Should Brandon have estate-size lots or city-style lots with homes built close to the roads? ...more

March 25, 2009

The sight of scaffolding and guys in hard hats may give shoppers the impression that downtown's Fifth Avenue has been turned into a construction zone. ...more

January 11, 2008

High Tea, Plant City Style He, a cowboy, makes a mean scone. She, a nurse, is a tea expert. Together, Rick and Susan-Lynn Lewis give harried holiday shoppers an alternative to mall madness at Plant City's Simply Country Gifts & Southern Belles Tearoom. The "country Victorian" tea room offers Christmas carol teas this month. ...more

December 2, 2007

Seven Fifth Avenue storefronts will get makeovers, the city council unanimously decided Monday night, as the city continues trying to spiff up the downtown. ...more

October 9, 2007

When Joe Abed opened Manolo's Italian Restaurant five years ago, he spent two months buffing and sanding the floors, scrubbing off a quarter-inch layer of tar that hid the old hardwood. ...more

October 8, 2007