Rachel Donnelly

Orlando Citizen — Celebration

Rachel Donnelly

Celebration correspondent. Rachel covers Celebration as a beat of its own: the town Walt Disney’s company built from pasture in the 1990s, now a real Osceola County town with its own schools, hospital, boards and arguments. She files on the villages and front porches, Market Street’s shops, the trails and lakes, and the public bodies whose decisions set the town’s fees, rules and calendar.

She reports from the public record — Celebration CDD budgets and board minutes, CROA filings and Town Hall calendars, Osceola County documents and school district releases — checked the day a story runs. If a date, price or figure is in her copy, it traces to a document or an official source a reader can check.

What she covers: the Celebration Community Development District and the Celebration Residential Owners Association; Celebration K-8 and Celebration High School as community institutions; town events and traditions; AdventHealth Celebration; town-center dining and small business; Celebration real estate and new phases; and the US-192 corridor growth pressing on the town’s edges.

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Rachel Donnelly is a staff reporter of the Orlando Citizen newsroom.