Frostproof News

When hauling their large ATV-type vehicles used in grove work, Edward Parker and his employees purposely leave the loading ramps at the work sites to thwart would-be thieves.

According to the Polk County Tax Appraiser's Office preliminary tax roll estimates released July 1, Frostproof is the only city in the county with a taxable value that increased since last year.

Sun Coast Media Group Inc. has gone dark when it comes to digital prepress. The company, which publishes a number of newspapers in south Florida, last June tapped Kodak to install a Trendsetter News 150, associated Newsmanager and Prinergy Evo workflow and Staccato screening software to anchor its migration to computer-to-plate, said Richard ...

Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 4:47 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. You can easily order books and other materials for delivery to your library, or to your home via Books-By-Mail. Visit the online catalog via your hometown library Web site or visit www.pclc.lib.fl.us and click on the catalog tab.

Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 11:31 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 11:31 p.m. BARTOW William Taft was in the White House, the country had only 47 states and no one had heard of refrigeration or telephones in June 1909, when Polk County residents threw a little party in Bartow.

Given all the competing economic interests among the major segments of Florida citrus -- growers, juice processors and fresh fruit packinghouses, plus divisions between large and small operators -- it is not surprising that the industry often operates like a dysfunctional family.

Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 5:19 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 5:19 p.m. FROSTPROOF Polk County sheriff's deputies are looking for the suspect in an attempted kidnapping.

Published: Monday, June 22, 2009 at 4:52 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 22, 2009 at 4:52 p.m. I spent some time browsing the Gale Group databases, provided to all Floridians by the State Library in Tallahassee.

Frostproof, Florida has been good to the Tennessee football program on more than one occasion in the past.

Published: Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 11:46 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 11:46 p.m. FROSTPROOF Gloom and doom was predicted for this Southeast Polk County city of 3,000 two years ago when Frostproof's largest employer announced that it was closing.

History comes alive in "Crackers of the Scrub," the book that relates adventures and stories about Florida Cracker cowboys with featured history of Polk County.

Police responded to the local Wendy's restaurant Wednesday after an employee found a 76-year-old man dead in his vehicle in the parking lot.

A 23-year-old Frostproof man was arrested Wednesday and charged with pointing a gun at one man and hitting another man with his truck stemming from an argument over a woman.

We are in the Lakeland Ledger newsroom, around 1974. In the Sports department. I'm a freshman in college, tallying prep basketball statistics.

The city of Frostproof is the only taxing authority in Polk County to show an increase in taxable property value this fiscal year, according to data released Friday by the Polk County Property Appraiser's Office.

The Polk County Sheriffa s Office needs your help identifying the man who allegedly robbed the Little Dixie #3 Convenience Store in Frostproof on May 5. Deputies said the man entered the store and stole cigars and cigarettes.

Published: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. FROSTPROOF A man and a woman were left in critical condition early Wednesday morning after their car ran into a train in Frostproof.

Officials in central Florida say two people taken to the hospital after a freight train collided with a car in Frostproof are in critical condition.

They flew over just about everybody's house in Punta Gorda, and became a fixture over downtown.

Two people are critically injured after their vehicle collided with a freight train in Frostproof early this morning, authorities say.