Plant City celebrated our nation’s founding and a Plant City baseball player was picked 54th overall in the second round of the 2022 MLB Draft by the Cleveland Guardians.
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Year in Review: January 2022
Plant City kicked off their 2022 New Year with the yearly return of the city’s 36th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade and Cultural Arts Festival, an event that saw marching bands and floats and spectators fill the streets of Plant City as the parade made its way through town and down to the […]
Continue ReadingYear in Review: February 2022
February brought more fun and celebration to Plant City, starting with an “Evening on Evers Street,” a fundraising event sponsored by Wish Farms that shut down the bustling downtown street for the evening as the community gathered together and raised money for the United Food Bank of Plant City. The event featured live music, a […]
Continue ReadingYear in Review: March 2022
As always, March was dominated by Plant City’s annual attraction, the 87th Annual Florida Strawberry Festival. 2022’s installment saw massive crowds take over the winter strawberry capitol of the world throughout the 11-day event, with new foods, attractions and headline entertainment back at the Wish Farms SoundStage after the festival saw their headline acts cancelled […]
Continue ReadingYear in Review: April 2022
To celebrate National Library Week in early April, the Plant City Library Foundation invited members of the community to come out and see a renovated Bruton Memorial Library as new Library Services Director Paul Shaver was also formally introduced. Plant City Main Street also began a new direction as Dawn Hyatt stepped into the organization’s […]
Continue ReadingYear in Review: May 2022
With the summer months upcoming, the Plant City YMCA was granted a $10,000 donation in May that allowed them to provide free swim lessons to first grade students and water safety lessons to kindergarten and second grade students from Knights Elementary. And after being named queen during Plant City’s Junior Royalty pageant in January, Durant […]
Continue ReadingYear in Review: June 2022
In June, the STEM-focused summer camp Camp Invention returned to the Arthur Boring Civic Center in Plant City for the eighth year, with 127 campers spending the week learning and building in the fun-filled environment. After being named Miss Dover Teen USA earlier in the year, Strawberry Crest graduate Lauren Abbey represented the Plant City […]
Continue ReadingYear in Review: November 2022
November was a busy month as Plant City residents gave back in several ways.
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Holiday events were plentiful in December, with lots of goodwill and holiday cheer being spread around Plant City.
Continue ReadingYear in Review: August 2022
August was a busy news month in Plant City.
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