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Trinity Laurino
Executive Director
LkldNow today launched our channel on Apple News. This means iPhone and Mac users have yet another way to read LkldNow’s local news reporting. This has been in the works for a long time and huge thanks to Barry Friedman, our founder and editor-at-large, for spearheading the launch.
Similarly, people who use Microsoft products can get our news on Microsoft Start, and links to our articles can be found on Google News.
We’re able to do this because as a nonprofit, part of our mission is to make the news as accessible as possible – which means publishing across multiple platforms to meet our readers where they are. In fact, I created this nifty graphic for our board of directors to map the many places our small team disseminates the news:
This publishing strategy upends the traditional business model for print news which would put up paywalls and require subscription fees in order to access the reporting. But we think everyone should have access to local news about their community.
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City Buying Land for New Fire Station in Northwest Lakeland
Fire Station 8 would be built on 2.3 acres at the corner of Sleepy Hill Road and Mall Hill Drive.
Lakeland Groups React as Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect
Voters will have the final say on Nov. 5 with a proposed amendment to put abortion rights in the state constitution.
Man, 26, Who Shot Polk County Deputies Underwent Radical Transformation
Sheriff: Lt. Chad Anderson is alive ‘by the grace of God’ after bullet lodged between heart and spinal column.
Five Points Roundabout Has Opened, Removing a Previous Bottleneck
The project will quicken the trip between Lake Beulah and George Jenkins Boulevard/Bonnet Springs Park.
Two Polk County Deputies Wounded, Gunman Killed in Shootout at NW Lakeland Park
The dead man was aligned with an extreme anti-government ideology and considered himself a “sovereign citizen.”
Sheriff Announces ‘Largest-Ever’ Seizure of Fentanyl, But Potent Drug Has Taken a Heavy Toll on Polk
474 Polk County residents have died of fentanyl overdoses in the last decade.
Five Injured When I-4 Chase Ends in a Crash
A Toyota Camry broke into multiple pieces after plowing into tractor-trailers near the Polk Parkway west exit.
CURATED LAKELAND NEWS
Leo Schofield released from prison after serving 35 years in 1987 death of his wife | News Channel 8
Lakeland metro area (Polk County) listed as a top ’emerging market’ for new homes built as rentals | Business Observer
Brian Haas gets a third term as state attorney; nobody else filed to run | The Ledger
New technology will remove harmful algae from Lake Bonnet for conversion to fertilizer or biofuel | Fox 13 News
City of Lakeland studying the costs, benefits and odor impacts of turning human waste into fertilizer | 10 Tampa Bay
Group recommending changes to Lakeland’s city charter will not pursue single-member commission districts | The Ledger
Lakeland woman loses $400,000+ in sweepstakes scam; deputies arrest one man and seek another | Fox 13 News
Tres de Mayo | Friday | 6-9 p.m. | Downtown Lakeland
Think of this month’s First Friday as Cinco de Mayo, but two days early. In addition to the usual vendors, makers, info booths, food trucks and car show, expect a DJ and dance lessons from Just Dance Academy in Munn Park. Also, adults can enjoy an adult beverage “to go” while walking around the event.
Star Wars Trilogy | Saturday | 2, 5, 8 p.m. | Polk Theatre
May the force be with you on May the Fourth. The Polk will be showing the original Star Wars trilogy – Episode IV: A New Hope at 2; Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back at 5; and Episode VI: Return of The Jedi at 8. Tickets: $5 per movie.
Orchestral Love Connections | Saturday | 7 p.m. | Branscomb Auditorium
The Lakeland Symphony Orchestra performs Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to “Oberon,” Giuseppe Ferlendis’ “Concerto for English Horn” and Leonard Bernstein’s’ Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story.” Tickets: $26 to $49
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