Event Name: Camp READY! Bartow
Event Type(s): Member Event
Description: The Learning Resource Center's Camp READY! summer program prepares rising and repeating kindergartners for academic success over four weeks. Through hands-on, experiential learning centers, students experience learning that is FUN! With...
Polk County School Board Press Release
Polk County Public Schools officials on Tuesday broke ground for a major renovation to Bartow High School.
The school district will be adding a new, two-story building and Construction Academy, as well as renovating and...
PCSO Press Release
The East bound lanes of Highway 60 East of Bartow are now open. Traffic is flowing through the area in both directions, though please use caution. PCSO investigated a fatal crash (single vehicle, 1 fatality) on Highway...
A mother and her 3-year-old son were killed as a result from a crash Monday, April 23, 2018, at about 11:47 p.m., when their car - a 1999 silver Toyota Corolla - went off the roadway and slammed into...
Unpredictable, Unplanned Fun At Bartow St. Patrick's Day Un-Parade
by James Coulter
Downtown Bartow came alive with the luck of the Irish as plenty of laddies and lassies celebrated St. Patrick's Day early with the annual St. Patrick's Day Un-Parade and...
PCSO Release:
On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, PCSO deputies responded to a call indicating a package labeled "C-4 explosive" was found in a home located on State Road 60 in Bartow. Detectives executed a search warrant at this home, and...
West Virginia Man Arrested on Polk Warrant for Grand Theft of Corvette from Kelley Buick GMC
On March 13, 2018, Mercer County (WV) deputies arrested 31-year-old Jake Ernest Boswell, Jr., on a Polk County Warrant for grand theft (F-3), obtaining a vehicle...
On February 18, 2019 at 7:28 am, officers responded to the intersection of E Church St and S Broadway Avenue in reference to a traffic crash involving a vehicle versus pedestrian.
The vehicle involved was a 2002 GMC pickup truck driven by...
Local Couples Wed At 5th Annual Valentine’s Day Group Wedding
by James Coulter
When Jason and Lucia Pendleton first met six years ago, their meeting was total coincidence.
"We met, we started talking, and one thing led to another and we are...
Bartow Police Department Press Release
On 02/05/2018, officers with the Bartow Police Department responded to 295 US 17 South regarding a reported personal Armed Robbery. The victim, 64 year old Calvin Garrison of Bartow, reported that he and an...
