Isaac is a co-founder of Oviedo Community News. He creates editorial plans, working closely with the community to identify issues that affect people’s everyday lives. He is OCN’s resident photojournalist.
He is a longtime local journalist and former managing editor of the Seminole Voice. His work has been featured in Golfweek magazine, the New York Times and Jalopnik. He has won more than a dozen Florida Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists awards and contributed to award-winning, in-depth work for the NPR member station 90.7 WMFE.
Isaac holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida’s Nicholson School of Communication and Media, and may be best known for his many roles in the annual Oviedo Cemetery Tour. He enjoys hiking, running, sailing, motorcycling, modifying cars, inventing things, baking and going on adventures into forests and up snowy mountains with his family.
Oviedo residents heavily backed additional rural boundary protections in the same election night that saw Jason Brodeur, who attempted to reduce rural protections, ousted.
Big upsets rocked Seminole County politics and shook up the state legislature. Expect full Seminole County (and beyond) 2026 general election results as they come in live in this story.
On the patio and inside, Oviedo Community News' anniversary party Tuesday, Sept. 15 takes over Spill Wine Bar again this year with a trivia night, charcuterie board, drink tickets and good conversation as a thank you to our readers and supporters.
Seminole County School Board incumbents Kristine Kraus and Autumn Garick won big on election night, with a narrow race going down to the final count for the third seat.
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