Communication Builds Our Community
Communication Builds Our Community
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Mary Best saw on the television news from her Tampa home the Polk County Clerk's Office was holding at group wedding on Valentine's Day. This was after she had called the Hillsborough County Clerk's Office to see if they were doing something like that. On Thursday, Feb. 14, she and Nathan Best Jr. came to the Polk County History Center where they and 13 other couples were joined in matrimony. This is the sixth year the clerk's office has held the ceremony which is followed by...
Science fiction enthusiasts from the Lake Wales area only had to travel about 15 miles east Saturday, Feb. 16 to meet up with comic book icons, superheroes and other people involved in the Steampunk movement. Tens of thousands of people hit Main Street for the sixth annual SyFy Bartow. Up and down Main Street from Broadway to nearly Oak there were people dressed up as Star Trek, Star Wars, Batman, Aquaman and there were plenty in Steampunk garb as this year's theme was...
In its efforts to get more voters to the polls this November, the Democrat Party moved its headquarters to a more centrally located place in Polk County. On Feb 2 the local political party had an open house at 1549 E. Combee Road in Lakeland moving from Haines City. "This is wonderful," said Polk state committeewoman Karen Welzel. "This is the beginning of what we'll turn in Polk County." About 100 people attended the opening of the office in Polk and Chair and the Executive...
Polk County commissioners sent plans for a large gas station and convenience store back to the Polk County Planning Commission after hearing public concerns that the development is too large for the area and might harm Crooked Lake. The gas station – a Circle K is being planned By Atlantic Funding Limited – would be at the intersection of U.S. 27 and County Road 640 just outside Lake Wales. It was proposed to have 28 spaces to pump gas. There would be no overnight par...
