The day after finishing their final exams, 24 students from the UCF College of Medicine’s charter class ran a 24.7-mile “Nonathon” relay race Thursday to celebrate the college’s upcoming move to Lake Nona and raise money for student scholarships. The students began the relay at 6 a.m. at the UCF Reflecting Pond at the Orlando [...]
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Melinda Colon woke up at around 2 o’clock Friday morning to the sound of an explosion in her Lake Nona home. She says someone purposely went inside and set it on fire while they were sleeping. “There was nothing but flames, could see them from the bottom of the stairs so I ran to my [...]
This is a guest post by Carey Light, a local Realtor® working with both home buyers and sellers throughout the Central Florida Market. Her expertise is the Southeast Quadrant of Orange County and the Narcoossee Road Corridor, also known as the Lake Nona area, and stretching into Osceola County and St. Cloud. A nice listing [...]
These days it seems everyone is trying to get rid of fat, especially with swimsuit season approaching. But did you know that our bodies actually contain a good kind of fat that can help you lose weight? Biochemist Sheila Collins, the latest addition to the faculty at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona, [...]
A new Aldi store is in the works in the Vista Lakes area in southeast Orlando. The German discount grocery retailer plans to open the 16,657-square-foot store, its 11th in the Orlando area, by August of this year, the company said. Ohio-based general contractor Deerfield Construction Co. Inc. is handling construction work on the store, [...]
Justin Rose and Ross Fisher each collected two points Tuesday to lead Lake Nona to its third win at the Tavistock Cup. Lake Nona defeated Isleworth, 17-13, for the club’s second straight win in the event. The victory for Nona was its first at Isleworth and ties the series at 3-3-1. Tuesday’s format saw two [...]
The professional golf spotlight will be shining upon Orlando, Florida, throughout the next seven days. Two annual events run back-to-back in Orlando, featuring some of the biggest names in men’s professional golf. First up is the Tavistock Cup, a two-day battle of posh Orlando neighborhoods – Lake Nona versus Isleworth. Pro stars representing the two [...]
When it comes to unemployment, Central Florida is setting records. In the metro Orlando area, unemployment reached 12.4 percent in February, which is the highest rate since 1975. Experts said they believe there are jobs available, and those who are unemployed should keep looking. “There are construction projects going on, big ones,” Workforce Central Florida [...]
The sky is dotted with construction cranes that mark the location of the “medical city” at Lake Nona where $2billion of development is under way. This impressive site includes Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, the University of Central Florida medical school and Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando’s Cancer Research Institute, Nemours [...]
Tiger Woods is facing pressure from rival golfers to make a full public confession about his extra-marital affairs before he attempts to revive his golfing career. Woods has been trying to lie low since the November car crash which laid bare details of more than a dozen secret girlfriends during his marriage to wife Elin. [...]
