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City Commissioner Keith Thompson issued a strident call for building owners to join the city's efforts to incentivize new businesses in downtown Lake Wales. "We've got 22 vacancies in downtown Lake Wales," Thompson pointed out. "There's no reason we can't fill those up, if we will get creative together. It's also going to have to be on the building owner's part" through lease deals, he said. "I don't see that kind of thing happening right now, and that's what I'm asking our...
Childhood vaccination rates have markedly declined across the U.S. since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new Johns Hopkins University study that shows that Polk is among the 78% of more than 2,000 counties reporting drops. The average immunization rate has fallen to 91% — below the 95% threshold needed for herd immunity. While existing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data has historically shown broadly declining measles-mumps-rubella vaccination r...
A new three-year collective bargaining agreement between the Polk County Professional Firefighters I.A.F.F., Local 3531 and the Polk County Board of County Commissioners will allow for "significant improvements to employee compensation and scheduling," according to a statement released by the BoCC. In addition to providing fire-response and "advanced life support transport" to all residents unincorporated Polk County, the department provides fire suppression, rescue services...
Keep getting texts about unpaid tolls? Here's what to know about the new E-ZPass scam According to Robokiller, Americans received 19.2 billion spam and scam texts in April 2025 alone — that comes out to about 63 spam texts for every person. There’s only one group of people who don’t think that’s too much, and they’re called scammers. Enter their latest racket, the E-ZPass scam, a toll scam that first rose to popularity in the spring this year. Because E-ZPass is so widely us...
F1: The Movie, is a thrilling car racing drama directed by Joseph Kosinski starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris. As someone with absolutely no prior knowledge of car racing, I approached F1: The Movie with a blank slate. Yet the magnetic presence of Brad Pitt, coupled with the buzz of Tom Cruise's appearance at the premiere, made me think this was worth my attention. "F1," as I've now learned, refers to Formula 1, an elite car racing series predominantly held across Europe,...
