Author: Dan Ping
The Morning Read, because sometimes you’ve got to go outside The Bokey: Newsweek returns to the printed format […]
There’s nothing like the old “one-step-forward-two-step-back shuffle” that occurs from time to time at City Hall. Trust me, […]
What a difference a couple of weeks makes.
Business owners along Sanford Avenue were upset when they learned the city of Sanford planned to close their street on March 3 for as long as four months to complete a $2.5 million streetscape project. (“City’s bumbling threatens local businesses”)
Tempers flared at times during a Feb. 25 meeting, the first in series of regularly scheduled meetings between city officials and business owners to discuss the project.
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It’s back to the future for downtown Sanford’s newest business.
Rabbitfoot Records Coffee Lounge plans to open Friday, March 7, and sell records – the vinyl kind that require a turntable.
“”We’re not selling CDs. This will be an old-fashioned type record store,” says Rob Wallace, co-owner of Rabbitfoot Records.
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The secret of Shantell’s Cafe and Oyster Bar is quickly spreading beyond The Bokey. Writer Rona Gindin featured […]
By Dan Ping Sanford’s favorite biker hang out is back in business. The Bar Out Back reopened Sunday […]
By Dan Ping A new business is opening on Palmetto Avenue in downtown that plans to pay homage […]
By Dan Ping
Seminole County Public School Board members received a briefing Friday morning about potential capital projects the system would undertake if a penny is added to the county’s sales tax.
The list, which has yet to be approved by the board, lays out $157 million in school renovations, including brand new school facilities at Casselberry Elementary and Sanford’s Pine Crest Elementary.
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Mike Padgett runs a shady business. But it’s cool, his customers expect it.
Padgett is the owner of Florida Shade Co., a Sanford-based firm that designs and builds outdoor shade structures for commercial and residential uses.
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Under the category of “unpaid advertisement,” check out the Celery Ball Saturday, March 8. It’s a great event, […]
By Dan Ping For those of us who live in Sanford, the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman saga was a […]
By Dan Ping
Paulii Buster has invested tens of thousands of dollars to turn a vacate space on Sanford Avenue into a sleek, modern Belgium beer pub that regularly draws customers from outside of Sanford — including players from the Orlando City Soccer Club.
When the city of Sanford’s Downtown Waterfront Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) announced it would spend $2.5 million to reconstruct Sanford Avenue to upgrade utilities, widen sidewalks, and enhance lighting and landscaping, Buster knew his business, Buster’s Bistro, would suffer and he made plans to mitigate the construction.
He never thought the work would virtually shut off access to his pub.
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By Dan Ping
Food and ice cream vendors may be barred from the north side of Fort Mellon Park in a proposal under consideration by the Sanford City Commission.
In a memo outlining options to increase pedestrian safety around Fort Mellon Park, city staffer Marc Hultin recommends Sanford prohibit mobile food vendors from locating along Seminole Boulevard between Sanford and San Juan avenues.
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Sixty-three years ago, Volkswagen began production of a new vehicle. Officially known as the Volkswagen Type 2, or the Transporter, this new vehicle quickly picked up a number of nicknames, including the VW microbus and VW minibus.
In the U.S., the Transporter became known as the hippie van because of its popularity in the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Despite the peace-and-love karma surrounding the VW microbus, the unofficial vehicle of Woodstock stands at the center of the Chicken War that continues to this day.
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The 8-track tape is the Rodney Dangerfield of music formats: It gets no respect.
Like CB radios, leisure suits and mood rings, the 8-track elicits a chuckle and a head shake as if to say, “Can you dig how wacky the 70s were?”
