Frustration boiled over in Mount Dora this weekend as questions were raised over the city's handling of memorial benches, ...

The battle over memorial benches in Mount Dora is continuing. Some people are upset after they paid to honor a loved one with ...

THOSE THAT BROUGHT THE BENCH TO THE CITY SAID THEY WANTED A PERMANENT MEMORIAL IN SAINT CLOUD, BECAUSE IT’S WHERE MADDIE’S REMAINS WERE FOUND. AFTER GOING MISSING IN FEBRUARY OF 2024.

Families have purchased memorial benches that have been at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery for years. They say the cemetery’s removal of some of those benches surprised them, and they want to know why.

“Parks department here, allowed us to put a memorial here, with a park bench,” Litterell said. Litterell and other survivors erected the bench in 1999, 50 years after the wreck, spending their ...