Youth Basketball Coaches Needed

The Parks and Recreation Department needs your help to coach recreational and competitive youth basketball this season! 

The commitment for recreational coaches is one practice and one game per week. Each recreational coach will get a 50% discount...

City Manager's Update - September 26, 2023

Greetings Lakeland!

I had some catching up to do with information pertaining to both last week's and the previous week's information and news. This week is back to the regularly scheduled content - keep reading below for a recap of last w...

Recreational and Competitive Youth Basketball

Recreational and Competitive Youth Basketball registration is now open. For details and to register, please visit https://secure.rec1.com/TN/lakeland-tn/catalog

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2023 Lakeland Harvest Festival

The 2023 Lakeland Harvest Festival will be held on Saturday, October 21st, at IH Park (4523 Canada Road) from 3pm to 5pm and is proudly sponsored by Lakeland Lions Club. We expect this year's event to be more exciting than ever! In addition to lo...

Become a Community Sponsor!

The City of Lakeland Parks and Recreation Department plans a variety of events for its residents throughout the year. As a team, we strive to make every event as fun and exciting as we can for guests of all ages.

Thank you for your interest in joining as a...

"In Lieu of Flowers" - Remembering Debra Murrell

In Lieu of Flowers

Remembering Debra Murrell

January 25, 1959 - September 9, 2023

If you've routinely been following along on the lakelandtn.gov/news page these past few months, you'll know that every Monday (sometimes Tuesday) I put out a weekly update on C...

City Manager's Update - September 18, 2023

Greetings Lakeland!

As some of you may have noticed, there was no official City Manager's Update last week. Instead, I chose to use the space to remember Debra Murrell, our Community Development Specialist. Debra dedicated 25 years to the City of Lakeland ...

City Manager's Update - September 5, 2023

Good Morning Lakeland!

With yesterday's holiday and a shorter work week this week, I believe we're all due for a shorter lead-in to this week's CMU as well. So let's take...

A Look Back at Last Week

Public Meetings

There we...