Haines City News

There likely won't be a lack of weather knowledge, especially when it pertains to hurricanes, during Saturday's Polk County Hurricane Expo, which is one day after the hurricane season starts.

The food was delicious and plentiful and the two buffet lines were more than enough to accommodate the many people who attended the awards ceremony.

For anyone exercising or working outdoors in Eastern Polk County on Thursday, May 24th, the dense smoke from the Haines City area brushfire could have had health-risks they might not have been aware of.A The fire, started by lightening, over two days spread over an area in excess of 900 acres.

Something smells rotten in Sarasota County. State forest sevice officials told The Bradenton Herald Friday that the rotten smoky smell is from a 980-accre muck fire in Polk County .

If you can sense that, then chances are you are smelling the smoke coming from a wildfire in Polk County, a Florida Forest Service official said Friday morning.

A large brush fire near Haines City prompted the Polk County Health Department to warn residents about potential health effects.

Florida Forest Service officials say it began Tuesday afternoon at the Catfish Creek Preserve, located off of Hatchineha Road and Fire Tower Road.

Polk County Fire Rescue is looking for vendors for the annual Polk County Hurricane Expo planned June 2 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Lake Eva Banquet Hall in Haines City.

According to reports, on May 7, the Lake Wales Police arrested Anthony J. Davis, a 31-year-old Haines City resident, for allegedly burglarizing two homes.

A man who stole a car at gunpoint has been arrested in Texas, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.

Spencerville Billy O. Eley, 85, of Haines City, Fla., formerly of Spencerville, died at 3:14 a.m., May 10, 2012, at Winterhaven Hospital in Florida.

The Florida Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds raised more than $16,000 in its annual fundraising auction Wednesday night, which took place during the half-way point of the association's 2012 Conference and Expo.

Pinellas County Head Start staffers at the summit enjoyed breakfast buffets, lunches featuring salmon with sage and chicken Marsala and afternoon snacks.

When he's done restoring the 1980 Comuta-Car he bought from the Sebring Historical Society in March, Howie Kubsch plans to drive it around the Lake Placid area, where he lives, to run errands.

PHOTO BY AL PALMER Lakeland Mayor Gow Fields spoke Monday to civic leaders at the Salvation Army's kickoff for George Jenkins Community of Hope.

The Class 7A-Region 2 baseball quarterfinal Wednesday night against Haines City was tight, just like Brandon High pitcher Chris Toney thought it would be.

Lake County 's budget is so tight that the county may start charging some people to use the Cagan Crossings Library, which is located south of Clermont.