After being tipped off by a bicyclist, Lakeland Police officers apprehended a three-legged alligator along Missouri Avenue early this morning, shoved it into a police cruiser and released it into Lake Hunter. Video after the jump…
Category: Neighborhoods
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What’s Up With the Carved Panda Waving at Hollingsworth Passersby?
Source: The Ledger
Posted inNeighborhoods, Recreation
Short Seawall Planned Near Hollingsworth Parking Lot
If all goes according to plan, the City of Lakeland will be dedicating a short seawall near the Lake Hollingsworth parking lot a year from now.
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Orange Bikes: Clever Marketing or Disrespectful Litter?
Facebook | Facebook When old bikes spray-painted orange started showing up around Lakeland over the weekend, residents took notice — and many weren’t happy. Some Facebook users hailed them as clever viral marketing, but others felt the painted bikes recall — in a disrespectful way — white “ghost bikes” that memorialize bicycle fatalities.
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Dixieland Getting an Evening Farmers Market
Fans of locally grown produce in Lakeland will get to try another weekly farmers market starting next Wednesday. Dixie Twilight Market will operate from 4 p.m. until sundown Wednesdays in the parking lot behind Dixieland Village.
Posted inA & E, Neighborhoods
Dixieland Revival Getting Attention
The resurgence of small businesses in the historic Dixieland neighborhood must be ready for prime time. It’s gotten attention in the last few days from Tampa’s Fox 13 and Bay News 9.
Posted inDowntown, Neighborhoods
‘Mecca of Cool’ Fades to Quaint, Charming, Genteel
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
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.
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WFLA: Damage to 80-Year-Old Tree Upsets Residents After Tudor House Move
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 […]