By Amber Jurgensen | Associate Editor Plant City Police detectives arrested Talae Akei Thomas late this afternoon and charged her with aggravated child abuse and first degree murder in connection with the death of her five-week old son. Last night, Plant City police responded to a suspicious person call and found Thomas laying in the […]
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THEY BUILT IT: Fried and Friendly
By Amber Jurgensen | Associate Editor Editor’s note: They Built It is an occasional series featuring Plant City’s small-business owners. Maryland Fried Chicken hasn’t even opened for business for the day. In fact, it isn’t even lunchtime. It is 10:30 a.m., but already customers were pouring in the door, ready to get a bite of […]
Continue ReadingSchools find success at MOSI’s Science Olympics
By Amber Jurgensen | Associate Editor Science has never been so fun. Elementary students from more than 140 schools built skyscrapers with paper cups, constructed boats out of foil and launched paper airplanes during the Science Olympics Nov. 10, at the Museum of Science and Industry, in Tampa.
Continue ReadingWhat happened to Kelly Moriarty?
By Michael Eng | Managing Editor It’s a small urn, no bigger than a perfume bottle. And inside are the ashes of Kelly Moriarty’s leg, which washed ashore in December 2011, in south St. Petersburg. The urn sits on a dresser in the Bradenton home of Bud and Grace Moriarty. It’s all they have left […]
Continue ReadingHammocks path usage to include golf carts
By Amber Jurgensen | Associate Editor Hammocks residents Rod and Ima Storts made one more appearance at the Walden Lake Community Association’s meeting Nov. 12, to lobby the association to allow golf carts to use a pedestrian path in the Hammocks. Four other residents came with them in support.
Continue ReadingMusic and meat: a perfect marriage
The Hungry Gator Meat Market celebrated its grand opening with live music, gator bites and frog legs Nov. 10, at the market, 206 S. Evers St.
Continue ReadingPlant City home to famous feline
Move over Morris: There’s a new example of feline purr-fection in town!
Continue ReadingAnchors announced for Lake Walden Square
By Amber Jurgensen | Associate Editor PetSmart, Michaels and Ross Dress for Less all will open new locations in July 2013, at the Lake Walden Square shopping center on West Alexander Street. The retailers are considered major tenants by DDR, the shopping center’s management company, along with Sweetbay and Premiere Cinemas.
Continue ReadingBlake Shelton to headline festival
The 2013 Florida Strawberry Festival is shaping up to be one of the best in Plant City history.
Continue ReadingSweet Success
Whispering Woods residents Corbin Simonds, Hailey Tidwell, Kaylee Thurston, Mackenzie Steele and Logan Laietta served up homemade lemonade Nov. 12, as a fundraiser for Haiti.
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