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It is officially that time of the year. So, get out your costumes, your candy and of course, your stencils and knives to start carving those pumpkins. Polk County’s official visitor information center, Polk Outpost 27, will help visitors welcome the Fall Season this year with its fourth annual Fall Festival on Saturday, October 23 [...]

It’s more than just the buzz around the quilt or in the tea room.  It’s the 10th Annual Quilts and Tea Festival, and it’s almost here! But, we still have a month to go, so Polk Outpost 27 is showcasing a preview of the festival, next week, October 11-17, 2010. Quilts will be on display throughout the [...]

Central Florida’s Polk County has something new to offer visitors this month.  A culinary event to showcase the fine dining, unique restaurants and various cuisines that define Polk County.  So grab your appetite and discover these culinary delights during the inaugural “Savor the Flavor of Polk” dining month, October 15th through November 15th, 2010. Twelve area restaurants will [...]

Winter Haven  For the first time in years all 16 lakes on the South Winter Haven Chain are accessible. The canal from Lake Cannon to Lake Mirror is still very shallow but can be navigated. Fishing for the most part remains tough. Look for Bass to remain on Summer patterns until cooler weather arrives toward [...]

For the last few weeks, The Lakeland Center has been saying they have a big concert announcement to make and today they made it. Elton John will be coming to The Lakeland Center on November 21 with special guest Leon Russell. Tickets go on sale next Monday, September 27th at 10am and are $47.00, $87.00, [...]

With thousands of apps being added to the hugely popular Apple App Store each day, it can be difficult to find just the right one. If you are an aviation fan, or a fan of Fantasy of Flight–or just a fan of playing games on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch– then, there is an app [...]

Kissimmee Chain The bite has definitely slowed on Kissimmee. Not as many fish hanging around brushpiles as there was a month ago. Bass are mostly in shad chasing mode now and feeding mostly at night. Flip outside grasslines early, then further in as the day progresses. Also look for schoolers around mouths of trails early. [...]

The Ledger is reporting that LEGOLAND Florida has selected their contractor and design firm. Normally, this wouldn’t merit a post on our blog, but since we have had several inquiries from sub-contractors looking to do work at the new theme park, we thought it would be good to post this update as an answer to [...]

The Princeton Review has selected Lakeland’s Florida Southern College as the #9 “Most Beautiful College Campus” in the U.S. in their 2011 edition of the popular college guidebook. Florida Southern was listed right after Princeton University (#8) and ahead of the only other Florida college in the Top 20, Rollins College (#12). Surely being the largest one-site collection of Frank [...]

The pieces keep falling into place for LEGOLAND Florida as they build their team in Winter Haven and the newest piece is certainly the biggest. Adrian Jones has been named General Manager and will begin immediately. He will join the team already assembled of Sales and Marketing Manager, Kim Isemann, Public Relations Representative, Jackie Wallace and [...]