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🌱 Patch AM: What Plant City’s new budget and millage rate mean for your street

Also, don't miss Free Dog Training Class on the Plant City Patch calendar

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Greetings Plant City! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • What Plant City's new budget and millage rate mean for your street
  • When and where Plant City's new free shower service is available
  • Which Plant City streets saw the most police calls last week?

Also on today's calendar: Free Dog Training Class and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 90 and low of 74 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Saturday: A shower and thunderstorm, temps: high: 89, low: 73.
  • Sunday: Humid; a p.m. t-storm or two, with a high of 91 and low of 74 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Plant City Commission Approves Budget, Millage Rate (plantcityobserver.com) — Plant City commissioners have unanimously approved the 2026-27 budget and a 5.7157 millage rate, decisions that shape funding for public safety, street resurfacing, and city services. Residents also pressed leaders about data centers, a police data breach, flooding, homelessness, and election timing, while the city advanced roof repairs, utility upgrades, and engineering contracts that will affect neighborhoods and schools.
   

2. Plant City church offers bathing, toiletries with help of Tampa-based ShowerUp (plantcityobserver.com) — A downtown Plant City church is now offering free monthly showers, toiletries, and clothing for homeless and struggling neighbors, partnering with Tampa-based nonprofit ShowerUp. Mount Olive Baptist Church hosts the portable shower service every fourth Tuesday morning, while continuing to collect donated towels, toiletries, and gently used clothes so more local residents in need can access basic hygiene and support.
   

3. Cops Corner 10.01.26 (plantcityobserver.com) — A week's worth of Plant City police calls shows everything from stolen cars and traffic-sign batteries to locker burglaries, fence damage, and a crash where the driver fled. Officers also handled fights, a firearm-brandishing incident, marijuana possession, and several arrests along familiar corridors like James L Redman Parkway, Collins Street, and Turkey Creek Road.
   

4. The Ultimate Guide to Halloween in Orlando 2026 (orlandomagazine.com) — Plant City horror fans get a shout-out in this Orlando-focused Halloween guide, which spotlights Sir Henry's Haunted Trail as one of Florida's top independent haunts. Running select nights from Sept. 25 to Nov. 1, it features multiple haunted trails, a hayride, games, food, and roaming scare actors, with advance tickets starting at $27.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

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  • Pizza Hut - Flynn Group posted a job opening for Assistant Manager in Plant City. Apply here.
  • Taco Bell posted a job opening for Shift Lead in Lakeland. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Plant City here.

Ok Plant City! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig?" — Because he was such a boar! (Thank you Theresa H. for sending it in!)
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