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Nate Schaller
Mar 31, 2022
The Patron Saint of Justice
“The Patron Saint of Justice,” a new mural by the internationally renowned Icelandic artist Lokey Prakkarastrik, featuring Polk County’s...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2022
Godzilla Vs. Mothra
Swans? More like yawns. Zebra Longwing Butterfly? But why? It’s official. Lakeland and Winter Haven have new city symbols. After...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2022
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, 2020
Honeycomb BakerTurns Winter Haven Food Scene ‘Inside Out’
Bread has been at the center of everything for Honeycomb Bread Bakers founder, Benjamin Vickers. In an interview with LKLD Haven last...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2020
A County Divided?
Lakeland and Winter Haven are Polk County’s two most populated cities. For almost as long as the two cities have existed (Lakeland was...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2020
Will America Dantz Like Nobody’s Watching?
Winter Haven mayor, Brad Dantzler has announced his bid as an Independent nominee in the 2020 American presidential election. Will...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2020
LEGOLAND in for some Mega Competition
What will the former K-Mart building on Cypress Gardens be? Target, Ulta, and Trader Joes are only a few of the suggestions tossed out by...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2020
Big Boats, Small Oranges
Central Florida has always been a regional nucleus for agriculture. Orange groves and strawberry fields seem to go on forever and the...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2020
Chain of Lakes May Be Link in the Cosmic Chain
In 2011, NASA ended its almost 40-year-old space shuttle program. Economic rough waters, significant maintenance, and the fact that the...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2020
HAVEN in the Pocket of Your Pants
Cynics have long pushed the idea that the future of content is entirely electronic – that books, newspapers, magazines are soon to go the...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 31, 2020
Unknown Beast Spotted in Lake Eloise
Lake monsters and giant sea serpents have been the stuff of folklore and nightmares for centuries. Something about the murky depth of a...
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