🏠 Home prices going up

🤠Good Tuesday to you all!

Leesburg has something fun to add to your calendar. We're told "a rootin' tootin' good time" can be had at the Wild West Pub Crawl happening on July 27 in downtown Leesburg.

Participants can dress in cowboy boots and hats and saddle up to downtown Leesburg bars (and bars for the night) such as McCracken's Irish Pub, Marmadukes Lodge, Sipping Garden & Bistro, Brick & Barrel Public House, Great Chicago Fire Brewery, Turner's Kitchen + Bar, Two Old Haggs Wine Shoppe, Wolf Branch Brewing, Hamerick Family Vineyards, The Warehouse, Prime 3 Steakhouse and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Click here for tickets.

👙 Summer lovin': We at DC want to share your awesome local summer memory in this newsletter. Email us at Daily Briefing at news@dailycommercial.com , and include a photo of a precious Lake County moment for us to include in our Tuesday Mailbag section of the newsletter.

🏠Homes in Lake County keep getting a little more expensive

Newly released data from Realtor.com shows that the median home sales price in March was 1.4% higher than it was in February in Lake County. Click here to find out more about the local real estate market.

📰More news you can use

🐻 Bearly legal: Because wandering bears have had Panhandle residents on alert, north Florida lawmakers have successfully enacted a new Florida stand your ground law against black bears and, unlike other recent legislation, it got no veto from Gov. Ron DeSantis. (What if lawmakers had said it was an act of creative expression to shoot bears? The governor vetoed almost all arts funding .) Note: It was legal to shoot a bear in self-defense before the bill went through, but you had to say you were in actual danger. So, starting on July 1, you can shoot a bear if one just passes through your backyard. (But, please, don't unless you really need to.)

😯 'A huge ask': Conservationists urge Lake voters to register Republican to retain County Commissioner Doug Shields.

🚘 Young speeder crashes dance floor. Literally. Read more to find out about a unique "life-dance" studio in Howey-in-the-Hills and why it urgently needs our help .

PM thunderstorms ... so, what's new? The Weather Channel forecasts a high of 90 and a low of 75 degrees. Humidity ranges from 75 to 87 percent.

📧Tuesday Mailbag: Spreading the local music love

Re: Tipsy Sparrows/Marmadukes Friday show preview in Daily Commercial weekend guide. I harked back to an old Reese's commercial to describe their sound .

From: Duke Gaffney, singer and guitarist for the band

Loved the write up- very clever. Thank you.

Response: My pleasure!

✍ Stay connected with us, dear readers! Don't forget to share your news, recommendations and pics. Email us at news@dailycommercial.com .

Bye for now!

JG

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