PLANT CITY Hugh Gramling of Plant City has been elected president of the Southern Region, International Plant Propagators Society. ...more

November 6, 2008

Jennifer Closshey, one of two Plant City residents on the Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing Board, has been elected its secretary. ...more

June 4, 2008

Regulators characterized it as the potential loss of a "nominal amount" of wetlands, but environmental advocates said allowing farmers to dredge or fill small ponds or marshes without replacing them whittles away at Hillsborough County's long-standing wetlands protections. ...more

January 21, 2008

The fate of frog ponds in Hillsborough County took center stage Thursday when the Environmental Protection Commission agreed to give farmers greater leeway in dredging and filling small wetlands after more than two hours of debate. ...more

January 18, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners found themselves neck deep in political muck when they abruptly voted to get rid of the county's wetlands protections last summer. ...more

November 7, 2007

A nursery growers group is pushing legislation that would tie the hands of Hillsborough County environmental officials in their efforts to protect wetlands on agricultural property. ...more

November 3, 2007