Pat Kelley, the long-time mayor of Minneola, is leaving city hall to hit the campaign trail. In a statement to News 6, Kelley said under his almost two decades as mayor of Minneola, the city has grown from 8,000 residents to 24,000, and brought things like an interchange for the Florida Turnpike, four new schools and a hospital.

An ongoing effort to protect a rural Lake County community from large-scale development is getting closer to the solution residents and advocates have been pushing for.

Officials with AdventHealth and Minneola broke ground Thursday on a hospital that will bring inpatient care to the growing population of south Lake County.

It's hard to find a county in Florida experiencing more development than Lake County.