Kathleen News

BARTOW The head of high schools in the Polk County School District heard appeals Friday of three Bartow High School employees punished for their roles in discovering an ineligible football player at Kathleen High School in October.

Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:29 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:29 p.m. Celling Out Want to know where AT&T is boosting cell phone coverage in Polk County? There's a map for that - or this Insider, at least.

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.

Kathleen Guerrero, a seventh-grader at Lakeland Highlands Middle School in Lakeland, is the middle school winner in The Ledger's Student Editorial Writing Contest.

Published: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 7:34 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 7:34 p.m. CREATIVE REFINISHING has been named the Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Month for November.

Published: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 3:02 a.m. LAKELAND A 55-year-old Lakeland man who was stabbed more than 40 times last month has been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, friends and family say.

Polk County Survey Technician Employee Michael E. Gay , left received a plaque in recognition for his act of bravery rescuing the driver of a burning vehicle , from County Manager Mike Herr , center and County Commissioner Bob English , right during a county commission meeting in Bartow Fl.., Tuesday December 1, 2009.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 1:37 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 3:11 p.m. Two Bartow High School employees were officially reprimanded and another was verbally warned for their roles in discovering an ineligible football player at Kathleen HIgh School last month, but the controversy appears to be far from over.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 2:22 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 3:08 a.m. LAKELAND A Davenport woman who was rescued from a burning car last week continues to heal from her wounds, but she still needs help.

Not enough money. Not enough progress. Florida is violating the state Constitution by not pouring enough money into schools and relentlessly focusing on high-stakes testing policies that aren't getting good results, says a lawsuit expected to be filed Wednesday in Leon County Circuit Court in Tallahassee.

But her life was almost cut short on Wednesday night. Polk County Sheriff's Deputies say Oates ran off the road slamming her car into an oak tree which burst into flames.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 9:56 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 10:11 p.m. LAKELAND The Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce recently received five-star accreditation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

One thing is for sure in this St. Petersburg's Mayor's race: the last name of the next mayor will feature "FO" as the first letters.

Kathleen High School continues to await word from the Florida High School Athletic Association on its appeal of two of the six football games it was ordered to forfeit.

Published: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 12:45 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 12:45 a.m. Kathleen High School plans to appeal to the FHSAA to restore two of its six forfeited games.

Lakeland's Kathleen High School, which was 8-0, must forfeit six football games after allowing an ineligible player to participate.

Published: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:54 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:54 p.m. LAKELAND Arthur "Art" J. Michaud's employees don't expect Sunday's plane crash to keep him down.

The Polk County School District, in cooperation with the Polk County Health Department, will begin vaccinating students in select schools starting October 27.

A third person also died when the small plane going from Gainesville to Lakeland went down.

A small plane has crashed in a remote part of eastern Pasco County, killing 3 people.