Windermere resident Jake Carsten, 17, recently built a flag retirement box in the town of Windermere as part of his journey to earn the esteemed rank of Eagle Scout.
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After months of waiting, a Hindu congregation will likely find out soon if it can move its spiritual home from Orlando to a new temple in Gotha, a rural settlement in west Orange County, where residents are bothered by the building’s proposed size. If granted permission, followers of the Hindu denomination known as BAPS, short for Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, would .
Kathleen Klare spent several years gathering details of the Gotha community’s rich past and unearthed some interesting facts about the residents and their lives.