The latest Florida test scores show Polk is struggling, with students scoring below the state average.
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Posted inA & E, People
LSO Names New Executive Director: Lakeland Native Ashley Miller
Ashley Metts Miller, a Lakeland native, has been named executive director of the Lakeland Symphony Orchestra.
Posted inHealth, Neighborhoods
Plans for 541-Bed Hospital in South Lakeland Rile Neighbors
Some residents around Harrell’s Nursery Road off of County Road 540A are having nightmares about screaming ambulance sirens, hovering helicopters and the traffic back-up of nearly 400 cars a hospital shift change could bring.
Posted inCity Hall, Consumer
City’s Broadband Partner Shifts Its Initial Focus Away From Individual Homes
Summit Broadband has shifted its residential roll-out plans away from individual homes in favor of multi-family communities.
Posted inActivism, Politics
Lakeland Reacts to Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
As black clouds threatened rain, about 20 pro-choice protesters lined Florida Avenue in front of Southgate Shopping Plaza Friday evening.
Posted inA & E, Events
Rodin Exhibit Opens at the Polk Museum of Art on Saturday
Works from the most famous name in modern sculpture have taken their places inside the exhibit halls of the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College, waiting for the public to view them starting on Saturday when the doors open at 10 a.m.
Posted inCity Hall, Housing
Lakeland Uses Federal and State Programs to Help with the Housing Crisis
James and Lavern Watkins dreamed of owning their own home to raise their children and looked for several years, but couldn’t find anything in their price range.
Posted inNews
Lakeland Recognizes June as Pride Month, Leaving a Handful Unhappy
A small group of people at Monday morning’s Lakeland City Commission meeting waited for an hour following a proclamation by Mayor Bill Mutz, which recognized June as “LGBTQ Pride Month,” so they could voice their opposition to what several called “an abomination” and “sexual perversion.”
Posted inBusiness, Dining
Poor Porker Making Way for a Coffeehouse and Marketplace
The Poor Porker announced it is closing its doors after a farewell party to make way for Unfiltered Lakeland, a “coffeehouse, marketplace, eventspace.”
Posted inA & E, People
Artist Depicts Lakeland Icon, Wins Top Award
The mid-century modern, 70-foot-tall orange arch and green slash, with Southgate scrawled across it in white, has long been an icon of the South Florida Avenue shopping center since it was built in 1957, making appearances in the films “Edward Scissorhands” and “The One and Only Ivan.” Now it is part of an award-winning painting […]