LAKELAND | A downtown business owner and five accomplices added a pop of color to Lakeland’s downtown on Wednesday night. Paint Along Studios owner Dave Collins and the five others painted shrink-wrapped city-owned lampposts on a stretch of Kentucky Avenue in abstract designs of pastel without permission from the city. The plan to make downtown…
TAMPA — A plan to spur riverfront development on a prime 12-acre site in West Tampa moved ahead Thursday when the Tampa City Council unanimously voted to buy two pieces of property several miles away to relocate utility trucks. The trucks have been kept at 2609 N Rome Ave., two blocks south of W Columbus…
Music, food, a good old-fashioned trolley pull, fireworks and the promise of two days of family fun fill an early kickoff to America’s Independence Day celebration at the annual Friendly Kia Fest Main Street Blast today and Saturday at Sims Park downtown. The event, traditionally held the last weekend of June so volunteers can enjoy…
