A worker was trapped in the ceiling of Lake Nona High School on Narcoossee Road (see map) in Orlando Monday and for two hours; no one knew he was there.
The worker was using a scissor lift to get to the top of the school’s auditorium and when the lift broke down in the upright position, [...]
Source: WDBO News
By Lauren Park
It’s been a little over three weeks since Osceola County schools let out for the summer, and two St. Cloud juveniles have already found themselves in trouble with the law.
18-year-old Demetrius Rios, of 1406 Maryland Avenue, and 16-year-old Marcus Rex Haney, of 600 California Avenue, were arrested June 28 and charged [...]
Thursday morning, construction crews began the very first stages of building the new, state-of-the-art, 95-bed Nemours Children’s hospital in Lake Nona’s Medical City. Workers began by laying the groundwork, including underground piping and utilities.
In addition to healthcare, this project will create jobs and a lot of them. During the construction phase alone, there will be [...]
Jeannette Rivera-Lyles | Sentinel Staff Writer
June 22, 2009
Source: Orlando Sentinel
Osceola County will spend more than $200 million to improve roads starting this summer in the hope of stimulating the county’s economy.
The road projects, which County Manager Michael Freilinger is calling a “local stimulus package,” include:
Widening Narcoossee and Boggy Creek roads, which connect Osceola with [...]
In 2006, the future was very bright for new construction projects in east Orlando. Innovation Way and Lake Nona’s Medical Center were on the top of the list. Fast-forward three years, and everything seems to have slowed to a snails-pace.
Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty made his annual pilgrimage to the East Orlando Chamber luncheon [...]
From Orlando Sentinel
Residents near east Boggy Creek Road came to a County Commission meeting ready to protest a development of 20 or so houses in their rural north Osceola neighborhood.
Instead, they quickly found themselves facing a much bigger proposal — thanks in part to a growing medical city to the north in Orange County.
The representative [...]
On June 12th, 13th, and 14th, a community event will be held for you to share your vision for the Narcoossee area. At anytime over those three days, you are invited to drop in to meet your planning team, share your thoughts, help identify opportunities and issues living in a high-growth area and explore different [...]
ST. CLOUD — A 12-year-old girl is dead in Osceola County after a crash involving a 14-year-old behind the wheel.
State troopers told News 13 a car driven by Allison Sullivan, 14, was headed north of Absher Road around 10:45 p.m. Saturday, when for some unknown reason, she spun the car into a culvert.
The car went [...]
Free Paintball In A Pinched Economy!
Ken “SKUBA” Heinly, a local Narcoossee, FL man with a passion for paintball, or more specifically, “woodsball”, has created a free place on his personal property to play this extreme sport. Owning several acres of forest he runs games about every two weeks.
This backwoods area is called “The Swamp”. It’s [...]
Built with sustainable wood and plenty of glass to promote energy-efficient lighting, the first facility completed at Lake Nona’s new “medical city” will be one of the state’s greenest.
The Burnham Institute for Medical Research is opening the doors to its 175,000-square-foot complex Friday, giving form — and function — to the $80 million campus. Mayors [...]
