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Bartow, Florida is located in Polk County. Zip codes in Bartow, FL include 33831, and 33830. The median home price in Bartow is $89,900 which is roughly $46/per square foot. More Bartow information.

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Saturday | Polk County Democrat

Stewart named Teacher of the Year

PHOTO PROVIDED Jennifer Blum Stewart , formerly of Bartow, received the Educator of the Year award in ceremonies recently.

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Fri May 17, 2013

Polk County Democrat

A-C-T Hires nine in Spring Recruiting Class

PHOTO PROVIDED Leo Longworth is presented with a plaque marking his year as Bartow mayor in the last year by the new mayor for Bartow, James Clements.

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Polk County Democrat

Many spirits in Bartow and a few surprises

PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW Virginia Condello, from the Chamber of Commerce, gives Pam Renew a hug Thursday at the Spirit of Bartow ceremony as she was awarded for her dedication to the community.

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Thu May 16, 2013

The Orlando Sentinel

Kiera Wilmot's mom: Her arrest was 'traumatic,' drained family finances

The on-campus arrest of her 16-year-old daughter and the classification of her would-be science project as a "destructive device" has left Polk County mother Marie Wilmot exhausted, frustrated and eager for a return to a life of "just me and my girls," she said today.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Star-Telegram.com

No charges for teen after explosion at Fla. school

A central Florida teenager who was accused of igniting a chemical explosion on school grounds - and who became the subject of a grassroots social media campaign on her behalf - will not face criminal charges, authorities said Wednesday.

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WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg

"Bartow Bomb" student will not face criminal charges

The State Attorney's Office announced Wednesday afternoon that it will not formally charge Kiera Wilmot who was arrested last month on felonies for mixing household chemicals in a small plastic bottle outside Bartow High that then went off on school grounds.

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Miami New Times

Kiera Wilmot Is the New Trayvon Martin

In Bartow, Florida, public school and law enforcement officials are committing a horrible injustice against an exceptionally gifted African-American teenager.

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Polk County Democrat

BHS Ib: a focus of community pride

Few things make a parent prouder than to see a child or grandchild recognized as one of the top performers among his peers, be it for academics, athletics, artistic prowess, citizenship, or any of a host of other laudable achievements.

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Tue May 14, 2013

Polk County Democrat

Fifth-graders rally against drug use

PHOTO BY PEGGY KEHOE Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd spoke to area fifth graders during the Just Say No rally Tuesday morning at Bartow High School.

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Polk County Democrat

First look at the campus

PHOTO BY AL PALMER Rob Clancey, Corporate College Director shows where labs will be located at the Clear Springs campus.

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Polk County Democrat

Should the City of Bartow compete against existing private companies...

Ketrina Walker Yes because right now there's only two. Mine works fine but it's so expensive.

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Polk County Democrat

School bus driver faces many charges

Describing it as "just unbelievable conduct," "immoral," "unethical" and "improper," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd had two questions for the school bus driver who allegedly drove students from Bartow to her home in Lakeland and staged a fight between two teenage girls.

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Polk County Democrat

Bags filled with love

PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY In addition to the FPRA Fill-A-Bag campaign to collect hygiene products for homeless students, Lake Wales churches pack 110 backpacks filled with "a little something extra" to students in Lake Wales Charter Schools every Friday.

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Sat May 11, 2013

New Pittsburgh Courier Online

Judging people without context can lead to trouble

As with everything, there's good and there's bad. The good? Amazing technological advances makes information on anything literally at your fingertips.

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Jalopnik

Bus Driver Charged With Staging Fight Between Two Students

A bus driver in Bartow, Florida has been charged with false imprisonment, child abuse, and neglect after pulling over and encouraging two students to fight in her own front yard.

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Fri May 10, 2013

News 4 Jax

Cops: Bus driver staged student fight

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Polk County Democrat

Fantasy 5 winning ticket sold in Bartow

PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW Jamie Hill was inducted into the Bartow Rotary Club Wednesday.

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Polk County Democrat

School bus driver forces teens to fight

On Thursday, May 9 detectives arrested Patrice Sanders, 29, for driving her school bus to her house and have students from three Bartow schools watch a fight between a 13-year-old and 16-year-old girls, the Polk County Sheriff's Office report.

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Polk County Democrat

Grey fired from assistant superintendent post

After being called on the carpet several times in recent months, Interim School Superintendent of Schools John Stewart opted last week to give Business Services Assistant Superintendent Mark Grey the boot.

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Miami New Times

Kiera Wilmot's Failed Science Experiment Brings Out The Racism

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times.

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