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Give it Some Gas, Grandma
Start your engines and glue down those dentures, Polk County. It’s time for the 2022 NAMSER Races. The Polk Elderly Alliance and Polk...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2022


Unlikely Vandal Caught Mid-‘F’art
The time was 2:04 am on October 9, 2021. A security system picked up movement outside an arts organization in Winter Haven. An alarm rang...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2022


Chewz Wisely
A buzzsaw drowned out the tink, tink, tink of a hammer on a nail as we walked through a busy construction site with Winter Haven...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2022


Promo Applications
A twenty-seven-year-old Polk County native is soon to launch an app poised to revolutionize the event and promotion scene. The Promo App,...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 1, 2022


The Lost Words of a Trying Poet
My editor sat in a bar across from a new friend a year ago. When she asked about his hobbies, he rattled off a few and added, “...and I...
Tara Crutchfield
Feb 1, 2022


Eddie ‘Smoke’ Jackson
Fourth-grade teacher and Fire Light Reggae frontman Eddie ‘Smoke’ Jackson uses music to make a positive change in his classroom and...
Tara Crutchfield
Feb 1, 2022


Gospel Village
For ten years, Lakeland nonprofit Gospel Inc. has provided resources, fostered community, and helped find purposeful employment for...
Tara Crutchfield
Jan 1, 2022


10th Annual Polk Emerging Leaders Awards
The 10th Annual Polk Emerging Leaders Awards were held on August 19th. While the event itself was a little different this year following...
Brianna Price
Sep 30, 2021


Happy Birthday, Rec Room!
You know it, you love it, you’ve probably played a game of drunk Mario Kart there – Rec Room turns one this Halloween! The product of...
Tara Crutchfield
Sep 30, 2021


Amada Anderson
History and haunts are at the center of Winter Haven Food Tours’ newest tour option, Winter Haven Beer, Spirits, and Ghosts Walking Tour....
Tara Crutchfield
Sep 30, 2021


There’s a New Burger Sheriff in Town
Today, in the culmination of three friends’ backyard barbecue epiphany five years earlier, I sat inside Adler’s new Winter Haven burger...
Tara Crutchfield
Sep 30, 2021


Goodnight Lakeland
“Goodnight, Mister Fish and Polk Museum of Art, too. Goodnight, Library. See you at storytime soon.” – Goodnight Lakeland By Ida Mundell...
Tara Crutchfield
Sep 30, 2021


Seaplane Capital of the World
“It’s magical,” said 25-year-old seaplane pilot Abbie Kellett. “You’ll see – it’s just amazing.” Some 500 feet below the yellow airframe...
Tara Crutchfield
Jul 31, 2021


Let’s Play Shuffleboard!
It’s a little humid but not too bad for a summer morning in Florida. The hum of player chatter is interrupted by the clack of one disk...
Tara Crutchfield
Jul 31, 2021


Daniel Pepin
Born in Bellingham, Massachusetts, an hour outside of Boston, into a family from the French-speaking part of Quebec, Daniel Pepin has an...
Tara Crutchfield
Jun 30, 2021


Trishelle Michaels
Apart from the work they put into performing, drag queens have historically been champions of change for the LGBTQ+ community. Queens...
Tara Crutchfield
May 31, 2021


Bonnet Springs Park
Lakeland’s newest recreational respite, Bonnet Springs Park, is slated to open in 2022. Only a 10-minute walk from Munn Park, Bonnet...
Tara Crutchfield
Apr 30, 2021


Queen’s Lemonade Palace
Royalty since birth, ‘Queen’ Michaelah Williams graces others with her positive presence and tasty lemonade. According to her mother,...
Tara Crutchfield
Apr 30, 2021


Welcome to Auburndale?
Winter Haven Water Tower Gets a New Look Relations between Winter Haven and Auburndale have sprung a leak over a new design on the...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2021


Python Problem Reaches Pitch
It appears a hush-hush python problem is reaching a fever pitch around the outskirts of Polk County and rapidly slithering inward. The...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2021


Chicken Noir
On February 22, the Winter Haven City Commission voted unanimously to pass ordinance 0-21-06. The ordinance allowed chickens as an...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2021


Scifo on Sushi, Soccer, and Shampoo
If you’ve ever savored the sashimi at downtown Winter Haven’s Tsunami Sushi or gotten a trim at Haircut Naturally, you probably know...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 1, 2021


Skinny McGee & his Mayhem Makers
Winter Haven’s Shawn Gravitt, aka Skinny McGee, spent his time during quarantine exchanging lyrics between pen and paper, completing...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 1, 2021


Dr. Vincent Miller
A world-traveled performer, accomplished educator, and leader promoting community growth and diversity, Dr. Vincent Miller brings his...
Tara Crutchfield
Feb 1, 2021

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