Category: News

Check out our other free newsletters Barry Friedman Founder & Editor-at-Large Since you are reading this newsletter, you might be interested in two other newsletters that LkldNow offers. Like this one, all of our email newsletters are free. We consider this newsletter — LkldNow This Week — to be our premier newsletter. It reviews the […]

Balancing old and new Cindy Glover Editor One of the first things I learned working with our founder Barry Friedman was to add at least 5 minutes to our ETA if we’re walking anywhere in Lakeland – and double that if it’s near one of the coffee houses he frequents. Barry is well-known and beloved […]

As we grow, a promise and a request Cindy Glover Editor Dear readers: I’m honored to be taking the helm of LkldNow’s daily news operations and profoundly grateful that Barry Friedman will still be actively involved supporting our mission and our growth. There was an inspiring post on Nextdoor a couple of weeks ago. Two […]

Introducing LkldNow’s New Editor Barry Friedman Editor & Publisher Dear readers: Ever since founding LkldNow in 2015, a personal goal of mine has been to develop the next generation of leadership so that LkldNow can continue growing and providing independent news about quality-of-life issues in Lakeland long after my eventual retirement. I am pleased to […]

Our Special Number: 7 Trinity Laurino Executive Director If you follow LkldNow on Facebook, you might have seen that LkldNow founder and publisher Barry Friedman just turned 70! This means Barry has been covering Lakeland as a journalist for over four decades, first at The Ledger where he was city editor, news editor and features […]

Losing a fine journalist and a good friend Barry Friedman Editor & Publisher Lakeland lost a fine journalist this week, and those of us who knew him lost a good friend. John Valerino had recently returned home from the hospital following a heart attack and heart surgery when he died Sunday at age 70. John […]

Thankfulness multiplied by 239 Barry Friedman Editor & Publisher Thank you to the 239 people who helped preserve community journalism in Lakeland in 2022 by donating to LkldNow. We are truly grateful. Support has grown over the years — we had just 14 donors in 2016, our first full year, and this is the second […]

Spotlight on community needs Barry Friedman Editor & Publisher In the middle of covering a horrific mass shooting in Michigan this week, publisher Alice Dreger stopped to explain to readers about how her nonprofit news organization stays focused on community needs. The staff of East Lansing Info had worked with local police two years ago […]

Picturing beautified neighborhoods Barry Friedman Editor & Publisher One of the small things we do at LkldNow to illuminate efforts to make Lakeland more livable is to publish photographs of the homes and businesses that win the city of Lakeland’s beautification awards each month.  I started taking the photos in 2015 when LkldNow was new […]