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The Villages Grown

Support your community, buy local, and enjoy the freshest veggies available, grown in your neighborhood. Photos: Nicole Hamel The Villages management team’s long-time desire to create a local food system to help residents achieve healthy, full, and long lives has…

Villages artist Arrachme opens new gallery exhibition site

“Sourcing Solace,” a collection of abstract contemporary fine art paintings created by international award-winning artist Arrachme of The Villages will open a new gallery exhibition Dec. 1 at Plaza Lincoln of Leesburg. The public is invited to meet the artist…

Villages Elementary teacher named Music Educator of the Year

Rosemary Pilonero, music teacher at The Villages Elementary School, is has been named the 2021 Elementary Music Educator of the Year by the Florida Music Education Association (FMEA). Each year since 1989, FMEA honors a different music educator for outstanding…

Book Club: ‘One Day’

The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America. Story: Diane Dean What happened on a random Sunday – December 28, 1986 – is the basis for the book One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours…

In the Villages: Ghosts and goblins challenge Santa

The race is on to be Villagers’ top holiday. Story: Joe Angione When I was a kid (many decades ago), there was no holiday that came close to Christmas as the nation’s favorite. But today, witches, ghosts and goblins are running…

Villages theater offers viewers free virtual play reading on Friday

The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol in The Villages offers audiences a free virtual play reading every Friday at 1 p.m., and the Sept. 18 play will be “Cosmo St. Charles is Dead and Someone in This Room Killed Him” by…

AOI: Getting you back to the life you love

Keeping people active and doing what they love, is not only the passion of AOI’s Orthopedic Surgeons … it’s their life’s work. Paid Promotional Feature Joint or muscle pain, stiffness, locking, giving way (buckling), creaking, swelling or an inability to walk or play without pain…

American Cancer Society Announces inaugural ‘Real Men Wear Pink’ Campaign in The Villages

Local leaders, in an effort to raise awareness and funds in the fight to end breast cancer, have partnered with the American Cancer Society for a brand new, and virtual upcoming campaign in The Villages. Dubbed “Real Men Wear Pink…

Entertainment: The show must (may) go on

The Sharon has an exciting, diverse lineup for 2020-21—once the curtain is raised again. Photos: Nicole Hamel ho the heck is Nonnie and what aren’t we supposed to tell her? Music, theater and comedy fans can seek the answer when…

In The Villages: He’s an old cowhand

Villager Bob Oburn time-travels back to the great American West. Story: Joe Angione Villagers’ recreational activities are as varied as the 3,000 clubs they’ve organized to help enjoy them. But these clubs don’t represent what Hacienda North resident Bob Oburn,…