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📍 Bartow — Polk County, Florida

Daily Ridge provides local news coverage for Bartow, Florida, reporting on community updates, city announcements, public safety, schools, local events, and issues impacting residents. As the county seat of Polk County, Bartow coverage includes civic developments, court-related news, and stories that affect the daily lives of people who live and work in the community.

Polk County Renters Can Still Get Up To $12,000 Rent Assistance As Program Extended

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Bartow, Fla. (July 30, 2021) — Polk County’s Rental and Utilities Assistance program application deadline has been extended to Aug. 13. The Board of County Commissioners allocated $17 million for the program earlier this year and the county began taking applications...

Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation Delivers Lunch to Bartow Fire Fighters

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Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation Delivers Lunch to Bartow Fire Fighters by James Coulter Mike Hancock and Melanie Brown Culpepper had been childhood friends since kindergarten. They knew each other's family and church family. The two of them hadn't seen each other since high...

Enjoy A Teddy Bear Picnic at Bartow Public Library on Saturday July 10

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Enjoy A Teddy Bear Picnic at Bartow Public Library on Saturday July 10 by James Coulter If you go to Bartow on Saturday, you're sure of a big surprise. If you go down to the library, you'd better go in disguise!...

Bartow Adult Concert Band Returns with Fourth of July Concert This Sunday

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Bartow Adult Concert Band Returns with Fourth of July Concert This Sunday by James Coulter What could be more patriotic on a Fourth of July than listening to John Philip Sousa's "Stars And Stripes Forever" performed by a live band? You...

One Dog Starved To Death & Two Dogs Starving Lands Bartow Woman In Jail

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On Thursday, June 24, 2021, PCSO Agricultural Crimes detectives arrested and charged 52-year-old Dashong Bonner of Bartow with two counts felony animal cruelty (F3) and one count misdemeanor animal cruelty (M1) after an investigation into the severe neglect of dogs at...

Bartow Celebrates Return of Juneteenth Celebration

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Bartow Celebrates Return of Juneteenth Celebration by James Coulter Members of the African American community in Bartow gathered together to welcome the return of their Juneteenth Celebration last weekend. Several local vendors and food trucks set up underneath the Polk Street Overpass...

Bartow, Haines City, Winter Haven Celebrating Juneteenth

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Bartow, Haines City, Winter Haven Celebrating Juneteenth by James Coulter On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, officially abolishing slavery and freeing more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. Two years later, on June 19, 1865, Union...

Man Shot & Killed During Altercation With 31 Yr Old Man Who Was Having Relationship With 17 Yr Old Daughter

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Polk County Sheriff's Office investigating murder in unincorporated Bartow; suspect arrested The Polk County Sheriff's Office is conducting a homicide investigation in the area of Transport Road and Spruce Road in unincorporated Bartow. Deputies responded to that area Friday morning,...

Father/Son Duo Succeed in Local Restaurant Biz

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Local Firehouse Subs franchisee Bobby Sahgal owns both restaurants in Bartow and Winter Haven alongside his son Abhay, who serves as the General Manager. The father and son duo have just as a strong working and personal bond outside of...

Two Arrested And At Least Two More Suspects At Large Suspected In the Homicide of Taigur Taguri

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PCSO Homicide detectives have arrested two 16-year-old suspects in the homicide of 17-year-old Taigur Taguri – both suspects have been charged with first degree murder, along with other felonies. At least two other suspects are still at large. Based upon interviews with witnesses, suspects, and...
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