36 Oakland Park Families Have a Happy Easter Thanks To A Community Effort
Oakland Park is a small city of just over 45,000 residents, but it’s small size doesn’t prevent it from doing things in a big way. When it comes to helping one another Oakland Parkers always go big and they never go home until the deed is done. This spirit of caring and charity was especially […]
First Oakland Park Community Check-In Live Broadcast a Hit!
There is no doubt that the Coronavirus has forced us all to adapt to a situation that none of us had ever lived through. Some of us are coping with it better than others, but all of us are having to learn to cope somehow. Dr. Mitch Rosenwald, Oakland Park resident, and professor of social […]
Timeless Fashion in Oakland Park: Vintage Diversity Offers Decades of Style
For over 15 years, Oakland Park has been the home of Vintage Diversity. Located at 236 Prospect Rd. in Oakland Park, FL 33309, Vintage Diversity offers a variety of styles to fit any era. Melanie Garbo, founder and owner, of Vintage Diversity, takes us on a journey of how her unique business model operates, when […]
Oakland Park Urges The Use of Face Masks
If you gone out to complete essential tasks like grocery shopping it is clear that not everyone is taking the threat of the coronavirus seriously. Many don’t wear face masks or gloves or take any type of precaution. Unfortunately many of those not taking precautions are personnel working in grocery stores and other essential businesses. […]
Oakland Park Volunteers Make a Difference
After graduating from the city’s Local Government Academy, or LGA, in 2010, Pat Crowley knew she wanted to give back to the community she’d called home since the 1970’s but didn’t know how. As the president of her condo’s HOA board and still working full time as a payroll specialist for the Ed More Automotive […]
Chainbridge Distillery: A Family Tradition Celebrates its First Year in Oakland Park
For the past year, the city of Oakland Park has been honored to be the home of the Náhori family owned and operated Chainbridge Distillery, located at 3500 NE 11th Avenue in the Culinary Arts District. This local distillery, named after the Széchenyi bridge in Budapest, Hungary, specializes in quality fruit brandies, specialty spirits and […]
Oakland Park Receives $250,000 Energy Grant
Local and county officials gathered for a ceremony Feb. 21 to highlight the upgraded lighting system at Wimberly Fields Park. The city of Oakland Park received a $250,000 grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Office of Energy. The grant was used to retrofit energy efficient LED lighting at Wimberly Fields Park. […]
Oakland Park Grows Itself From The Ground Up
On February 29th, Oakland Park had a tree giveaway at Wimberly Athletic Field, at 4000 NE 3rd Avenue. Twice a year, residents and business owners line up to receive free trees and shrubs given away by the city. What’s great about this is that only native (N) and Florida-friendly (FF) shrubs and trees are given […]
Why Did The Car Drive Into The House?
Yesterday at approximately 4:00pm, residents of Whispering Lakes in Oakland Hills in west Oakland Park were stunned when a silver Yukon SUV sped through the neighborhood and crashed right in the middle of a house at the end of a cul-de-sac. Dulce Avila, a 31 year resident of the neighborhood and the City of Oakland […]
Dr. Carter G Woodson Park: A Park with a Name
To understand the namesake of Dr. Carter G Woodson Park, one must travel back in time. Starting in Oakland Park’s earliest days when settlers came to the area in search of fruitful land to grow crops. This brought many sharecroppers to the area such as R.J. McBride, an Irish settler who bought acreage in Oakland […]
