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2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Guide: Fast Facts
What’s included with my admission ticket? For the price of a movie ticket, you can have fun all day! Included in your gate admission is access to view all of the festival’s exhibits and competitions, livestock shows, arts and crafts vendors and free entertainers. Are any grouprates available? The Festival does not offer group admission […]
Continue ReadingThe Angel Foundation Joins the Plant City Community
The Mission of the Angel Foundation is to partner with businesses and individuals to be a caring resource for families in our community experiencing a temporary crisis due to a life-threatening illness or catastrophic event. Their program matches families with local businesses and individuals with available resources to help meet practical needs. The foundation will […]
Continue Reading2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Guide: New Craft Vendors
All Of Us Dip A wide variety of dips and mixes. Located in the Stadium Exhibit Building. Bourbon & Boweties Specializing in bangle bracelets, earrings, and necklaces hand-crafted with love by women in the Tampa Bay area. Bourbon and Boweties is located in the Stadium Exhibit Building. Carolina Pickle Company Selling more than 40 varieties […]
Continue ReadingFazoli’s Celebrates Two Years of Pasta Perfection
Fazoli’s owner Rodney Keys has been serving up great pasta dishes, and supporting the local community, for two years.
Continue Reading2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Guide: Meet 2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Queen Annistyn Faith Griffin
The 2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Queen’s Pageant contestant Annistyn Faith Griffin may have randomly drawn ‘Contestant #2’ from a basket of contestant numbers, but by the end of the night it would be clear that she was number one. Griffin, a junior at Durant High School who is also dual-enrolled at Hillsborough Community College, was […]
Continue Reading2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Guide: Court Member Abigail Louise Spivey
2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Court member Abigail Louise Spivey wasn’t used to being cheered for as her name was called as a court member. She was used to doing the cheering. The junior at Plant City High School, who is also dual-enrolled at Hillsborough Community College, is on the Plant City Varsity Cheer team, the […]
Continue Reading2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Guide: Headline Entertainment
It’s a star-studded lineup at the 2024 Florida Strawberry Festival.
Continue Reading2024 Florida Strawbery Festival Guide: Meet Florida Strawberry Festival Court Member SaraGrace Elizabeth Sparkman
When 2024 Florida Strawberry Festival Court member SaraGrace Elizabeth Sparkman, daughter of Tom and Katie Sparkman, was on stage waiting for the court members to be announced and heard her name called, she was surprised. “I was calm and at peace while I was waiting for the names to be read because I knew it […]
Continue ReadingObituaries 02.29.24
Douglas Burkett, Sr. Douglas Burkett, Sr., 77, of Plant City, Fla., born on Sept. 5, 1946, in Charleston, West Virginia, entered into eternal rest on Feb. 22, 2024. Expressions of condolences at www.HopewellFuneral.com. Terry Mobley Karen DeeAnn Terry Mobley, 38, of Valrico, Fla., born on June 21, 1985, in Lakeland, Fla., entered into eternal […]
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