Eatonville News

Two decades ago, Eatonville used its link to Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston to get noticed by the world.

Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston's home town, is evoked at the restaurant of the same name in D.C. Above, N.Y. Nathiri of the town's preservation society.

In spite of the economic downturn, audiences spent nearly twice as much on the arts in Orange County in 2009 than they did in 2008, recent research shows, and attendance at arts events was up by 50 percent.

Eatonville Police are investigating a shooting at 326 Fords Avenue. Police said the gunfire erupted Tuesday just after 8 a.m. Reports say a man was shot twice in the chest and was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Singers and lovers of the Harlem Renaissance , your time has come. The Zora! Festival is putting together something called the " Thousand Voices Choir ." Seems pretty cut and dry, so I'll let them give you the details: Who: ZORA! Festival and the Thousand Voices Choir What: ZORA! Festival organizers to host introductory meeting for community ...

T oday we've got hugs for some professional sports stars and Orlando's biggest employer - and slugs for art-bashing politicians and a particularly vacuous morning-show host.

Orlando Ballet was shut out of funding by Orange County's cultural-tourism program for the coming year because of a shortage of county grant money.

What constitutes a classic Florida book? An author's passion for sabal palms, hurricane warnings, mildew, mojitos and the ability to pluck nuggets of truth from our rich and sometimes ugly history? A wicked sense of humor about the subtropical oddities - flying cucarachas, copulating iguanas, six-toed cats, swamp-eating developers - skittering ...

The Winter Park Health Foundation has awarded $105,000 in grants to five community programs designed to enhance the brain health of older adults.

Two teenage girls were shot tonight near Forest City Road, west of Eatonville . The girls were hanging out on Sherry Drive about 9:10 p.m. when a man drove up, opened the door of his van or sport utility vehicle and fired, said Orange County sheriff's Lt.

If OCPS sells the school to someone else, what could happen? No one knows. The school district has no plans for it, both superintendent Ronald Blocker and attorney Frank Kruppenbacher said.

Need a free rabies vaccine for your pet? Does your dog continue to get loose no matter what you do? Do you have a pet that has unwanted puppies or kittens? Orange County Animal Services is holding its monthly Pet Amnesty Day this Saturday at Hungerford Elementary School in Eatonville.

A Lakeside Alternatives mental health patient is recovering form his wounds after being shocked on a power pole on Monday.

Need a free rabies vaccine for your pet? Does your dog continue to get loose no matter what you do? Do you have a pet that has unwanted puppies or kittens? Orange County Animal Services is holding its monthly Pet Amnesty Day this Saturday at Hungerford Elementary School in Eatonville.

Orange County 's School Board is pushing ahead with a plan to turn over a historic African-American school to Eatonville officials, but a trust that controls land where the school sits could halt the plan in its tracks.

Rescuers saved a man who climbed up a power pole near Kennedy Boulevard in Eatonville and was shocked.

After years of struggling to prove itself, Florida A&M University's law school in downtown Orlando won full accreditation by the American Bar Association on Friday.

Orange County 's School Board is pushing ahead with a plan to turn over a historic African-American school to Eatonville officials, but a trust that controls land where the school sits could halt the plan in its tracks.

A man accused of killing a known prostitute in his home had his fifth-grade son help him dispose of the woman's body in an Eatonville field, according to sheriff's deputies.

The man accused of murdering a prostitute last month and then dumping her body near Eatonville asked his fifth-grade son to help him get rid of the body, according to an arrest affidavit.