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YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. VOLUME 8, NO. 3
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Local family carves out a Halloween tradition. 3A.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
A tale that never grows old Foundation Academy thespians will stage ‘Peter Pan’ Nov. 4 and 5. PAGE 5B.
West Orange Dream Center to host first fundraiser The Winter Garden nonprofit provides outreach programs. PAGE 6A.
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Town to host new concert Windermere’s Music Among the Lakes takes place Nov. 5. SEE PAGE 2A.
Nehrling hears a HOOT!
YOUR TOWN FAMILY CELEBRATES GRANDSON’S EXCELLENCE
Nehrling Gardens in Gotha hosted its 2022 Owl Prowl last weekend. PAGE 7A.
Amy Quesinberry
Above: Kelly and Danny Wells and their daughter, Millie, are figuring out how to live their lives without Tyler. Top: Tyler Wells loved the movie “Toy Story” and liked to dress up as the character Woody.
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Tyler Wells, 14, was nonverbal but had a way of connecting with people, and his happiness made others happy. The Windermere teen died unexpectedly Aug. 24. SEE STORY ON PAGE 4A.
Sam Stage, grandson of Sue Hurley and the late Warren Hurley of Windermere and son of Sally Hurley (1978 graduate of West Orange High School) and Scott Stage, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was offered full scholarships to both Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory in Boston and is beginning his studies in violin performance at Berklee. Stage graduated summa cum laude from Enloe Magnet High School, where he was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, section leader in the big band and member of the jazz combo. Stage also is the greatgrandson of Lawton and Mamie Shaw, who established Shaw’s Florist in Winter Garden in the early 1950s, and A.W and Clara Tilden Hurley, of Hurley Groves, as well as the greatgreat-grandson of Luther Fuller and Emily Tilden, all pioneers and community builders of the West Orange/Tildenville/Winter Garden area in the 1800s. His paternal grandparents, the late Fred and Ellie Stage of Centennial, Colorado, would be proud of his accomplishments.