Highland City News

A professional storyteller, Brenda Meadows has a lot of stories, and how she met Gary Meadows, her husband of almost 40 years, is one of them.

Published: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:06 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 1:33 p.m. BARTOW Prosecutors have offered plea deals to the five teenage girls charged with the videotaped ...

Published: Monday, November 17, 2008 at 8:40 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 17, 2008 at 11:43 p.m. BARTOW About a month before her infamous videotaped beating, a former Mulberry High School cheerleader ...

Published: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 11:33 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 11:36 a.m. BARTOW Plans to add more apartments and a day care center to a planned commercial-residential ...

Published: Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 9:40 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 9:40 p.m. Florida Native Plant Society, Heartland Chapter, will meet at 6:30 p.m. Nov.

Published: Monday, November 3, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 6:20 p.m. LAKE WALES Keep Polk County Beautiful recently honored individuals and organizations at its annual awards ...

Published: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 11:30 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 11:40 p.m. LAKELAND Joseph Roberts, 2, third from left, and his sister Elizabeth, 3, second from right, with their ...

If you have a burning interest in improving local health care and a desire to learn the nuts and bolts of working with different agencies involved in the process, this event is for you.

Emotions of parents, students, and community leaders ran high at the Polk County School Board community meeting to discuss zoning for the new Spessard L. Holland Elementary School.

Lou Ella Little, 69, formerly of Richlands, died Sept. 20, 2008, at home. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

Spessard Holland Elementary proposed school zones are highlighted in pink. Some attendees of the new school will be re-zoned from surrounding Floral Avenue Elementary, Highland City Elementary, James E. ...

Published: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 3:50 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 3:50 p.m. FAMILY FUN WORKSHOP Lakeland Wild animal ceramics.

Published: Monday, August 11, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 1:20 a.m. BARTOW He might get eye rolls, snickers and a few "gimme a breaks," but Larry Madrid is certainly entitled ...

Published: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:40 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:40 p.m. BARTOW A few days before the infamous videotaped beating of a former Mulberry cheerleader, one of the teenage ...

Published: Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6:10 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6:22 a.m. LAKELAND Two years ago on a July afternoon at Barnett Family Park on Lakeland's Lake Mirror, a toddler wearing ...

Polaris Library Systems, a leading provider of library automation technology, announced today strong second quarter results for sales of the Polaris Integrated Library System.

Sometimes I am scouting when out and about. I want more moms to visit and utilize Polk Moms.

Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 4:12 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 4:16 p.m. A Bartow man was killed when he pulled his truck in front of an oncoming car early today in Highland City, ...

Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 6:19 a.m. LAKELAND United Way of Central Florida has launched a summer fundraising campaign to serve as a bellwether to ...

Authorities say firefighters are battling a 3-5 acre brush fire in a grove in Tierra Vista Circle in Highland City.