Our Town

A group of about 20 employees from Lowe’s Home Improvement’s Hero program picked up rollers and brushes to paint the Pregnancy Care Center of Plant City. The center is in the final stages of a renovation project at its downtown Plant City home, 304 N. Collins St.

The Network of East Hillsborough Neighborhoods will host a back-to-school bash from noon to 5 p.m. Aug. 18, at the network center, 6369 E. Alexander St., Plant City. The event will feature a beauty pageant with awards for best smile and hair, an anti-bullying puppet show, bucket drumming, and free screenings for memory, blood sugar, […]

Attention shutterbugs: The Plant City Photo Archives & History Center is hosting a photo contest as part of its Plant City Sculptures Exhibit. To enter, snap a photo of you and/or your friends with one of the eight life-sized bronze Seward Johnson sculptures created on display in and near McCall Park. Bring an 8-by-10-inch or […]

Celebrating a new bundle of joy? If so, the Plant City Observer would like to celebrate with you! We welcome your birth announcements for publication. Please send your baby’s name, parents’ and siblings’ names, birth date, birth weight and length, and hospital to Managing Editor Michael Eng, meng@plantcityobserver.com. You may also include a photo.“>http://welcome-to-usa.ru/dengi-v-dolg-ufe.php

Plant City’s First Baptist Church is now offering a Christian cancer support group. Sharing Our Burdens meets at 4:30 p.m. the fourth Sunday of each month, at Plant City’s First Baptist Church, Room 136, 503 N. Palmer St. For more, call Diane Mabry, 365-0554.“>http://bardinhotel.ru/zayavka-na-poluchenie-zayma.php

The Plant City Lions Club presented a $1,000 check to the Pregnancy Care Center of Plant City at the club’s meeting Aug. 7. Executive Director Darlene Davis said the center will use the donation to purchase window treatments at the facility, 304 N. Collins St.

Lifelong Plant City resident Nancy McLean stopped by the Plant City Observer office July 30 bearing one special gift: a copy of the old Plant City Observer, circa July 1982. Although our newspaper is not connected with the original in any other way than its name, we had an absolute blast taking a trip down […]

The Plant City Family YMCA hosted a cheer/dance mini clinic July 24. The clinic was led by Tampa Bay Buccaneer cheerleader and squad co-captain Karen Bittinger, who taught the group of young girls several cheers and dance routines. The clinic was an outreach program for the Buccaneers to promote their Junior Clinic. This August, the […]