By the end of the year, and for years to come, Woodbury Road will become a corridor of construction as multiple projects are poised to begin. Along with the planned extension and widening of Woodbury Road, traffic flow will face a slowdown due to a separate project that will lay a new transmission line for reclaimed water.

Mei Yao spent 20 years in the Navy, eventually graduating to chief petty officer. But an incident with a superior officer had her dishonorably discharged in 1990.

In the middle of Bithlo sits a place many residents call their second home. The people inside are like extended family — they find residents jobs, send them home with bread, and bring Christmas presents to their children when money is tight. In towns like Bithlo and Christmas, where the homes and trailers are broken down and the rent is high, a helping hand is essential.

Samantha Askey was, as her best friend Sarah Vermilyea described her, a “girly-girl.” The bouncy redhead loved to shop; one of her favorite mall stores was Claire’s, a costume jewelry boutique.

Ever since Jennifer Vendena moved into her home in a gated community in Eastwood seven years ago, she has had problems with trespassers cutting through her yard. Looking at a map, it’s easy to see why.

Ahealthier planet can result from a healthier you. According to several health and environmental experts, there is a strong correlation between the health of humans and their planet. “The link from the environment to human health is very real,” said Martin Quigley, director of University of Central Florida Campus Landscape and Natural Resources.

At 1 p.m. last Thursday, two reports come into the Department of Children and Families. The first involves a domestic dispute to which five children under age 12 were witness; the second is about two neglected children in East Orlando.

Newly opened Lake Nona Medical Center is accepting patients in the fields of pediatrics and internal medicine. The distinct practices are offered out of separate wings of the same facility at 10734 Moss Park Road.

About a month ago Debbie Shooter, owner of Florida Comedy Traffic School in East Orlando, began noticing a sharp drop in her court-ordered clientele. Shooter was never one to pay attention to activities within City Hall or Tallahassee, but she decided to start poking around to see why only a handful of wayward drivers were attending each of her driving classes.

It can be slow and clear-cut, or sly and quick — but when cancer hits, it hits hard, leaving in its wake people forever scarred by their brush with the deadly disease. For Conway resident Sandy Howell, cancer took her 50-year-old husband without warning. “On Sept. 10 he went into the hospital with dizziness. By Oct. 21 he was dead of melanoma,” she said. “There were no signs, there was no warning. It was tragic.”