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The Ledger
March 1, 2018
MULBERRY – Mulberry High School students set aside studies Wednesday morning to peacefully protest what they perceive as inadequate safety measures on campus. Moved by the Feb. 14 massacre in Parkland, close to 200 Mulberry High students held a 15-minute demonstration just outside theÃâà...
The Ledger
February 28, 2018
TECO serves 83,500 customers in Auburndale, Eagle Lake, Lake Alfred, Mulberry, Polk City and Winter Haven. Payne Creek is part of a plan to build 10 solar generating facilities in West Central Florida by Jan. 1, 2021, Jacobs said. The 10 facilities would use 6 million solar panels generating 600Ãâà...
The Ledger
February 16, 2018
MULBERRY — A Plant City motorcyclist was killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash on west State Road 60 in Mulberry, causing traffic to be diverted for about four hours. The Polk County Sheriff's Office reported Thursday that Terrance Slater, 43, of Plant City, was driving a 1996 Kawasaki motorcycle westÃâà...
The Ledger
February 14, 2018
In observance of Presidents Day on Monday, Polk County School District, Lake Wales Charter System schools and McKeel Academy will be closed, as will federal offices. City offices in Eagle Lake, Winter Haven, Mulberry and Fort Meade will be closed Monday, but garbage collection schedules will remainÃâà...
The Ledger
February 10, 2018
MULBERRY – Polk County could become a major provider of solar power in Florida if TECO succeeds in its plans to build three solar farms of roughly 400 acres each in the county. Standing in the way are some residents of Chicora, an unincorporated community of about 100 residences south of Mulberry,Ãâà...
The Ledger
February 10, 2018
Nathan McElwee,16, rides a mechanical bull during Founders Day outside the Mulberry Civic Center in Mulberry, FL on Saturday February 10, 2018. .... Not long after retiring as a Central Florida regional manager for the Belk Lindsey, now just Belk, department store chain, he undertook a six-year search forÃâà...
The Ledger
February 7, 2018
Despite her detective work that made the case for the Polk County Sheriff's Office's recent arrest of a Mulberry contractor on theft and fraud charges, Ruthie ... John Lee Johnson, 58, the owner of Tropic Pools of Central Florida Inc., faces felony counts of grand theft over $100,000, scheme to defraud overÃâà...
The Ledger
February 6, 2018
MULBERRY — It wasn't the best financial audit Mulberry commissioners had ever seen, but given the challenges that Hurricane Irma hurled at the city, commissioners said Tuesday night they were pleased the city fared as well as it did. “With that in mind,” said Commissioner Rick Stradtman, “we areÃâà...
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