Kniss explained that it’s a “dewatering” system because the water table in Lakeland is high. If you dig down 2 to 4 feet, ...

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 Polk County’s most decorated athlete, according to the ...

Hooks and his wife, Debbie Hooks, have two children, Emily Hooks and Hamilton Hooks, who both live in Lakeland.

The Junior League of Greater Lakeland was founded in March of 1933. Ninety-two years later, on May 7, the local organization, ...

Gillian Fazio, the muralist, Ashley Gibson Barnet t, the philanthropist and entrepreneur, Ashley Miller, the executive director of the Lakeland Symphony Orchestra and Tiffany Van Weiren, the ...

On a bustling, stormy morning at Rath Senior ConNEXTions Center, volunteers hurry out of the rain, folders and umbrellas tucked under their arms, ready to answer calls. They could be from a woman ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has “good video” of a teenager who shot the driver of a white Mercedes sedan around 1:30 p.m. Monday, sending it crashing into the bedroom of a duplex in the Secret ...

Georganne Smither Dodge, age 79, passed away on May 7, 2025, of Parkinsons in Lakeland. Born in White Plains, New York on ...

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Shirley Mae Wuellner passed away peacefully into eternal rest on April 29, 2025. She was a devoted wife, mother, and granny to so many who loved her. She was born in Cincinnati, OH, on September 24, ...