Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Florida, Orlando

Photographer and Videographer at Orlando Sentinel

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Mount Dora study IDs likely source of pungent mystery smell

5 days ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

The source of a mystery stench that has plagued Mount Dora residents and visitors for years may finally have been identified by consultants for the city and Lake County. Now the question is what to do about it. According to the consultants’ 83-page report, funded by a combined $270,000 from the two local governments, the Mid Florida Materials Mount Dora landfill on State Road 46 is likely generating the hydrogen sulfide gas that gives off the pungent odor.
Ocoee Centennial: City celebrates 100 years with ‘birthday party,’ time capsule

6 days ago | bradenton.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Ocoee Mayor Rusty Johnson, who has lived in the city for 70 years, has always considered the West Orange County community as a “great place to live.”The longtime Central Floridian has watched the city grow from around 12,000 people when he started as a city commissioner in 1986 to around 51,000 now. Johnson will join the growing community in celebrating Ocoee’s centennial with a big birthday party at Bill Breeze Park this weekend and a time capsule celebration next week.
Ocoee Centennial: City celebrates 100 years with ‘birthday party,’ time capsule

6 days ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Ocoee Mayor Rusty Johnson, who has lived in the city for 70 years, has always considered the West Orange County community as a “great place to live.”The longtime Central Floridian has watched the city grow from around 12,000 people when he started as a city commissioner in 1986 to around 51,000 now. Johnson will join the growing community in celebrating Ocoee’s centennial with a big birthday party at Bill Breeze Park this weekend and a time capsule celebration next week.
Amid Florida property tax debate, city and county budgets have ballooned

6 days ago | bradenton.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Central Florida county budgets have ballooned since 2020, fueled partly by rising property tax collections that have pumped billions more dollars into municipal accounts. In Orange County, the annual spending plan grew by $1.7 billion in the last five years, with property tax collections up by about 40 percent, according to an Orlando Sentinel analysis. The four other largest local budgets in Central Florida swelled by at least $100 million in that time period.
Orange County Animal Services Arm Your Pet Event

1 week ago | orlandosentinel.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda
Haupia is a sweet aloha for Asian-American, Pacific Islander Heritage Month

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Hung Nguyen did not invent haupia. Or malasadas. Or haupia malasadas. But he may have coined a portmanteau that could one day join the likes of cronut, gastropub and frappuccino in the larger foodie lexicon: alohasada. These munchkin-sized, fried-to-order delights are a favorite at Nguyen’s Aloha Hawaiian Kitchen, where fans of haupia can enjoy that cool, creamy hit and those less familiar with this Hawaiian staple dessert can taste what all the fuss is about.
‘No Buddy Left Behind’: New program has veterans help homeless veterans

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Jarold Walters was outside a gas station trying to figure out how he was going to eat and where he was going to sleep when a man wearing a “Go Army” lanyard approached and asked if he was a veteran. Navy, said Walters, who served during the Gulf War. I can help you, Michael Bailey said. "I told him, I don't believe you," said Walters who had been homeless for a year, sleeping in an unairconditioned car with his girlfriend and, after losing the car, in the street.
Trump budget would slash NASA funds, kill off Artemis’ SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget looks to end the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway space station central to NASA’s existing Artemis program - but only after a successful moon landing as the nation remains in a race with China.
Through nonprofit, local chefs teach Central Florida families to feed themselves on a budget

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Karey Wilmott used to be a frozen veggies girl. “I hate to admit it,” says Wilmott, mother of two daughters, Maleah, 16, and Madison, 6.
Immigrant, labor groups protest Orange County agreement with ICE

1 week ago | bradenton.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis trumpeted the arrests of more than 1,100 in Florida during an immigration enforcement sting, protesters gathered at the Orange County Jail to demand the county stop working with ICE. More than 50 people attended the Thursday event organized by Immigrants Are Welcome Here - a coalition of immigrant rights, labor and social justice groups.