​Artists and businesses let their creative juices flow for this year's Bra-Vo event, an annual art bra fundraiser for free or low cost mammograms in Lake County. 

The exhibit that will run October 1-25 and highlight the many artists, students and sponsors that have taken the challenge to submit a creative and inspiring art bra entry.  Read more...

​"I  was hit hard on one play but got right up and tried to shove the guy out of bounds." 

That was how Cassandra Patrick, a freshman at Mount Dora High School (MDHS), described the first hit she took during her inaugural junior varsity football  game this season.    Read more...

The Fall season has many locals looking forward to the cooler weather and everything it brings.  For less fortunate local families, the change in temperatures can create a hardship when trying to keep their families bundled up during cold snaps.

"Keep Lake Warm" is a hoodie and jacket drive currently underway to benefit Lake Cares Food Pantry  read more...

Get lost.  And have a blast doing it.  

The annual corn maze at Long & Scott Farm opens on October 3.  The popular seasonal attraction brings in an estimated 1500-2000 weekend visitors, according to Rebecca Ryan, the farm's agri-tainment manager.   Read more...

 ​Business is always competitive.  Yet. this fall promises to turn the heat up just a little.  

Mount Dora businesses will face off against each other at the Mount Dora Lawn Bowling Club’s  Fall “Bowling Blast" tournament beginning September 30.  Sixteen business teams will bowl for bragging rights, prizes and a trophy.  Read more...

'Tis the season for many vacant spaces to be dusted off, repainted and given new life downtown.  Finishing touches are currently being done to the decor, displays and merchandising of The Lacy Ladybug, a women's boutique set to open September 26 in the Renaissance Building. 

The bright, contemporary store distinguishes itself as being "a unique, chic, curvy ladies' boutique" featuring fashionable women's apparel in sizes twelve and above.   The shop will also stock complementary women's handbags and costume jewelry.

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Locals are passionate about the many shops, restaurants, live music venues, charming neighborhoods and other distinctive features that make Mount Dora a thriving community.   The Best of Mount Dora awards gives residents the chance to share their appreciation and spread the good word.   

This fall's 14 new categories asks 'Buzz' readers to vote for their favorite chef, happy hour, local musician, salon, neighborhoods and more.    Click here to get your ballot.  Voting ends October 7. 
 To read the winners of 2015 spring categories, click here...

New restaurants take time to build a following.  Occasionally, one starts with a driving force.

Tavares' newest restaurant, Eduardo's Lokos Tacos, opened earlier this month after one year pleasing patrons out of a popular food truck in Mount Dora at the intersection of US 441 and Wolf Branch Road.  Read more and its review...

Mount Dora’s longest-standing festival will take place in the next four weeks. For forty-one years the annual Mount Dora Bicycle Festival has been held in this charming town. This year the festival is going to bring as many as 2,000 cyclists from at least fifteen states and three countries. And this year promises to be one of the very best – and biggest- ever.   Starting and ending at the Mount Dora Area Chamber of Commerce each morning at 7am from October 9-11th... Read more...

Maybe it's something in the water.  Something that ignites the right side of the brain with intense musicality and creativity.   Whatever the reason, Mount Dora seems to be an incubator for emerging music artists. 

One local singer and songwriter, Jeff Whitfield, apparently drank much more than his share of the water.   Read more...

Amid the vibrant shops and diverse restaurants,  Mount Dora's prize gem is its creative subculture. 

Sitting atop a short hill, a large contemporary building veils its treasure trove of artists from sight.  The three-story Baker Building on 3rd Avenue and Baker Street is the current epicenter of the city's growing colony of artists.  Read more...

Lots of passion and hard work  have been the key ingredients in turning Mount Dora's annual Bicycle Festival into one of Central Florida’s premier cycling events.  

This year the event expects to double the number of riders from last year’s 1361, according to Tracy Draper, the event’s chairperson.    The revamped festival presently has record pre-registrations for the three day event starting October 9.  Read more...

Ahead of the tourist invasion this fall, crews of one-eyed pirates will be descending on Mount Dora this month.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day has been celebrated by downtown's Cupcake Delights for the past 3 years after its owner, Judy Owens,  looked for something fun to do during a slow month when her daughter, Taylor,  suggested the pirate event.   Taylor loved the Pirates of the Caribbean series and talking like a pirate, so thought it would be a fun event.  Read more...