Do a search on the online newspaper that we cannot link to for this headline, "Bears spotted Saturday morning on Rolling Acres Road and CR 466". It was last January, a good size bear sitting in the tree across from VFW next to the apartments that are also on the southside of the road.
I can link to this story, there is a photo of a bear in the Village of Winifred, it was posted July 2012.
Black Bear in the Village of Winifred
It only makes sense that we would see bears around here since there is quite a few bears in Silver Springs State Park east of Ocala and were always getting news reports about bears in trees in Orlando. We just happen to be along their route.