City News | It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

The City of New Port Richey lights up Sims Park with the annual Tree Lighting event held on December 5. Photo | Michele Miller

December 8, 2025

Phots and Text by Michele Miller
What’s What New Port Richey

The City of New Port Richey Parks & Recreation Department really outdid itself with this year’s Christmas Tree Lighting event, held on Friday, December 5, which came complete with a tropical snowfall and a temporary “sledding/tubing event” held in Sims Park.

On Satruday evening, New Port Richey Main Street followed up with the annual boat parade, which offered a fine showing of decorated vessels making their way down the Pithlachascotee River from Miller’s Bayou in Port Richey to Sims Park in New Port Richey.



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