Por: Orlando Sentinel Opinion March 23, 2023
Hooray for the Eatonville Town Council. By responding to their constituents instead of the pressures of developers and other powerful interests, they have hopefully stopped the impending gentrification of Eatonville by voting down a proposed new downtown commercial zone. Sadly, I feel the pressures are only on hold for a brief time and actions need to be taken by community leaders to plan more appropriate development for land that has... + full article
Orlando Sentinel USA Crime March 31, 2023
The development team that was set to close this week on a purchase of 100 acres of land in Eatonville has backed out of the sale, in a victory for residents who felt the project planned for the former Hungerford school site would have endangered the historic Black town’s... + más
Hungerford heir, Bethune opposed Orange district’s takeover of Black school | Orlando Sentinel
Plans for Eatonville’s future must not erase its celebrated past | Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel USA Crime March 27, 2023
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit against Orange County Public Schools over a controversial Eatonville land deal set to close on Friday. With the lawsuit, which was filed last week in circuit court, the Alabama-based civil rights organization seeks to stop the... + más
Orange district’s Hungerford land sale violates Eatonville residents’ civil rights, SPLC says | Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel USA Opinion March 12, 2023
The history of Eatonville’s Hungerford School is rooted in resilience, but soiled by greed and lies. This area’s leaders have one more chance to do the right thing. They should take it. Because this is bigger than the 100 acres that remain of a place founded by emancipated... + más
Orlando Sentinel USA Crime February 12, 2023
In an impassioned speech Tuesday night, Eatonville Mayor Angie Gardner called on her fellow town council members to vote against a proposal that would have cleared the path for a massive 100-acre development in the historic Black town. Gardner, others on the council and longtime... + más
Eatonville residents fight against planned sale, development of former school site | Orlando Sentinel
‘An exciting day’: Eatonville students eligible for new college scholarships | Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel USA Nation February 08, 2023
In a 4-1 vote, Eatonville’s town council denied a request to make changes to its comprehensive plan that would have allowed a massive project to continue on the land that once housed the historic Robert F. Hungerford Normal and Industrial School. The project, led by Winter... + más
Orlando Sentinel USA Nation December 04, 2022
In a last-ditch effort to stop the sale of 100 acres of land in Eatonville, residents have banded together to try to convince the town government to reject a plan to develop the area. Orange County Public Schools has owned the plot at Wymore Road and Kennedy Boulevard near... + más
Orlando Museum of Art, Zora fest presenter, Latinx fest could miss out on funding | Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel USA Crime October 03, 2022
Eatonville students who graduate from Orange County’s public high schools could be offered college scholarships under a new initiative modeled after the scholarship program hotelier Harris Rosen began nearly 30 years ago in another of the county’s low-income communities.... + más
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