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YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
Windermere High School community mourns loss of Sammy Lahik. PAGE 7A.
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VOLUME 92, NO. 10
Wolverines making a run! Windermere High School is just two games away from a state championship. SEE PAGE 1B.
Built Bishop Tough YOUR TOWN TIME TO SPRING FORWARD! It’s time to turn your clock ahead one hour this weekend. You will have one more hour of sunlight in the evening starting Sunday, March 9, when daylight saving time begins. Don’t forget to move your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed Saturday night — or at 2 a.m. Sunday — whichever comes first.
CHEERS TO ENGAGED COUPLE Jessica Lyle has devoted six years to cheerleading, and her dedication to the sport has led her to a marriage proposal from another cheerleader. Lyle and Bryce Marshall have planned a spring wedding April 11 at New Smyrna Beach. She cheered for the Warriors at West Orange High School for four years and for the University of Central Florida Knights for another two. Marshall cheered for one year at his high school in Jacksonville before becoming a UCF cheerleader, as well. The pair actually met when Lyle was a freshman at West Orange and Marshall was a freshman on the UCF cheer team. He was attending a state competition recruiting future cheer prospects for UCF. “I had a conversation with (him) about furthering my cheer career at UCF, but I was in between (the University of South Florida) and UCF at the time,” Lyle said. “After that first interaction we had no contact until my junior year of college when, sadly, one of my teammates, Nix Thomas, that was also one of his very, very close friends, was involved in a tragic motorcycle accident.” Marshall was in the United States Air Force and stationed in New Mexico at the time but returned to Orlando for his friend’s celebration of life. Lyle, Marshall and two other friends stayed connected through FaceTime calls. The couple now is living in Oklahoma while Marshall continues his pilot training.
Amy Quesinberry Price
Mac Bishop and his father, Jesse Bishop, have spent the last nine months rebuilding a 1979 Ford Bronco.
The father-son team of Mac and Jesse Bishop has spent nine solid months rebuilding a 1979 Ford Bronco, and it is nearly road-ready. SEE STORY ON PAGE 4A.
More affordable housing headed to east W.G.? Ordinances to establish new residential designations in east Winter Garden cleared their first hurdle at the Winter Garden City Commission. SEE PAGE 2A.
BRAINFOOD WHAT IS A LUCKY CHARM? Learn the origins of five lucky items. PAGE 6B.