Newly listed homes for the period of February 16th through February 28th decreased to 135 Lakeland homes for sale. The average sales price of Lakeland homes listed with area Realtors® increased to $165,281 from my previous report. -- Petra Norris
Lakeland Police Department Officers are on the lookout for unbuckled drivers and passengers. Through March 15th LPD officers are on the lookout for unbuckled drivers and passengers throughout the city. During this time period, drivers and passengers will be ticketed if they are not buckled up. Here's the Florida law requiring seatbelts and the cost of the ticket is: $30 for unbuckled adults and $60 for improperly restrained children. "Safety belt use in Florida climbed to 81.7% last year, almost reaching the national average of 82%. The minority of Floridians who do not wear a seat belt continue to make up the majority of traffic fatalities in the state, according to the Florida Department of Transportation website. The 1 in 5 Floridians who did not buckle up accounted for 3 in 5 traffic fatalities." -- Lakeland Police Department
Well, let's check out the terms of Massachusetts' version of the CSX/Sunrail deal and consider the difference between a how a state governed by liberals and a state governed by conservatives deals with corporations and the public interest.
We get quite many press releases. Many are about local events, or company news, but every now and then you get one that catches your attention for one reason or another. Today the Polk Theatre will be closed; Not to prepare the stage for a new production or break down an old set. “We will spend eight hours removing drywood termites from the stage area,” said Ted Horton, the Truly Nolen Branch Manager in Lakeland. Did anyone else immediately get an image of men with mouse ears on their hands and knees picking up termites with tweezers? No? OK, then. On to the next release...
The Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce sent out a press release this afternoon. It contained a resolution calling for a Florida Department of Transportation study to determine the location of a high speed rail stop in Polk County. We'd like to give you the full text of the resolution, but you'll have to make do with the image the Chamber delivered to the press. We don't have the time right now to re-type it. Here's the introduction to the email:
While Lakeland homes inventory remains stable, newly listed homes for the period of February 1st through February 15th increased by 16.75% to 203 Lakeland homes for sale.
Lakeland Local's Interactive map and street views of homes listed for sale...
Better than chocolate in peanut butter, one of Lakeland's recent additions to the downtown business sector has teamed up with Lakeland's pre-eminent filmmakers. It's a small project, but one soon to be very visible as Smart Creative has designed the key art for Endure, the film from the creative team at Nfocus.
As we reported Friday morning from the City Commission Agenda Study, the city has released their report on Ingram Avenue:
After reading the most recent media story regarding High Speed Rail, I felt it was vitally important that I correct the appearance that I have been stating two different ideas as it relates to where Polk County’s High Speed Rail Station should be located.
When it comes to the site of a proposed high speed rail station in Polk County, we’ve heard from the Florida Department of Transportation, the City of Lakeland, the University of South Florida Polytechnic and now a landowner on the corridor. Over at Metro I4 News, is the full text of a press release from the Williams Acquisition Holding Company. Is the name unfamiliar? They’re the owners of the Williams Development of Regional Impact (DRI). That’s the largest landholder in the area around the USF Poly campus at I4 & the Polk Parkway. The Williams DRI is a plan to use the land to develop something akin to the Lakeside Village plus a research/development park, considerable housing and commercial space. The release includes some figures on the proposed plan.
Not everyone wants to watch a football game just to see a few advertisements. For those people. Lakeland Local offers you a simple way to see all of yesterday's Super Bowl ads. View them one at a time, or just click play to see all 66. Careful, there's a 14 minute Chevy Chase ad in this bunch. (Watch too many and you will get sick of hearing "The following clip is brought to you by....")
Southeastern University expects to have construction on its Longfellow Boulevard road expansion completed just in time for the National Leadership Forum March 10-12, according to Dane Slaughter, the university's facilities director.
A total of 563 properties are currently actively being marketed that are facing foreclosure. There were 69 Lakeland homes newly listed in the distressed category with average prices of $132,768 or $73.95 per square foot. -- Petra Norris
City Commissioner Justin Troller has been on the job for two years. Long enough to see the need for some changes to the biweekly City Commission Regular Meeting. At this morning’s biweekly commission regular meeting agenda study, Troller asked why the Friday studies weren’t televised. Many of the staff and some commissioners were preparing to [...]
For years, officers have trained by shooting at stationary targets. A big step was popup targets as officers moved through training buildings. Today training can be much more realistic. The Polk County Sheriff’s office spends considerable time training officers. Just before the Thanksgiving holiday the department added a tool to improve that training. Imagine a room [...]
Bio: The short line? Father, husband, writer. My online presence is primarily through as the editor, writer, and occasional photographer for the news sites, Lakeland Local, a sampling of the news, concerns, and events for Lakeland, Florida, and Metro i4 News, which covers the Interstate 4 corridor in Central Florida. Both sites feature the work of myself and other contributors. As a hobby, I manage a forum and some web sites that feature a pulp fiction series written by Lester Dent -- Doc Savage Organized, Doc Savage Info, and Flearun.