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Applications Open for Lakeland’s Free High School Police Academy Summer Camp

The weeklong camp gives high school students a taste of a career in law enforcement.

The overhaul offers the latest educational technology in three new buildings, built in part on old athletic fields.

Thousands of teachers, paraeducators and secretarial staff will receive raises retroactive to July 1 in Thursday’s paycheck.

The first classes were held in St. John’s Baptist Church in 1884, but suspicious fires in 1898, 1905 and 1927 hindered education.

PCPS has been field testing the system, which includes a parent app and tablets that can read student IDs.

Anne Kerr, who became president in 2004, plans to retire this year. A search for her successor will begin immediately.

Students fanned out across Lakeland to deliver 71 singing telegrams on Wednesday.

Middle and high school winners now advance to the state science fair at the RP Funding Center on April 2-4.

Lake Gibson’s Emmalee Robertson earned reserve grand champion in the Commercial Market Steer division

Applications are due by Feb. 12 for the full-tuition ‘Business Opportunity Scholarship’ to Florida Technical College, valued at $61,178.