Lakeland, Polk County | featured news

If you want your say in who will sit on the Polk County School Board, the County Commission and a number of other public offices, you'll have your last chance Tuesday. On the ballot will be a number of partisan and nonpartisan races ranging from U.S. Congress to the Canal Commission in Winter Haven. Voting will occur from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The outcome has to be better this time for Polk County School District officials when they visit the Florida State Board of Education on Wednesday. They returned from a July meeting with a lot of work to do after the the State Board rejected their turnaround plan for five failing middle schools.

Florida Southern College has the largest one-site-collection of Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the world. The Ledger's photo gallery shows why the "Child of the Sun" collection has earned so much acclaim.

Friends of Colt Creek State Park will sponsor a Literacy Day event from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 11 at the park.

A shoreline stabilization and restoration project will begin on the south side of Lake Hollingsworth Sept. 12.

Southeastern University’s annual National Leadership Forum is getting a makeover.

When Lt. Matt Brown's wife, Lorie, called to give him the good news, he was so surprised that he needed proof to believe it.