Condosta, age 74, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2025, in Polk City, Florida, with her devoted husband of 52 years, Lee ...

1-minute read Florida Southern College has appointed Andrew Phillip Payne as the founding dean of its new School of Architecture, the college announced Wednesday. Payne, an experienced administrator ...

Robert Meyerowitz has been a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. He covered Central America and the Middle East, he was the cofounder and editor of the Anchorage Press in Alaska, and he taught ...

1-minute read After a day that saw thousands pass through Munn Park to attend Pride in The Park, hundreds began to gather there at the south end, along East Main Street, on Saturday just after 5 p.m.

He has served on the Lakeland Mayor’s Council for the Arts, and the boards of the Florida Dance Theatre, Arts4All Florida, the Florida Alliance for Arts Education, and the Lakeland Community Theatre.

Lake Hollingsworth Drive was closed just east of Fairmount Avenue on May 19 for emergency sewer repairs that took several days. West Lake Parker Drive was closed between Tropical Way and El Paseo from ...

3-minute read Lakeland residents are showing up for their mental health. The system of mental health providers doesn’t always show up for them. Despite rising awareness of the importance of mental ...

The Florida problem — as described by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). 1 in 5 U.S. adults experiences mental illness each year. An estimated 796,000 adults in Florida didn’t get needed ...

Local Impact: First United Methodist Church is a BreakSpot Community Partner. Its program, also known as their Summer Feed program, serves 30 breakfasts and 60 lunches, Monday–Thursday to children ...

That raised Williams’s gold-medal total in her athletic career to 11, including two that she won while still in the eighth grade — making her one of Polk County’s most decorated athletes, according to ...

She’s been supporting herself as a professional artist since she left the University of Florida with a Fine Arts degree in 2017, which makes her unusually successful in her field. The artists who have ...

Non-dairy: Mootown also has mango sorbet, a chocolate mousse flavor that is coconut -rather than dairy-based, and a pea-based peanut-butter-and-cookies flavor. And there are milkshakes, root beer ...