Bartow News

In the City of Bartow, you are required to register your alarm with the police department by order of Municipal Code.

Bartow, Florida- Last Thursday, Polk Sheriff Grady Judd announced the arrest of 59-year-old middle school teacher Lawrence Hughes.

A computer technician for the city of Bartow is accused of selling computers from the Bartow Police Department to two area pawn shops, the Bartow Police Department reports.

PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW Nick Johnson smooths the cement filling around the poles at the playground he is building at the Pittas Complex Wednesday.

Board members of the city's mass transit district voted 5-0 Wednesday to eliminate a property tax, now levied in the Lakeland-Mulberry area, if voters support a proposed countywide 1-cent sales tax.

Bartow, Florida- Sheriff Grady Judd announced Thursday the arrest of 59-year-old Lawrence Hughes, a research instructor at Union Academy Magnet School in Bartow.

Girls Inc., the national afterschool and summer camp program for girls is coming to Bartow, starting this school year.

Though school is out, summertime in Bartow is still full of plenty of camps, classes, and activities to keep the kids entertained.

PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY "It's a blessing," says Marilyn McKnight about the care her 88-year-old mother Annie Pearl Ramsey who has dementia receives at the Lake Wales Adult Day Health Care Center that may have to close due to low enrollment.

Republican Adam Putnam was already a political veteran when he was elected Florida's agriculture commissioner in 2010.

PHOTO BY ALIDA SCHAT These students were recognized by the Crickette Club as the top female Bartow High students.

For a second day in a row, a Florida judge is weighing whether to allow certain voice experts to testify at the trial of a neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed teen.

The humiliation of John Sanders Haile was complete when Dr. William Kremper described how the Lake Placid attorney - certain that he was right and the prescribing doctors were absolutely wrong - would decide which medications he would take and which he would not.

The arrest of 17year-old Kiera Wilmot and her expulsion from Bartow High School in Florida on bomb-making charges when her science project went horribly wrong, could have been avoided if authorities had asked a few simple questions, according to the girl's mother.

PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER Signs posted across the street from the L.B. Brown house announce the Neighborhood Revitalization forum held Saturday, June 1. PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER "This is an example of what can be accomplished," said Abidas Thermidor, a student at the University of South Florida, who was conducting the Neighborhood Revitalization forum.

A Duval County Public Schools employee who was selected last week to be Polk County's superintendent has a 100-day plan that's similar to a plan Superintendent Nikolai Vitti submitted last year.

The absolute insanity surrounding public school policies these days regarding anything and everything remotely to do with violence - especially perceived violence - is nothing short of irrational hysteria.

PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER Martha Beauchamp, who will be the cook at Stay Fresh Market and Bistro, checks on a chicken meatloaf dish she has prepared by using a toothpick to see if it has finished cooking.

PHOTO PROVIDED Linda Holcomb, event coordinator for the Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce and Reggie McNeil, Interim Director for the Solid Waste Department for the City of Bartow, team up to provide A'basketsA' to newcomers to Bartow as part of the ChamberA's A'Welcome, Bartow!A' program.

The only item on the Polk County Board of Commissioners of pertinence to Bartow residents that appears on the Tuesday, June 4 Regular BOCC meeting comes under County Manager Jim Freeman's report.