For residents of Hillsborough County who are among the three million Floridians with hearing loss, help has arrived. Today, Florida Telecommunications Relay Inc., a non-profit distributor of amplified telephones for people with hearing loss and speech challenges, is offering an innovative new amplified telephone at no cost to local residents with hearing loss. To obtain […]
Continue ReadingFour people arrested in convenience store robbery
Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested four people, Wednesday, June 10, for the armed robbery of a Marathon convenience store in Lakeland. Three of the four are Plant City residents: Cedric Griffin, 27; Curtnisha Young, 19; and Ajaysia Smith, 18. Griffin, of 117 W. Warren St., is charged with robbery with a firearm, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed burglary […]
Continue ReadingFugitive arrested at truck stop
After escaping supervision, a fugitive from Kentucky was thought to have been traveling to Plant City before he was found by deputies at a truck stop and arrested. Willard Ray Hunt, 31, a CRIP gang member, has friends and family in Plant City, according to the Hillsborough County District II Street Crimes Unit. Deputies identified and […]
Continue ReadingAccident closes Trapnell Road
Trapnell Road at Sam Astin Road was closed at about 10:40 a.m. because an 18 wheeler rolled and spilled lumber onto the road. Motorists are advised to avoid the area.
Continue ReadingPam Warnock elected to Strawberry Festival board
The Florida Strawberry Festival board of directors voted last night to elect its newest member. Pam Warnock, who has served as an associate director for 14 years, was elected from a field of 15 fellow associate directors. “I feel honored I was chosen out of a group of people who are all very well qualified,” […]
Continue ReadingRibbon Cutting: Milner Technologies
The Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Milner Technologies Inc. June 9, at the Plant City Chamber of Commerce. Milner Technologies is expert at designing and implementing complete business solutions to improve the way large and small enterprises operate. It can recommend and supply best-in-brand multifunctional printers, scanners, and other document […]
Continue ReadingPCPD officers honored
The Plant City Optimist Club held its annual Respect for Law dinner at the Plant City Police Department in May. At the dinner the 2015 Officers of the Year, James Burchett and Jeffrey Hilsman, were honored. Both officers saved a mother in her children from a burning Plant City home last November. The mother’s boyfriend […]
Continue ReadingGrant to be used for PCPD equipment
Money from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program will go to buy the Plant City Police Department technological equipment for use in patrol cars. The city received $11,627. PCPD has asked the grant be used to purchase 18 in-car printers for marked patrol units and 18 accessory bundles, such as a lighter plug, […]
Continue ReadingBid selected for water main project
Eight bids were received for the construction of a water main on Henderson Way. Central Concrete Products Inc. had the lowest bid at $196,900. The proposed water main will connect the water main at Henderson Way to another water main installed west of Coronet Pit Road. Eliminating the dead end of the Henderson Way water […]
Continue ReadingDepot workers warn about rail safety
With the end of spring comes prom, senior portraits, and summer wedding and engagement photographs. The volunteers at the Robert Willaford Train Museum in Historic Downtown Plant City are cautioning those who are scouting train tracks as a photoshoot location to change their minds in the name of rail safety. The train tracks that snake downtown are the […]
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