Michelle Caceres

For eight years, Judy Wise has carried a quiet worry: What happens to Plant City's annual veterans event if she can no longer run it?

AMVETS' annual motorcycle ride honors those lost on Sept. 11 while giving back to those who serve the community. Photos courtesy of Hillbilly Photography

Her rocking chair sits near the entrance of Fred's Market Restaurant, where it has become almost as familiar as the smell of fried chicken, vegetables and skillet cornbread.

Share This Post Facebook Pinterest Twitter LinkedinFor more than three decades, Ken Lawrence has lived in Walden Lake without giving much thought to alligators. That changed about six months ago, when, for the first time since he moved there, he saw alligators in the ponds near his Emerald Forest home. Now, the retired businessman and …

Seven years ago, Hillsborough County voters approved an extra half-penny sales tax to help the school district repair and improve aging campuses.

Twenty years ago, a Plant City native with a veterinary degree and a big idea came home to open a pet hospital. Now Timberlane Pet Hospital & Resort is throwing itself a birthday party, and the whole town is invited.

Break out the costumes and make room in the candy bucket. Plant City has a full calendar of fall festivals, corn mazes, haunted attractions and Halloween events this October.

On his final Sunday as pastor of Lone Oak Missionary Baptist Church, Pastor Kerry Beaty watched three people be baptized, and four others join the congregation. It was a fitting close, he said, to 28 years in the pulpit.

Most people who walk the trails at McIntosh Park probably don't think about the water underneath them. Plant City leaders do.

As early voting approaches across the region, local election officials are urging voters to look beyond familiar candidate races and prepare for a series of consequential choices waiting at the bottom of the ballot.