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23 hours ago · Oviedo’s Broadway Street, also known as S.R. 426, may finally be nearing completion on a long widening project that transformed the city’s old downtown. After more than a decade of planning and construction, the Broadway Street widening project in Oviedo’s old downtown now in the final stages ...

Jan 22, 2025 · An Oviedo Hotel? With the death of the Oviedo Lodge after decades in business, the city, or Winter Springs, looks to fill a big hole in the area. It sits dark and drab, lifeless amid a historic, bustling-yet-redeveloping part of Oviedo that is a centerpiece of the city’s future. Hundreds of cars ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Oviedo’s stormwater rate increase put on hold — but not for long Update By Eric Orvieto Oviedo City Council was expected to vote to adopt a stormwater rate increase for city utility customers at its Jan. 21 meeting, which, if passed, would have seen rates increase beginning Feb. 1. With only three council members in attendance — Mayor Megan Sladek, Alan Ott and Natalie Teuchert — they ...

Isaac Babcock is a longtime local journalist and former managing editor of the Seminole Voice. His work has been featured in Golfweek magazine, the New York Times and Jalopnik. He has won more than a dozen Florida Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists awards and contributed to award-winning, in-depth work for the NPR member station 90.7 WMFE. He earned a bachelor’s degree ...

Jan 23, 2025 · A future vision of the future began to emerge, and the city’s new city manager took a more public role, as rancor gave way to cooperation.

Sep 1, 2023 · Publishing obituaries is a critical public service that, in many communities, has died with the shuttering of the local newspapers. It’s important to highlight the stories of the people who lived, worked, raised families, started businesses and volunteered in our community because they helped to make the community what it is today. That is why […]

Jan 8, 2025 · Learn about the regional news collaborative that OCN has joined to provide readers with the most in-depth picture of the impacts of the state’s camping ban.

Jan 22, 2025 · A development proposal for the old Downtown Oviedo would include residential and retail to follow a realigned Geneva Drive. Rendering courtesy of Dave Axel. ”I think it is wise to get the shock value or shock factor [out of the way], let people work through it now and wrap their brains around it,” Sladek said. “What is proposed does comply with the [Comprehensive Plan], and we are ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The voting results for the public safety building bonds. The 2023 results are on top, the 2024 results are on bottom (Images from voteseminole.gov) “I’m not thrilled,” Oviedo Police Chief Dale Coleman said. “It didn’t go our way. We’re disappointed it did not pass, and now the question is: how do we go from here to get the voters to understand and approve a …