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Winter Haven opened its very first hotel downtown in 100 years after the metro area saw one of the country's highest population growth rates.

Main Street Winter Haven Discusses Future Plans For Downtown Area by James Coulter Planting seeds in the present to grow trees for the future was a general theme of the Main Street Winter Haven Annual Meeting on Wednesday. Main Street Winter Haven hosted its annual meeting to discuss its accomplishments…

Winter Haven is growing, but with growth comes growing pains, and the newest one might be parking.

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Power NI have provided £1,000 in funding.

Bourbon And Blues Celebrates Second Year At Derry Down by James Coulter On December 20, 1964, a young Gram Parsons took to the stage with his band mates to perform after the doors first opened to the Derry Down. Nearly 54 years after it first opened, another local artist, Raymond…

Main Street Winter Haven Discusses Future Plans For Downtown Area by James Coulter Planting seeds in the present to grow trees for the future was a general theme of the Main Street Winter Haven Annual Meeting on Wednesday. Main Street Winter Haven hosted its annual meeting to discuss its accomplishments…

Bourbon And Blues Celebrates Second Year At Derry Down by James Coulter On December 20, 1964, a young Gram Parsons took to the stage with his band mates to perform after the doors first opened to the Derry Down. Nearly 54 years after it first opened, another local artist, Raymond…

Jake Polumbo, a Lakeland resident and retired major general in the U.S. Air Force, chats with columnist Tom Oldt about security, service and sacrifice.

I can measure my life from very early childhood by the dogs who have been my boon companions — Frisky, Pooh, Mickey, Sebastian, T-Bone, Suzy Q, Zebedee, McKinley, Lizzie Lou and Bela B. Except for the first couple Of years in college and time spent in the service, I have never been without canine friends — and can’t imagine ever being. This puts me firmly in the company of a substantial portion of the population that enjoys significant health benefits from such relationships, according t...