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Year in Review: March 2022

December 29, 2022 By Taylor Jenkins

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 […]

Year in Review: April 2022

December 29, 2022 By Taylor Jenkins

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 […]

Year in Review: May 2022

December 29, 2022 By Taylor Jenkins

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 […]

Year in Review: June 2022

December 29, 2022 By Taylor Jenkins

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 […]