may 6
- Prep baseball: Hartley leads Lakeland Christian to district championship
- Bowstring hemp
- Mitch Albom, best-selling author, will help raise money for Polk hospice
- Parents of former girls academy resident allege negligence in her death
- Coca-Cola facility in Auburndale to add jobs, gets tax exemption
- U.S. Supreme Court opinion on abortion provokes anger, optimism in Polk
- Hooray for Haworthias
- Know your onions
- Baseball: George Jenkins turns back Bartow to capture 6A-10 title
- Local garden seminars
- Softball: Lake Wales, Frostproof grab district titles; Auburndale, Lake Region fall
- Softball: Oxley pitches Bartow over Winter Haven in 6A-10 title game
- Today's editorial cartoon: (May 6 2022)
- South, Anstadt, Legendre pick up silver at 2A-2 region track meet
- Baseball: Santa Fe Catholic, Fort Meade, McKeel grab district titles
- Up Up And Away Florida Hot Air Balloon Festival
- Photos: Polk County's 34th annual Peace Officer Memorial service
- Christopher Broadhead, deputy who died of COVID, enshrined on memorial wall
- The time to apply for permits for the alligator harvest program is now
- Up Up and Away balloon festival gets off the ground in Lakeland
- Haines City fails to fire city manager