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Tag: Confederate memorial

Posted inDowntown

City Leaders Want Public Feedback on Munn Park’s Center

by Kimberly C. Moore December 23, 2022January 12, 2023

The focal point has been a blank canvas since removal of the controversial Confederate statue in 2019.

Posted inNews Roundup

Read It in the Morning Paper: Unemployment, Monument, Strader

by Barry Friedman October 23, 2021December 24, 2022

UNEMPLOYMENT in Polk dropped to 5% in September from 5.6% the previous month and 7.8% last September. Florida’s unemployment rate is 4.9%, and the national rate is 4.8% | Detailed Florida numbers MONUMENT: After failing to persuade federal district and appeals courts that the city of Lakeland erred in relocating a Confederate monument from the […]

Posted inHistory

Confederate Monument Move Appeal Heard by Federal Judges

by Barry Friedman April 24, 2020December 24, 2022

Lakeland’s Confederate monument was moved from Munn Park to Veterans Park more than a year ago, but the legal battle over the move is still being fought in federal court. Organizations that opposed the move went to court last year to have the 110-year-old monument returned on free-speech grounds; a federal judge dismissed the case, […]

Posted inCity Hall

Monument Move Came in $40k Under Budget

by Barry Friedman April 28, 2019December 24, 2022

The city of Lakeland tallied the cost of moving the Confederate monument from Munn Park to Veterans Park at about $185,000, which was about $40,000 less than anticipated. The largest part went to the Tampa moving contractor, whose $165k payment was $15k higher than the original estimate because they ended up engineering and constructing a […]

Posted inDowntown

Surprises Greeted Munn Park Monument Workers

by Barry Friedman March 29, 2019August 9, 2022

Workers in Munn Park got two surprises as they removed the Confederate monument that’s being reconstructed in Veterans Park: It wasn’t held together nearly as well as they thought it would be. “They were surprised that with hurricanes (during the last 109 years), the monument made it through,” City Manager Tony Delgado said. A 34-year-old […]

Posted inDowntown

Monument Move Update: Scaffold Goes Up Next Week

by Barry Friedman March 16, 2019August 9, 2022

Scaffolding will go up around the Confederate Monument in Munn Park the middle of next week as city workers continue preparations to move it to Veterans Park, City Manager Tony Delgado told commissioners Friday.

Posted inCity Hall

City Commission: Resume Confederate Monument Move

by Barry Friedman February 4, 2019August 9, 2022

With a federal court challenge behind them, the Lakeland City Commission today directed City Manager Tony Delgado to proceed with plans to move a 109-year-old Confederate monument from the center of Munn Park downtown to its new home, a gentle slope overlooking Veterans Park and Lake Beulah.

Posted inCity Hall

Breaking News: Confederate Monument Lawsuit Dismissed

by Chuck Welch January 29, 2019August 9, 2022

The suit trying to stop the moving of the Confederate statue has been dismissed. The United States District Court has dismissed the lawsuit with an 18-page report reprinted below. Previous LkldNow coverage of the lawsuit. LkldNow will have a report on the story later today.

Posted inCity Hall

Lawsuit Slows Planning to Move Confederate Monument

by Barry Friedman January 18, 2019August 9, 2022

A lawsuit is slowing, but not halting, preparations to move Lakeland’s Confederate monument from Munn Park to Veterans Park, City Attorney Tim McCausland told city commissioners this morning. 

Posted inDowntown

Southern Heritage Group Sues to Halt Monument Move

by Barry Friedman November 20, 2018August 9, 2022

Save Southern Heritage, an organization that has been a vocal advocate for keeping the Confederate monument in Munn Park, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to keep the city of Lakeland from moving the 108-year-old memorial to Veterans Park.

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