This year’s Christmas window display competition will be decided by you, the public.
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Plant City Police “Back the Beard” To Provide Gifts For Children and Seniors During Holiday Season
The Plant City Police Department (PCPD) will have the chance to play Santa while providing gifts to children and seniors thanks to its “Back the Beard” campaign, a fundraiser, in its third year, allowing male officers to grow full beards and female officers to polish their names with non-traditional colors, for a small monthly donation. […]
Continue ReadingMarshall Middle Magnet IB World School’s Chandra Todd Named 2023-2024 Hillsborough County Assistant Principal of the Year
Marshall Middle Magnet IB World School Assistant Principal Chandra Todd is used to the processional of students, parents and staff members who pass through the school’s front office on a daily basis. One day last month was no ordinary day. The school received a visit from Superintendent Van Ayres, School Board member Patti Rendon and […]
Continue ReadingA Job To Go Places And Do Things!
I got my first real job many years ago when at 16 I went to work for the Plant City Courier. The Courier was, at the time, our local newspaper and had been so for many years. It was a venerable institution, highly regarded by most everyone in town as a trusted source for news […]
Continue ReadingFans Have Camped Out For a Week to Snag Florida Strawberry Festival Concert Tickets
Florida Strawberry Festival concert tickets go on sale Thursday, Dec. 7.
Continue ReadingA Look Back At Plant City’s Christmas Traditions
The persevering spirit of the season has filled the hearts and souls of residents for decades.
Continue ReadingAround Town 12.07.23
We asked Plant City: What’s your favorite event/tradition associated with the Christmas season? Running with Plant City Running Club checking out the wonderful Christmas lights around our downtown. Michelle Patino Children’s nativity Christmas plays at church. Barbara Henson Rook I love to drive around different neighborhoods looking at the Christmas lights and murals lit up […]
Continue ReadingObituaries 12.07.23
Charles Hardy Meadows Charles Hardy Meadows, 75, of Lithia, Fla., formerly of Bladenboro, North Carolina, born on Apr.12, 1948, in Lumberton, North Carolina, entered into eternal rest on Nov. 28, 2023. Expressions of condolences at www.HopewellFuneral.com. George Kercado George Kercado, 77, of Plant City, Fla., born on Mar. 29, 1946, in New York, NY, entered […]
Continue ReadingLights of Love Kicks Off Holiday Season
Lights of Love, in its twenty-fifth year, raised more than $40,000 for the Foundation at South Florida Baptist Hospital.
Continue Reading25th Annual Lights of Love
Lights of Love lit up Downtown Plant City and kicked off the start of the holiday season.
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