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Downtown Sanford could soon see a specialty-themed retail and restaurant venue in which you can eat and drink inside a remodeled old train car, if developer Mitch Menaker has his way.

It’s part of his latest venture, All Aboard Dining Cars, planned to come to a lot near 2nd Street and Palmetto Avenue.

He didn’t mean it

Deputies responded to a home in Sanford last Sunday after they said a man had hit his wife.

Two federal lawsuits filed against the Seminole County Tax Collector and Clerk of Courts allege discrimination against employees who claimed to have been fired unjustly, court documents state.

Police arrested Justin Lamarr Buckner, 23, on charges of premeditated murder Monday, in the ongoing case of the murder of Derek Williams last month.

Williams, 28, died in a shootout outside Mama Coot’s on Historic Goldsboro Boulevard on Sept. 8.

October is Car Care Month, an ideal time to remind motorists that seasonal changes can have an overwhelming effect on a battery’s performance. Batteries typically last three to five years and failures are common in winter and extreme heat conditions. According to AAA-The Auto Club Group, more than 20 percent of service calls in the last year were battery related.

Where there was once FleaWorld, there will one day be a sprawling metropolis called Parkside Place.

Taking the spot of the former “nation’s largest flea market” near 17/92 and Ronald Reagan Boulevard, Parkside Place will feature 4,076 multi-family units, 752 student housing units for Seminole Stage College students, an Assisted Living Facility, a hotel, retail space and office space.

At a mayoral candidate debate held Tuesday night, Jeff Triplett and Pasha Baker presented contrasting views of Sanford, with Triplett vowing to continue the successes they’d had if he wins re-election and Baker protesting the lack of improvements to every area of the city outside of downtown.

In the ongoing saga of the City of Sanford’s newly open Historic Preservation Officer position, Community Improvement Director Darrel Presley told the Historic Preservation Board they’re looking to fill the position soon.

At the Board’s Tuesday night meeting, Presley spoke about the controversial decision recently to let Historic Preservation Officer Christine Dalton go in September.

Seminole County Commission Candidate Paul Cooper, running as a No-Party Affiliated candidate in this year’s race for the District 2 seat, was banned from being a substitute teacher earlier this year.

The reasons, as stated in a letter from Seminole County Public Schools’ Human Resources department, include multiple incidents of improper conduct while teaching.

An arrest has been made in the kidnapping of an infant girl, Sanford Police said Wednesday.

Tedrick Mazion, 31, was arrested Wednesday for the alleged kidnapping which occurred last weekend.