Well, it’s official: Plant City loves NRG and Rascal Flatts! We were overwhelmed with entries for this contest — and all had great suggestions and stories behind them. In the end, Chelsea Talavera’s entry stood out just a little from the rest: I would love to hear NRG perform “Stand” by Rascal Flatts. I believe […]
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Visions Golf files rezone request for golf course
Visions Golf LLC, owner of Walden Lake Golf & Country Club, filed last week its request for a rezone part of the community’s two golf courses for residential development. Filed Feb. 19 at Plant City Hall, the request, titled the Villages of Walden Lake Polo and Country Club, offers some details regarding Visions Golf’s plan […]
Continue ReadingCommission endorses concept for Village Green
In a unanimous vote, the Plant City Commission established Feb. 24 the visual identity of the Midtown project. With a 4-0 vote (Vice Mayor Rick Lott was absent), the commission endorsed a design concept for the Village Green park, which will become the centerpiece of the redevelopment project just south of downtown. The park, which […]
Continue ReadingOBSERVED: Memories made at Daddy-Daughter Dance
I have been to my share of daddy-daughter dances — as a photographer. Most were awkward affairs, with the girls twirling in the middle of the dance floor, while their dads propped themselves up against the wall or sat in chairs across the room. Even before we had kids, I told my wife: “When we […]
Continue ReadingAnnual parades celebrate festival season
Plant City will celebrate the beginning of the 2014 Florida Strawberry Festival with not one but two parades. The Plant City Civitan Club’s Annual Youth Parade will take to the streets at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 1, at the Plant City State Farmers’ Market, 1305 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Two days later, the […]
Continue ReadingWINNER: Kiersten Denny
Kiersten Denny, 17, a senior at Strawberry Crest High School, took the images in this photo illustration in her back yard in Plant City. “I merged two photographs using Photoshop CS5 to make myself a miniature, inspired by my local landscape and a surreal Alice in Wonderland idea,” she says. She calls […]
Continue ReadingObituary: Rosa Laura Bronson
Rosa Laura Bronson, 73, died of respiratory failure Feb. 17, 2014, in Lake Wales. Mrs. Bronson was born Dec. 17, 1940, in Graceville. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert E. Bronson; parents, Connie and Audrey Givens; brother, Kirk Givens; and three sisters, Martha Jean Furney, Mary Ann Pettys and […]
Continue ReadingObituary: Yvonne Gay Gibbons
Yvonne Gay Gibbons, 74, of Plant City, died Feb. 21, 2014, at South Florida Baptist Hospital, in Plant City. Born Nov. 17, 1939, in Inghan County, Mich., she was the daughter of the late Emil and Ruth Tuttle Harlacher. She was the wife for 12 years of Thom Gibbons, who survives. Mrs. Gibbons was a […]
Continue ReadingObituary: Virginia Nell Kelly
Virginia Nell Kelly, 90, of Lakeland/Plant City, died Feb. 21, 2014. She was born April 6, 1923, to the late Dewey and Ambrose Lee Boyd. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Paul Kelly. Mrs. Kelly, known as “Nannie” by all who loved her, had worked at Tampa Drug, Kelly Auto Sales and was […]
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