Buzzing like a hive, 150 volunteers scurry around the fellowship hall of St. Clement Catholic Church. It is just one day before the beloved Florida Strawberry Festival, and the church has one of just three booths on the entire grounds that offers the city’s signature strawberry shortcake. Last year, green-aproned volunteers sold more than 90,000 […]
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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 ReadingPresident will focus on recruiting, growth
After serving for five months as interim president of South Florida Baptist Hospital, Karen Kerr has taken the helm as president. “I am very excited about the opportunity,” Kerr said. Kerr took over as interim president last August, after former president Steve Nierman assumed the same role at Winter Haven Hospital. While Nierman was at […]
Continue ReadingInvestigation into mailbox fires continues
Attention Walden Lake residents: If you had a piece of mail mysteriously not make it to its recipient in the last few weeks, this may be why. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is investigating two incidences of fires at the mailbox at the entrance to Walden Lake. The latest occurred sometime between 6:40 and 8 […]
Continue ReadingAnnual parades celebrate festival season
online pharmacy https://www.taylordrivedental.com/wp-content/uploads/backup/2024/02/kamagra-oral-jelly.html with best prices today in the USA 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 […]
Continue ReadingCharges pending following deadly accident
Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials still are investigating a Feb. 5 fatal car accident. Keith Davis, 52, of Plant City, died at Lakeland Regional Medical Center from injuries he sustained when his 2002 black four-door Toyota was hit by a 2004 Gold Lincoln Navigator. That vehicle was driven by 16-year-old Jennifer Carvajal, of Plant […]
Continue ReadingChurch to host Pysansky egg workshop
Natalie Brennan still remembers making Pysanky eggs when she was a little girl with her paternal grandmother, Anna Michaluk. Anna had emigrated from Ukraine in the early 1900s and brought with her the tradition of creating colorfully designed eggs. Now, more than 50 years later, Brennan still is practicing the folk art, which is also […]
Continue ReadingBREAKING NEWS: Ronnie Milsap cancels festival show
The Florida Strawberry Festival announced today that Ronnie Milsap, the entertainer scheduled to perform at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, has been replaced with BJ Thomas. “Still recovering from recent surgery, and under doctor’s supervision, Ronnie Milsap has not been cleared to travel and/or perform and must regretfully cancel his scheduled appearance at the Florida Strawberry Festival,” said a Milsap […]
Continue ReadingWalden Lake students learn about bike safety
Walden Lake Elementary had a bike rodeo hosted by St. Joseph’s Hospital Feb. 20 and 21. Staff came out to the school and did a presentation for the primary grades. The fourth and fifth graders went through a course set up outside on bikes and scooters to practice the hand signals. They also learned how […]
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