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As the Sanford Orlando International Airport expands, they’re also looking for new businesses to fill up the surrounding land.

And by partnering with Orlando-based NAI Realvest, they hope to capitalize on the land they have with a host of forthcoming retail and other mixed-use facilities to create a hub of activity around the airport.

Meals on Wheels, Etc. is celebrating 45 years of delivering nutritious meals and support services to homebound seniors in Seminole County in September. “We’re very proud of the impact our agency has made in the lives of local seniors over the past 45 years,” said Sherry Fincher, Executive Director of Meals on Wheels, Etc.

The body of a young autistic boy who went missing on Saturday night was found in Sawyer Lake the next day, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.

Six-year-old Humza Mohammad Syed was last seen around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4 at the family’s home on Ridgemount Place in Lake Mary.

As the Sanford Orlando International Airport grows, so does the struggle to maintain a balance between the quaintness passengers enjoy and over-development, which they want to avoid.

Amendment 13 on this year’s statewide ballot, which would have banned gambling on greyhound or other dog races, could be stricken from the ballot as of Aug. 1, for the reason that it supposedly contained “trickeration.”

Seminole State College is welcoming a new president this year in Dr. Georgia Lorenz, only the third person to hold the title in the school’s 53-year run so far.

Next week marks “National Stop on Red Week”, and from Aug. 5 to 11, members of Florida’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Coalition will be reminding everyone to STOP on RED including when making a right turn.

The historic Mayfair Inn will be reopened by the summer of 2020, its new owners at Key Performance Hospitality Management hope.

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As the school year begins Aug. 10, so will two brand new schools in the county, the Seminole High School 9th Grade Center and the new Millennium Middle School.

The 9th Grade Center sits where the old Millennium Middle School used to, behind Seminole High.