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Inklings Book Shoppe Is Moving to Downtown Lakeland
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Give The Gift of Arts and Culture
As the holiday season rolls merrily along, gift-giving opportunities abound. The Polk Arts & Cultural Alliance (PACA) – Polk County’s Local Arts Agency – is encouraging everyone to consider adding art and cultural experiences to your holiday shopping list. “When you buy local art, you’re not only...
Photos and Video: 42nd Annual Lakeland Christmas Parade
Thousands of people converged on downtown Lakeland for the city’s 42nd annual Christmas Parade. Business owners, marching bands, schools, churches, and local notables took to downtown streets to wave at the crowds. The 42nd Annual Lakeland Christmas Parade from City of Lakeland on Vimeo.
Clash of Visions: Lakeland and Auburndale at Odds Over Proposed Warehouse Near Florida Poly
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Father Remembers His 15-Year-Old Son Killed in Bus Accident
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2023 Christmas Parade: What to Know Before You Go
I founded LkldNow in 2015 with a vision to create a local news organization that serves the public and fosters community connections. What started as a one-man volunteer operation has slowly grown into a small but mighty newsroom and a primary source for local news. But LkldNow can continue only if you find value in our work and help support it. Every gift helps — especially right now! Thanks to our matching funds from local partners as well as the national NewsMatch program, every donation made between now and the end of the year will be doubled!
LaLonde Wins Runoff Election for NW District Seat on Lakeland’s City Commission
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15-Year-Old Lakeland Student on Bicycle Hit and Killed by School Bus
A 15-year-old Central Florida Aerospace Academy student was hit and killed by a Schools of McKeel Academy bus early Tuesday morning on West Pipkin Road, just west of Medulla Road. Lakeland Police said the boy was riding his bicycle and trying to cross West Pipkin Road at 6:58 a.m. just...
Election Day: Lakeland Voters to Decide Between LaLonde and Simmons
It’s Election Day. Lakeland voters will head to the polls between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. to decide between businessman Guy LaLonde Jr. and interim Commissioner Samuel Simmons for the city’s northwest district commission seat. The runoff election was necessary because no candidate in the original three-way race...
Lakeland Seeks 10- to 12-Foot Bike and Pedestrian Trail Along Ingraham Avenue
Lakeland plans to convert the sidewalks on five blocks of Ingraham Avenue north of Florida Southern College to a 10- to 12-foot multi-use bicycle and pedestrian trail. City commissioners unanimously approved a resolution Monday to apply for state funding to create a trail path along the west side of the road from Frank Lloyd Wright Way to Bartow Road.
Lakeland Electric: Damaged $10 Million RICE Engine Will Be Replaced
Instead of trying to fix a $10 million engine for Lakeland Electric’s new power plant that was damaged in an Oct. 17 train derailment, the manufacturing company is going to ship a new one. The damaged unit was one of six high-efficiency, 680,000-pound reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) that...
Shuffleboard Courts at Lake Parker Park to Get a Makeover
Lakeland’s shuffleboard players are getting younger, but many of the courts they play on at Lake Parker Park are showing their age. “The 16 courts that are under cover are fine. We don’t have to replace those. It’s the 16 that are not under cover that, over the years, the surface has deteriorated,” Assistant Parks Director Pam Page said at a City Commission agenda study session on Friday.
Chestnut Road to Close for Three Months Starting Dec. 18
A road south of Kathleen Senior High School will be getting a long-sought sidewalk in the coming months. Chestnut Road will be closed south of Memorial Boulevard for about three months starting Dec. 18 so a sidewalk can be installed from Butler Drive to Yeats Street. The road closure is necessary so drainage can be improved in the narrow right of way.
Lakeland Weighs Accepting $14.6 Million Payout from 3M and DuPont for PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in City Water
City commissioners only have a couple of days left to decide if they want to keep Lakeland in a massive class action lawsuit against DuPont and 3M for contaminating public water systems — including ours — with toxic “forever chemicals.”. City Attorney Palmer Davis told commissioners on...
Berrien Gives Simmons Last-Minute Endorsement in Lakeland City Commission Runoff
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WonderHere Schoolhouse Launches Fundraising Campaign to ‘Keep the Dream Alive’
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Early Walk-In Voting Begins in Runoff for Lakeland’s NW District
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Polk County Teacher of the Year Inspires Through Fun And Love
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Lakeland Native Juli McShay Releases Family-Inspired Cookbook
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Barnett Family Encourages Lakelanders to ‘Walk to End Alzheimer’s’ on Dec. 9
In 2015, Wesley Barnett, his brother Nick, their wives, and their father Barney Barnett began to see changes in the family’s matriarch, Carol Jenkins Barnett. “We just noticed, you know, small declines, the ability to remember things, telling the same stories over and over and just not really being as sharp as she had always been,” Wesley, 38, told LkldNow. “We really didn’t know what it was at first, but we went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester and did a full gamut of tests.”
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