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Plant City · Plant CityThe downtown Plant City address of 208 S. Collins Street once housed the headquarters of a major player in Florida agriculture. Henry Kilgore and his wife, Flossie, founded the Kilgore Seed Company in the early 1900s. Prior to their marriage, Flossie worked in her uncle’s seed business. So, after 1905 when the couple moved from Bartow to Plant City, Flossie applied seed knowledge to the business and Henry supplied a talent to sell and long hours…See the Story
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Plant City · Plant CityFWC sets up trail cameras for online viewing The Everglades Wildlife Watch is a new Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) volunteer program and participatory science project based in south Florida, hosted on the Zooniverse platform. It’s focused on improving understanding of wildlife patterns on the FWC’s wildlife management area system and combines in-the-field volunteering with online participation to give us a region-wide id…See the Story
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Plant City · Plant CityThe enormously popular Vintage Market Days, the traveling pop-up indoor/outdoor market, will return to the Florida Strawberry Festival Grounds, located at 2508 W. Oak Ave., this weekend for a three-day shopping event with the theme “Bloom.” The upscale market will feature more than 100 vendors, some local and some from all around the country, displaying a wide variety of vintage goods, including original art, antiques, clothing, jewelry, handm…See the Story
Vintage Market Days Returns To Plant City This Weekend
Plant City · Plant CityOverall, the state of the water running from Plant City faucets is “good quality, safe drinking water.” That’s the bottom-of-the-well conclusion by Mark Woodward, Plant City’s water conservation coordinator and the city’s annual water quality report. April 4, the 26th Annual Drinking Water Quality Report was released by the City of Plant City Utilities Department. The 2023 water quality report concluded the city’s drinking water “meets all sta…See the Story
Plant City’s water flowing with quality
Plant City · Plant CityThe City of Plant City is 25 miles east of Tampa, 50 miles west of Orlando, and a stone’s throw from Lakeland. Plant City covers 32 square miles and holds a population of more than 38,000. According to the tracking of the city offices, 224 single-family home permits were issued in 2021, 490 in 2022, and 718 in 2023. This trending development will continue to rapidly grow the population. Why all of these new homes? What draws people to our town…See the Story
Why Do You Live in Plant City?
Floods · Plant CityJack Duncan has lived in the Roseland Park subdivision in south Plant City for 42 years and over that time he said he’s seen some its infrastructure show its age. Among the problems Duncan said he’s seen is “bad” flooding on McDonald Street, north of his wood frame house at the southern dead end of that road. “You have to drive a loop around it to get past it,” said Duncan, sitting on his front porch with friends just before noon Tuesday. “I h…See the Story
Meeting of the Plant City City Commission
Plant City · Plant CityFor the past 70-plus years, South Florida Baptist Hospital has served the Plant City and surrounding communities in its Alexander Street facility With a goal of a mid-May opening, South Florida Baptist Hospital (SFBH) will be treating and caring for its patients in a new state-of-the-art facility being built off exit 22 of Interstate 4. To give folks the chance to see the inside of the new hospital, SFBH is holding a community preview event. Fro…See the Story
A peek behind the walls
Plant City · Plant CityFirst Baptist Church of Plant City (FBCPC) Associate Pastor Tommy Warnock this year celebrates 40 years with the congregation. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, his journey to Christ was one defined by stepping into the light that God placed before him. Reflecting on his early years, Warnock recounts how he grew up in a family that didn’t attend church but he started attending Memphis’ Broadmoor Baptist Church, admittedly more for the prett…See the Story