Lindee Walker

Senior News Director/Copy Desk Chief

Lindee Walker is a UF journalism senior and The Alligator’s Summer 2026 co-senior news director and copy desk chief. She’s spent two semesters on the copy desk and edited for WUFT under Ted Bridis and Ethan Magoc. She love to read, sit in the grass, Insta-stalk and pet cats.

Alachua County Commissioner Marihelen Wheeler (left) talks with ownwe of Honeybee’s Doggie Cafe Donna Ruby about the future of the Waldo Sweet Potato Festival & Car Display in Waldo, Florida, on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025.

Ryan Friedenberg

Metro

Waldo’s Sweet Potato Festival revives spudtacular small-town spirit

By Lindee Walker | Sep. 16

The smell of fall drifted through Waldo City Square as families lined up for sweets, cars and games at the town’s first-ever Sweet Potato Festival and Car Show.

Solutions by The State News

Lindee Walker

Waldo’s Sweet Potato Festival revives spudtacular small-town spirit

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