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County Manager Bill Beasley told commissioners Friday that the county has reached an agreement with one of its contracted trash haulers, FCC Environmental, to amend its contract. In the next 60 to ...
The Florida Department of Transportation issues first draft of map showing areas to avoid for Polk-to-Collier toll road known as the Southwest-Central Florida Connector.
Polk County Government officials have issued an evacuation order at Green River Cove Road address from 1091-1528 and all of Lady Slipper Trail - saying residents need to evacuate immediately.
LAKELAND — The thrum of gas-powered generators and the whine of chainsaws provided the soundtrack Saturday as Polk County continued to recover from its first hurricane encounter in five years ...
So he dedicated 120 acres of land because he wanted this area to be the center of government. So what happened is we built a courthouse, one of his requests was one school and two churches ...
See above. The Lakeland Ledger LiNC: (863) 291-4444 (Weather update: Code 1200; tropical weather update: Cose 1210) National Weather Service (Ruskin): (863) 645-2323 ...
Oregon state, county, city, college and school district employees are paid with taxpayer funds. And employee salaries are typically the largest expense for a government agency. But the state has ...
Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Polk County, an area which ...
The map was prepared by the state's nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency under a new law intended to decrease county supervisors' influence in the once-every-10-years redistricting process.
Polk County supervisors approved a redistricting map Wednesday that has the potential to drastically change the makeup of the board, with four of the five incumbents now sharing districts that ...
POLK Co., NC (WSPA) – Officials in Polk Co. are recommending that people evacuate ahead of more rain on Tuesday in already identified areas. They say the National Weather Service is predicting 2 ...