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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.

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.

Isaac's Latest Articles

Senate bill 812 construction Oviedo development fees
Oviedo looks to raise development fees to ‘highest amount’ to pay for city’s growth

Backyard cottages get a boost as Oviedo braces for 5,000 more residents in 10 years as city seeks to raise development fees.

In quick vote, Oviedo names new connector road after bank

City survey of residents saw cheerleader Caitlin Downing, war hero Alwyn Cashe among top vote getters for the new connector road from Geneva Drive to State Road 434.

Sunrail night train
SunRail gets more night trains

Multiple new trains and times set to start in first permanent schedule change since 2014, including a more dining and nightlife-friendly set of late trains.

¡Viva Oviedo! brings thousands to Center Lake Park

First-of-its-kind ¡Viva Oviedo! event danced the night away with music, Latin food and more.

Seminole County Commission Chair Jay Zembower
Seminole County Commission fires back after state CFO ‘overspending’ accusations

“What they are doing is a mission,” Commissioner Lee Constantine said. “It is not based on science or an audit or anything else.”

Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
First Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster in America splashes down in Altamonte Springs

The inaugural Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster in Altamonte Springs is part of a series of eccentric sports created across the globe.

While voting for tax increases, Seminole County blames state, political forces

On source of Seminole County gas, utility tax increases ‘We need to be more outraged,’ Commissioner says

Seminole County fire tanker truck Winter Springs Serve Academy
Winter Springs High School gets updated Serve Academy

In addition to a renovated firefighter academy, the School Board also discussed having administrators shadow students in class.

Oviedo art studio The Artistic Hand Del Seaman
Space cats and flying pigs: The eccentric strength of Del Seaman’s Artistic Hand 

After two traumatic moments, the Oviedo studio The Artistic Hand lives on thanks to an adoptive family of artists. 

Hagerty band camp
Once canceled, Hagerty band camp returns to a heroic soundtrack

A score of music about heroes and villains is just a coincidence, Jeremy Williamson said, as Hagerty band camp makes its triumphant return.