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Category: Neighborhoods

Posted inDowntown, Neighborhoods

‘Mecca of Cool’ Fades to Quaint, Charming, Genteel

by Barry Friedman February 23, 2015August 9, 2022

Detroit Free Press travel writer Ellen Creager invented a motto for downtown Lakeland when she wrote about our city as a “small mecca of cool” as the 2004 Spring Training season approached. Creager yesterday gave Free Press readers another of her regular Lakeland travelogues. There’s still praise, but it seems tempered.

Posted inNeighborhoods, Public Safety

City Commission Refocuses on Crimes by Homeless People

by Barry Friedman February 17, 2015August 9, 2022

The frustrations of an elderly woman who feels confined to her house by neighborhood crime has sparked new attention to homeless people by city officials.

Posted inNeighborhoods

WFLA: Damage to 80-Year-Old Tree Upsets Residents After Tudor House Move

by Barry Friedman February 6, 2015August 9, 2022

WFLA’s Holly Bounds talk with residents of Patten Heights Street who were upset when large parts of an 80-year-old Oak were cut to make room for the moving of a Tudor house in September. A lawyer for the man who moved the house said they offered to replace the tree and more, but the homeowner wasn’t […]

Posted inNeighborhoods, Scenes

YLakeland Video: Sign of the Times

by Barry Friedman January 13, 2015October 31, 2022

YLakeland Vimeo Check out this video from YLakeland.

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