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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

Oviedo meeting Oviedo tax increase
Packed house in Oviedo for tax increase, water fee proposals

Most residents who spoke seemed to understand why the city was considering an 18% tax increase in Oviedo. 

Natural lands Seminole County Yarborough
Amendment to further protect natural lands heads to ballot 

Unanimous vote by County Commission will give voters the chance to strengthen the county’s laws preserving natural lands this November. 

4th of July Oviedo 4th of July
Mayor wants to build on Oviedo 4th of July (or 6th of July) win

Despite unorthodox timing for the Oviedo 4th of July, residents came out on the 6th and Mayor Megan Sladek wants a bigger event for 2025.

Seminole County supervisor of elections candidates

The incumbent supervisor of elections candidate goes head-to-head with a former school board member in the 2024 Primary Election.

Judicial candidates

Learn who's running for circuit judge, who's sailing through uncontested and what power these judge seats have.

Election results
State committeeman and state committeewoman candidates

Learn about the folks vying for seats that work to register Republican voters.

Storage lot Winter Springs
Enclave finds potential new storage lot future in Winter Springs

The 8.17-acre parcel of land, near where the Seminole County trail bends northwest at the intersection of State Roads 419 and 434, had sat unused except for a single home on the property.

Winter Springs City Manager finalists hail from around the country
Winter Springs’ new city manager vote fails as some decry “sabotage”

A vote to hire a new Winter Springs city manager failed because of unspecified objections by two commissioners.

Waste Pro employees pick up recycling
Winter Springs votes to catch up on solid waste fees 

A solid waste fee that sat stagnant for nearly 20 years will have to increase to meet rising waste disposal costs to Winter Springs.

Winter Springs mulls a storage lot 

An RV and boat storage lot is being considered at the apex of one of Winter Springs' most well-traveled gateways by the City Commission

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