Opinion

Keep your eye on Bruton Memorial Library over the next few months, because Library Director Tonda Morris is gearing up for some big things in the Plant City library’s future to make it even better.  First gear will be this year’s Mystery Dinner Theater, sponsored by the Friends of the Library. I was new in […]

Awarded a building that would become known as the John R. Trinkle Center, the Plant City Campus of Hillsborough Community College lacked just one thing:  $800,000 to furnish and equip it.   In 2004, a group of active community leaders recruited to raise the funds sat around a long table in the Campus Administration Building’s […]

I am celebrating my 35th year as a Rotarian this month. All three Rotary clubs I have been a member of, including our great Plant City Noon Rotary club, have used 50-50 drawings to raise money and enhance attendance and fun. Although I now prefer to throw my money in the pot in an option […]

Rather than do all this work themselves, the city is harnessing Plant City’s spirit to organize and unite around common goals.

Plant City Commission took the first step at its March 25th meeting on resetting some of our local controls on the sale of alcohol in Plant City contained in Section 10-62 of the Plant City Code.     Using its regulatory power, in addition to modifying controls on alcohol throughout the city, the new ordinance […]