About 3,000 patrons and food lovers braved the weather to attend Saturday's Fiesta Day in Ybor City before organizers closed down the event four hours early. ...more

February 24, 2008

"Remembering Plant City; Tales from the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World" will be on sale at the Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce's booth on the Florida Strawberry Festival grounds. Copies are $20 and include photographs and stories from the Plant City Photo Archives. ...more

February 22, 2008

The Ybor City Chamber of Commerce hosted its Winter Expo Feb. 12 at the Columbia Restaurant, 2117 E. Seventh Ave. ...more

February 20, 2008

Visitors to the Florida Strawberry Festival will notice some changes this year, from a large gate to get them into the grounds faster to a strictly enforced ban on eating and drinking in livestock tents. ...more

February 20, 2008

Things are busy at the Plant City Family YMCA, 1507 YMCA Place. The organization recently launched its 2008 annual giving effort, the Building Strong Kids Campaign. This year's fundraising goal is $110,000. All money raised in the campaign stays in Plant City to help make YMCA membership and programs possible for children and families who could not otherwise afford to participate. ...more

February 16, 2008

PLANT CITY - Visitors to the Florida Strawberry Festival will notice some changes this year, from a large gate to get them into the grounds faster to a strictly enforced ban on eating and drinking in livestock tents. ...more

February 13, 2008

PLANT CITY - Retired lawyer and community leader Bob Edwards will be honored next month at a fundraising luncheon sponsored by the Gulf Ridge Council's Timucua District of The Boy Scouts of America. ...more

January 28, 2008

If you're like us, you never saw a kumquat until you set foot in Pasco County, and you've probably wondered what to do with them besides just puckering up and eating them whole. So we asked the experts at the Greater Dade City Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the annual Kumquat Festival taking place Saturday, for recipe suggestions. Then staff photographer Christine DeLessio and I rolled up our sleeves. ...more

January 25, 2008

For many years, Agnes Lamb was the woman behind the scenes here, the one who made things happen. ...more

January 23, 2008