THIS INTERVIEW HAS BEEN EDITED POST-PUBLISHING, BECAUSE PROFESSORS.
Dr. Jana Mathews, associate professor of English and Medieval Literature at Rollins College, has been teaching a course based on George R. R. Martin's Song...
Students and staff of the new Valencia College and UCF campuses at Creative Village will be able to ride SunRail for free in August and September, thanks to a new partnership with the rail system.
Rollins College has appointed Robert Sanders as the new dean of their evening program, the Hamilton Holt School.
Sanders comes to the school with a doctorate in education from University of Cincinnati, a...
PROMO: Boone High School’s Theatre Department will perform their next Musical, Catch Me If You Can, at Edgewater High School from February 14-16.
As you may recall from our post last September, HERE, Boone High School is currently building a performing arts...
The Florida Department of Transportation will host over 3,000 students this weekend at their Construction Career Days event at Central Florida Fairgrounds.
Junior and senior high school students from over 70 local schools will learn about jobs for engineers and...
According to a release out of Creative Village yesterday, funding has come through for their first market-rate apartment building.
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey has arranged a $66 million loan for The Allen Morris Company and Ustler Development, Inc, the team behind...
PROMO: Boone High School students will be headed off-campus this year as they await the construction of a brand new auditorium.
The award-winning theatre program lost their auditorium, which was built in 1952, this year and has been forced to...
"SGA has indicated they do not wish to fund the service any longer due to low ridership. The money saved from the elimination of the 212 will most likely be invested into other transportation services for the UCF student...
Following an unexpected Irma-sucker punch, the radio tower for WPRK was rendered useless, knocking the college-run radio station off the air and onto a streaming service while they sorted through the rubble.
The rehab efforts hit an eagle-shaped roadblock in...
The City of Orlando is hosting a workshop to discuss a study that is currently underway to analyze the current transportation network in both the Milk and Mills 50 Districts and make them safer for pedestrians, residents, and drivers.
The...
In a follow-up to a story we did last November, plans have finally been released for the upcoming renovations of the vacant Grand Avenue School, located at 800 Grand Street .
The City of Orlando will be moving multiple programs...
Contrary to what WPRK's director told us months ago, the Rollins College radio station is still not back on the air. But it's not his fault, it's Mother Nature keeping them down; The popular student-run station lost their antenna last...
OUC and Orlando City executives have announced that they have selected a design for a solar-powered art sculpture that will be installed the entrance to the Orlando City Soccer Stadium on the corner of West Church Street and Glenn...
Sixth grade students at the Monarch Learning Academy (Website) in College Park are leading a storytelling project based on the infamous "Jump Tree" that came down during Hurricane Irma.
The tree had fixed Tarzan-ropes for swinging and was located in...
The Orange County School Board applied for a Conditional Use Permit that would allow for a new development to the north of Edgewater High School that would host a new Agricultural Education Center.
When completed, the Educational Center would house...
Edit: We originally published that the name of the childcare center partner was "Trinity Christian Church" but the correct name is "Trinity Christian Academy."
The recently closed Reeves United Methodist Church in Colonialtown North has filed for a Conditional Use...
The student-run newspaper The Sandspur announced on April 5 at Rollins College that the historic Fred Stone Theatre had been closed and would soon be torn down.
It hosted the college program's Second Stage Series that were completely directed, designed, marketed, and performed...
EDIT: Greg Golden, Director of Student Media, Rollins College, sent us the following update concerning a timeline for getting back on air. It could take a week, or many weeks and is contingent on a response from the FCC.
"We...
UPDATE: According to Rollins College the suspect was never armed while on campus.
A late afternoon car chase in Casselberry ended with a suspect being apprehended in Winter Park around 4 p.m. Monday afternoon.
An unnamed suspect allegedly fled from Casselberry...
Following the Pulse tragedy, the Central Florida Foundation (Website) launched The 49 Fund (Website), an annual scholarship award for local LGBT students, as a partnership between the LGBT Center and local attorney Barry L. Miller.
This year the Fund will...
Alison Kirby, principal at Jones High School, wrote a letter to Ellen DeGeneres asking for support for her school's band and choir in order to perform at Carnegie Hall.
Ellen "The Generous" DeGeneres then invited the band's teachers onto the Ellen show...
EDIT: Originally posted it began in February but this course is available yearlong.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is offering their free online course, "The Architecture of Imagination" again, following a popular first session last year.
The course covers "the...
A questionnaire is circulating via the Jackson Middle School website asking parents for feedback concerning a possible name change.
According to the post, located on the Principal's Message board, the name change conversation was spurred by a request from a...
Keep Winter Park Beautiful and the City of Winter Park's Sustainability Program are looking for schools to apply to their Green School Grants program by Friday, February 23.
Green School Grants support sustainability efforts by schools in Winter Park as...
All UCF students, faculty, and staff are now able to ride all LYNX routes at no cost if they show a valid UCF-issue ID card.
This deal also includes KnightLYNX routes that serve the main campus between 6 p.m. and...
