Winter Park’s year-end festivities will be called “Holidays on Park,” dropping last year’s Christmas branding, as the executive director and three board members of the business group overseeing holiday decorations for the city exit in the wake of a controversy over what to call the celebration.

Carina Sexton announced Monday she was leaving the executive director’s post she’s had since April 2023, according to Alan Chambers, president of the Park Avenue District board. Exiting the board are Vice President Tracy Brand-Liffey, owner of New General Café; Tracy Klingler, who owns lifestyle boutique Frank; and Ginny Enstad of Ginny’s Orchids.

Chambers said none of the departures were connected to the festivity-naming brouhaha, which blew up several weeks ago when city officials at the urging

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