If Plant City residents and visitors want to connect a mobile device to the Internet in the downtown district, they will have to enter a business that offers Wi-Fi to its customers. The public Wi-Fi installed in McCall Park will be taken down within the next month. The Wi-Fi equipment was installed about 10 years […]
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Park improvements near completion
Four Plant City parks have been undergoing simultaneous makeovers, and Interim City Manager Dave Sollenberger hopes to wrap up plans for these projects before he passes his responsibilities onto new city manager Mike Herr at the end of September. “It’s just kind of a convergence of several things coming together at the same time, kind […]
Continue ReadingArt Wood to retire from credit union
Throughout Art Wood’s 40-year career with credit unions, he’s learned a lot of life lessons. When he got his first break into the business, he found that taking the initiative could get him far. “Even if you don’t know how to do it, if you can figure it out tell them you know, and then […]
Continue ReadingPlant City steps up to the mic for CDC
At the HCC Plant City John R. Trinkle Center’s latest event, audience members can enjoy a concert of all their favorite songs. Complete with back-up singers, costumes and snazzy dance moves, the performers will cover a variety of well known hits. But, they won’t actually be singing the songs themselves — they will be lip […]
Continue ReadingPlant City High School hosts cyberbullying seminar
Perhaps one of the most important lessons Plant City High students learned last week didn’t take place in the classroom. The school’s 2,200 students participated in a presentation about cyberbullying Sept. 3. Led by Rita Peters, chief of the Hillsborough state attorney’s sex crimes division, this year’s presentation was much larger than the one Peters […]
Continue ReadingLiteracy Academy opens at its new Baker Street facility
Freshly printed books were set up neatly on tables at the Literacy Academy of Plant City Monday, Sept. 8. Children excitedly picked out their favorites, going back to practice reading them in their parents’ laps. It was the open house for the academy’s new Plant City location, 504 E. Baker St. The academy is a […]
Continue ReadingArchives kicks off exhibit contest
The Plant City Photo Archives & History Center is hosting a photo contest for its “Man on the Street” sculptures exhibit. The archives is inviting you to take a picture with one of the 10 sculptures for a chance to be featured in a gallery. The photo must include at least one person with the […]
Continue ReadingStrawberry Fest named to top 20
The Florida Strawberry Festival has been named a Top 20 Event for February 2015 by the Southeast Tourism Society for the 13th time. The Southeast Tourism Society, a non-profit organization that promotes and develops tourism throughout the Southeast, annually awards successful fairs, festivals, tourism attractions, special events and more across the Southeast by naming them […]
Continue ReadingSuspect identified in St. Pete shooting of Plant City man
UPDATE: A suspect has been identified in the St. Petersburg shooting of a Plant City man. Devin Pierre-Antione Dixon, 30, of Plant City, is wanted on an outstanding first degree murder warrant for the Sept. 8 shooting of Clinton Bailey, 24, of Plant City, in front of a Queensboro Avenue South home. Bailey was at outside […]
Continue ReadingPolice looking for missing endangered adult
At about 9:32 a.m., Sept. 10, the Plant City Police Department responded to a residence in the 3500 block of Liles Lane in reference to a missing endangered adult male. Family members advised that white male, William Witherspoon, 74, was last seen at his residence between 4 and 5 a.m. Witherspoon left his residence on foot and his […]
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