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Isaac Benjamin Babcock

Isaac creates editorial plans, working closely with the community to identify issues that affect people’s everyday lives. He is OCN’s resident photojournalist.

Isaac 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. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida, and may be best known for his roles in the annual Oviedo Cemetery Tour.

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Winter Springs passes budget, keeps tax rate frozen 

Winter Springs passed its 2023-2024 budget unanimously Monday, as well as keeping its tax rate flat. The city’s $72.7 million budget is $14 million more compared to the year before, an increase driven by rising property values. The budget sailed through Monday’s City Commission meeting unchanged from that which was proposed at a budget meeting on July 10. 

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