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We think: Established Wekiva Parkway route serves wildlife, region well
Residents of some communities near what that will become the Wekiva Parkway say they have a better route to complete a beltway around Orlando. If officials were to back that alternative route, however, the parkway would never get built. For starters,...Tags: Interstate 4, Tourism and Leisure, Florida, Gardens and Parks, Nature
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Does $11.5M Econlockhatchee deal cross the line?
Sentinel Staff WriterThe Econlockhatchee River is an imperiled environmental treasure and a designated barrier east of Orlando that developers aren't supposed to cross. Nowhere are those facts more in focus than at Rybolt Ranch near the University of Central Florida. On...Tags: Orange County (Florida), Water Restrictions, Bithlo, Heavy Engineering, Family
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Wekiva Parkway worries plague homeowners
Sentinel Staff WriterMark Fields says he's spent about a third of his life fretting whether a planned toll road known as the Wekiva Parkway will barrel through the brick home he built with his own hands in rural Lake County. "We are sick. We feel like we are living in a...Tags: Orange County (Florida), Tourism and Leisure, Florida, Jeb Bush, Gardens and Parks
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We think: Thompson, Randolph and Adams are the best picks in three key Central Florida districts
It's business as usual in the races for state House districts 38, 36 and 33, with the candidates debating crime, education and commuter rail. In one of those races, voters would do well to shake things up, while two of the incumbents deserve a return to...Tags: State Budgets, Laws, Voting, Florida, Charlie Crist
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Land deal helps to pave way for Wekiva Parkway
Sentinel Staff WritersGov. Charlie Crist and the Cabinet agreed Tuesday to buy land critical to construction of a beltway around Orlando, two weeks after rejecting a higher-priced proposal. Instead of the original $37.5 million price tag, the deal now calls for state agencies...Tags: Orange County (Florida), Orlando, Tourism and Leisure, Florida, Government
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Land buy for parkway is approved
Sentinel Staff WriterMetro Orlando's toll-road agency agreed Wednesday to buy land crucial to construction of the Wekiva Parkway, even though one board member said he was "embarrassed" by the deal. "I find some of this to be outrageous," said Harvey Massey, a Winter Park...Tags: State Road 408, Tourism and Leisure, Jim Palmer, Charlie Crist, Winter Park
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Crist halts plan for Orlando beltway, saying cost is too high
Sentinel Staff WritersGov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday nixed a deal to buy land crucial to construction of a beltway around Orlando, arguing the price is high. Now, road builders must figure out how to salvage the $2 billion plan. They have no easy...Tags: Orange County (Florida), Orlando, Bill McCollum, Interstate 4, Tourism and Leisure
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Theater season preview
Sentinel Staff WriterAmway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....Tags: Religious Leaders, Oklahoma, Robin Hood, Melbourne, Animal Science
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Take your pick: Eagles soaring or bulldozers roaring
Imagine the foresight of Gov. Bob Martinez 20 years ago when he decided that the Wekiva River should be protected forever. And why not? This oasis teeming with rare birds and dark swamps sits in the middle of metro Orlando. A place to swim in the...Tags: Regional Authority, Kevin Beary, Orange County Sheriff's Office, Interstate 4, Tourism and Leisure
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Apopka supports Pine Plantation purchase
Jane Healy's Sunday piece in the Sentinel leaves readers with the impression that "development-hungry" Apopka cannot wait to despoil a key part of the Wekiva River basin in order to throw up 1,500 tract houses. Nothing could be further from the truth....Tags: Orange County (Florida), Apopka, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority
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For Wekiva Parkway, it's design time
Sentinel Staff WriterAfter more than three decades of dreaming about it, Central Florida's road builders can start designing the final leg of a beltway around Metro Orlando. The final piece of the complex puzzle fell into place Wednesday, when the Orlando-Orange County...Tags: Interstate 4, Tourism and Leisure, Florida, Government, Executive Branch
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Another Orlando beltway isn't needed
Studies have been done, public notices given and laws passed, but the Wekiva beltway extension into Lake County, the so-called missing link in the Orlando beltway, is the wrong road at the wrong time and certainly in the wrong place. Let's take one...Tags: Apopka, Natural Resource Industry, Interstate 4, Tourism and Leisure, Family
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