.

The reason given at the 4 p.m. workshop was that the developer’s father had been hospitalized recently.

Seminole County could be exploring a way to branch away from the Central Florida Continuum of Care (COC), which aims to help the homeless in an organized way.

If they do, they’d be looking to form their own chapter away from the Central Florida one, which encompasses Orange County and Osceola County, as well as the cities of Orlando, Sanford and Kissimmee.

Twenty federally threatened eastern indigo snakes have just been released in northern Florida at The Nature Conservancy’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve (ABRP)as part of a collaborative endeavor to return the native, nonvenomous apex predator to the region.

Heading into the 2018-19 school year this week, Seminole County officials are showing off new technology they say will make things easier and more efficient in all areas of dealing with school life.

Local businesses are rushing to help the Seminole County Fire Station 42, located on State Road 46 in Geneva, after a mold outbreak forced them out of their building.

Instead, they’ve been working outside from trailers and in the garage area of the building since mid-July. They’ve had no air conditioning and no way to cook meals.

An unexpected donation of $30,000 to the Seminole County Animal Services division has resulted in a new mobile animal adoption center that will be making rounds county-wide very soon.

The trailer is officially titled the Adoption Option Trailer, and it will be at CORT Furniture in Winter Park this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a host of dogs and cats for adoption.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will be providing up to $500,000 in BearWise funding to local governments to help reduce human-bear conflicts. The funding helps offset some of the costs for residents and businesses to acquire bear-resistant trash cans and dumpsters.

A mosquito bite changed the life of Taylor County resident Debbie Casey in May of this year, transmitting a disease called Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) to her and rendering her comatose.

For over a decade and a half now, drivers on I-4 heading west of Sanford have been intrigued by the tall mirror-plated building that’s been continually unfinished since the turn of the millennium.

Some less-favorable views have dubbed it the ‘Eyesore on I-4.’

Last week, the Victim Service Center of Central Florida added their new Longwood location as a designated rape crisis center for all of Seminole County, making it easier for victims of assault in the area to get help.