Condosta, age 74, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2025, in Polk City, Florida, with her devoted husband of 52 years, Lee ...

1-minute read Florida Southern College has appointed Andrew Phillip Payne as the founding dean of its new School of Architecture, the college announced Wednesday. Payne, an experienced administrator ...

The mother of five enjoyed the flexibility as it allowed her to earn a living while being home with her children. Besides custom orders, she started selling cookies, banana bread and zucchini bread at ...

Robert Meyerowitz has been a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. He covered Central America and the Middle East, he was the cofounder and editor of the Anchorage Press in Alaska, and he taught ...

1-minute read After a day that saw thousands pass through Munn Park to attend Pride in The Park, hundreds began to gather there at the south end, along East Main Street, on Saturday just after 5 p.m.

He has served on the Lakeland Mayor’s Council for the Arts, and the boards of the Florida Dance Theatre, Arts4All Florida, the Florida Alliance for Arts Education, and the Lakeland Community Theatre.

Lake Hollingsworth Drive was closed just east of Fairmount Avenue on May 19 for emergency sewer repairs that took several days. West Lake Parker Drive was closed between Tropical Way and El Paseo from ...

The Walkers plan to open the Dixieland location on July 1. “We think we can make something very beautiful here,” Finley said. More Dixieland changes: Inklings is not the only change coming to that ...

The Florida problem — as described by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). 1 in 5 U.S. adults experiences mental illness each year. An estimated 796,000 adults in Florida didn’t get needed ...

Local Impact: First United Methodist Church is a BreakSpot Community Partner. Its program, also known as their Summer Feed program, serves 30 breakfasts and 60 lunches, Monday–Thursday to children ...

In 2019, he was named executive director and chief curator of the Polk Museum Art, the former name of the AGB. The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art Executive Director and Chief Curator Alex Rich in ...

She’s been supporting herself as a professional artist since she left the University of Florida with a Fine Arts degree in 2017, which makes her unusually successful in her field. The artists who have ...