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december 31
- Another Viewpoint: Celebrate Florida's natural lands on a First Day hike
- Thomas: Try a little tenderness in 2018
- Editorial: Reflections on 2017, with an eye toward 2018
- Tyree: Was Pentagon alone in hunting UFOs?
- Anderson: Here's to a better outlook in 2018 - or not
- Buchanan: Did the FBI conspire to stop Trump?
- Letter: Give retirees what they deserve
- How to get rid of some ads on a free game
- New Year’s Day traditions
- Top of the staff
- Find help with your resolutions at your local library
- Entertainment calendar
- Just for kids calendar
- Blessed are the days of retirement
- Education news
- Man shoots, kills nephew, injures niece before killing self in Polk City
- Weekly offerings
- Man charged with stabbing friend over Uber fee
- Lake Helen man thrown from car, killed
- Largo woman dies after crashing motorcycle into truck
- Bradenton Beach police officer shoots man with hatchet
- Police: Highway shut down after shootings; 5 wounded
- Family fears no one searching for surfer missing since 2016
- Coastal waters threaten Florida's historic resources
- Protests in Iran fanned by exiled journalist, messaging app
- Iran protests go on as social media apps blocked, 2 killed
- Auburn, past 'sad' SEC loss, faces UCF in Peach Bowl
- Ohio's move to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to court
- Pope Francis laments wars, injustices that 'ruined' 2017
- Michigan, South Carolina eye 9 wins, solid finish in Outback
- Trump offers New Year's Eve message
- Thousands gather in cold ahead of Times Square's 2018 party
- Hornibrook's 4 TDs carry Badgers over Miami in Orange Bowl
- No. 14 Notre Dame, No. 16 LSU to grind it out in Citrus Bowl
- Your good news
- On the agenda for meetings in Polk County this week
- Polk's political calendar
- Holiday closings in Polk County
- Brag on your Publix sub
- Auditions open for 'The Old Settler'
- Clog causes sewage to spill from manhole
- 8,800 pets euthanized, thousands others rescued in Polk County in 2017
- Report cites heat in nursing home after Irma
- Polk's big city with big plans for 2018
- 5 Colorado deputies shot, 1 fatally, in 'ambush' attack
- Local politicians shy away from New Year resolutions
- Norm Small: story teller and teacher