Eagle Lake News

Eagle Lake city commissioners were told Monday night that the city will have to find $10,400 in an already tight 2009-10 budget to have its land-development regulations put into the city code through the Municipal Code Corporation in Tallahassee.

Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 10:14 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 10:14 p.m. EAGLE LAKE Polk County School District officials met with about 40 high school principals and counselors Tuesday to talk about how the grade replacement policy may be misapplied.

Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 12:32 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 12:32 a.m. Lake Region High and Pinewood Elementary schools in Eagle Lake were locked down for about 40 minutes Monday morning as Polk sheriff's deputies searched for a man.

Published: Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 8:12 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 8:12 p.m. LAKELAND If students can't comprehend what they read, they can't pass the FCAT to graduate.

Published: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8:56 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8:56 p.m. EAGLE LAKE Ty Garnett clutches 6-month-old Trinity close to his chest as if she were his own.

Lynn Wilson Jr. of Polk State College is the newest candidate for the District 6 seat on the Polk County School Board.

Terry Pittman, a Polk County official, announced his campaign for the Polk County School Board on Thursday.

Those planning on attending one of the numerous local holiday events this weekend may want to carry an umbrella along with them.

Outgoing Polk County Facilities Management Director Terry Pittman is running for Margaret Lofton'sA District 6 School Board seat.

Published: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 2:09 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 2:09 a.m. Haines City's Festival of Trees begins Wednesday and ends Friday, running from 8 a.m. through 8 p.m. daily in the Lake Eva Park Banquet Hall.

Published: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 9:54 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 9:54 p.m. MULBERRY A stroke of the pen was all it took to officially dissolve the embattled Mulberry Police Department on Tuesday, when city officials signed a contract for law enforcement with the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

The Bartow High School girls basketball team went on the road and returned with a 52-35 victory over Avon Park on Monday.

Four students in Polk State College art professor Gary Baker's Advanced Ceramics class have created a mosaic of the Viking, PSC's mascot.

You may be getting older, but everyone sees double at Pinewood Elementary in Eagle Lake.

It looks like Eagle Lake is going to be growing. On Monday night, Eagle Lake city commissioners unanimously passed the first reading of an ordinance that would extend the city limits by approximately 7.53 acres.

Published: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 5:16 a.m. One evening, when we had not been married very long, Bert asked me if I'd like to go frog-gigging. Having grown up in New York City, I had never encountered any little ponds or lakes where people could just go fish or gig frogs the way you ...

The spirit of Christmas returns again to Eagle Lake for the city's 16th annual Mistletoe Market Place, which will be held Dec.

A Eagle Lake teenager was killed when the car she was driving collided with another car on Dundee Road Friday night.

Several Polk high school students were honored recently at a statewide level. This fall at the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association's "Salute to Excellence" Awards held in Orlando, two students received awards.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 9:36 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 9:36 p.m. MULBERRY Mulberry voters decided Tuesday to put the future of the city's police services in the hands of the City Commission.