The Lake Wales News

Lake Wales Medical Center might have the healthiest drive through around. Full Story »

It sounded like ‘adjective night’ at Lake Wales Art Center Thursday evening: “Stunning, exquisite, amazing, wonderful” and, of course the mundane “absolutely beautiful” could be heard bouncing off the gallery walls as nearly 200 enthusiastic enthusiasts commented on the – yes, amazing – work of Clyde and Niki Butcher. Full Story »

Five o’clock was the hour of decision. Members of the Community Redevelopment Agency took a gigantic step Tuesday night as they unanimously moved to send out requests for proposal for the redevelopment of the city-owned Walker Building located at 315 Lincoln Ave. Full Story »

Three Warner University students were hospitalized late Thursday night when a carbon monoxide leak swept through a cafe in the girls dormitory, according to Warner’s president Dr. Gregory Hall. Full Story »

Lake Wales Medical Center might have the healthiest drive through around. Full Story »

It sounded like ‘adjective night’ at Lake Wales Art Center Thursday evening: “Stunning, exquisite, amazing, wonderful” and, of course the mundane “absolutely beautiful” could be heard bouncing off the gallery walls as nearly 200 enthusiastic enthusiasts commented on the – yes, amazing – work of Clyde and Niki Butcher. Full Story »

Five o’clock was the hour of decision. Members of the Community Redevelopment Agency took a gigantic step Tuesday night as they unanimously moved to send out requests for proposal for the redevelopment of the city-owned Walker Building located at 315 Lincoln Ave. Full Story »

Three Warner University students were hospitalized late Thursday night when a carbon monoxide leak swept through a cafe in the girls dormitory, according to Warner’s president Dr. Gregory Hall. Full Story »

Meeting number three of the citizens’ cemetery committee proved to unearth hidden tensions that lay buried amidst the group. Full Story »

A visit to Cary Lightsey’s productive beef cattle ranch is like a trip back in time, to a remote part of Central Florida, before the arrival of tourists and urban development, to an era when endangered species were not so scarce. Full Story »

Sen. Paula Dockery jumped into the governor’s race Tuesday, ending Bill McCollum’s virtually unobstructed path to the nomination backed by most Republican leaders. Full Story »

Meeting number three of the citizens’ cemetery committee proved to unearth hidden tensions that lay buried amidst the group. Full Story »

A visit to Cary Lightsey’s productive beef cattle ranch is like a trip back in time, to a remote part of Central Florida, before the arrival of tourists and urban development, to an era when endangered species were not so scarce. Full Story »

Sen. Paula Dockery jumped into the governor’s race Tuesday, ending Bill McCollum’s virtually unobstructed path to the nomination backed by most Republican leaders. Full Story »

Meeting number three of the citizens’ cemetery committee proved to unearth hidden tensions that lay buried amidst the group. Full Story »

A visit to Cary Lightsey’s productive beef cattle ranch is like a trip back in time, to a remote part of Central Florida, before the arrival of tourists and urban development, to an era when endangered species were not so scarce. Full Story »

Sen. Paula Dockery jumped into the governor’s race Tuesday, ending Bill McCollum’s virtually unobstructed path to the nomination backed by most Republican leaders. Full Story »

Officials with the Lake Wales Charter Schools System fired the second salvo in a war of words with the Polk County School District over the planned expansion of Bok Academy. Full Story »

Five hundred one is a magic little number for enrollment for charter schools. Officials with the Lake Wales Charter Schools System know the number well. So do leaders at Polk County School District. Full Story »

When two local schools discovered their swine flu vaccine shipments would be delayed, Lake Wales Medical Center stepped in to help. The hospital donated 400 H1N1 vaccine doses to Bok Academy and Roosevelt Academy, each taking 200 doses. Full Story »