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7-minute read What is it like to fly from Lakeland Linder International Airport on Avelo Airlines? Now that Avelo flies between Lakeland and eight other nonstop destinations, LkldNow takes a look at the customer experience for local residents. Some obvious benefits for flying out of Lakeland over Tampa or Orlando are the much shorter time […]

4-minute read At about 2 a.m. on Oct. 10, as Hurricane Milton was battering Lakeland, Nicole Ramirez looked out her living room window and up Honeytree Lane East to see water coming down the street toward her home, which sits on the south shore of Little Lake Bonny. It began pooling in the front yard. […]

10-minute read For two hours on Wednesday evening, residents who live along the shores of Lake Bonny and Little Lake Bonny told Lakeland city commissioners about rancid, sewage-infested floodwaters stagnating inside their homes for weeks, freckling walls with mold, buckling floors, and ruining irreplaceable family photos and heirlooms. Two people told commissioners about their dogs […]

1-minute read Circle B Bar Reserve is reopening Tuesday after being closed for more than a month due to damage and flooding from Hurricane Milton. Polk’s Nature Discovery Center at the nature preserve on Winter Lake Road also will reopen. However, one of the most popular trails, Alligator Alley, will remain closed for the time […]

3-minute read Avelo Airlines announced this week that it is adding Nashville as its ninth destination from Lakeland. And the city’s airport director said passenger service, now in its fifth month, is meeting the goal of 60% of passengers being tourists coming to Lakeland and 40% being locals flying out. Why it matters: Avelo’s growth […]

4-minute read Forty-four swans were collected on Lake Morton this week during the city of Lakeland’s Swan Roundup, and the veterinarian who examined them concluded they “looked good,” according to city spokesman Kevin Cook. “We did have a few treated for mites. Two will need surgery: one with a cyst on the neck and one […]

The owners of LoveBird Almost Famous Chicken have a new eatery in the works: a honky-tonk-themed, quick-serve burger restaurant and bar called Grievous Angel. It will be at 801 E. Main St., the former location of Unfiltered Lakeland and The Poor Porker. Grievous Angel will be a third Polk County restaurant for Florida Southern College […]

Republican challenger Melony Bell unseated incumbent Polk Supervisor of Elections Lori Edward on Tuesday. She had captured 54.31% of the vote with 147 out of Polk’s 172 precincts counted; early-voting ballots have also been counted, and vote-by-mail results are expected to come in last. Bell told supporters gathered at her Fort Meade home that Edwards […]

3-minute read It was largely smooth sailing at polling sites around Lakeland on Tuesday. Most precincts had small groups of voters lined up when they opened at 7 a.m., but wait times were short. Poll workers said about 50 people were waiting for the doors to open at Precinct 217 in the Lake Mirror Center, […]

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