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Abe Aboraya

Abe is the Local Government Accountability Reporter for Oviedo Community News and is a Report for America corps member. His work has appeared on NPR, ProPublica, Kaiser Health News and StoryCorps. He spent 2018 investigating post-traumatic stress disorder in first responders, and investigated why paramedics didn’t enter Pulse nightclub to bring out victims. In 2018, the Florida Associated Press Professional Broadcasters Contest awarded that series second place in the investigative category and first place in the public affairs category. Aboraya holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida. His first journalism job in 2007 was covering the city of Winter Springs in Seminole County. A father of two, Aboraya spends his free time reading and writing fiction and enjoying his second home in the Hyrule kingdom.

Reach Abe by email at abeaboraya@oviedocommunitynews.org

Abe's Latest Articles

Riverside Park pool, community center repairs coming soon
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October 4, 2023
An image shows audience members at Tuesday night's Seminole County School Board meeting holding up placards to show whether they agreed or disagreed with the speaker. One side was red (showing disagreement) and the other side was green (showing agreement).
No new book bans in Seminole
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September 20, 2023

Seminole County Public Schools’ meeting went late into the evening Tuesday night, as members of Moms for Liberty took hours reading excerpts from books the group wants to see banned from the schools. 

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Teaching 9/11 at Oviedo High School as someone who was there
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September 13, 2023

On September 11, 2001, Jessica Jenkins was home, sleeping off the nightshift, when her parents woke her up with the news: The U.S. was under attack.  The Oviedo High School history teacher talks about her own experience through 9/11.

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See what the newly approved tax rate for Seminole schools means for you
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September 6, 2023

Seminole County Public Schools has approved a tax rate for next year that’s a slight drop from the year before. 

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