COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Local organizers bring MLK ‘Celebrate the Dream’ event back to the city park with plans to expand in 2024

Celebrate the Dream delivered an overall message of love and community inspired by Dr. King. It also could mark a resurrection of the once-held celebration to honor the Civil Rights hero in the city’s prized park and broaden the celebration to a three-day event. […]

ONWARD | EDITOR NOTES

Onward | When Life’s a Beach

Florida offers its own nuanced, homespun beauty that can shine through the political din, tourist traps, and the oft-publicized “Florida Man/Woman” antics, which, by the way, are often perpetrated by recent transplants from other states. […]

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Community Spotlight | The seventh annual Okra Occasion celebrates a summer harvest and offers a prelude for local growers fests to come

The Seventh Annual Okra Occasion offered a taste of one of Florida’s few summer vegetables as well as educational information on the upcoming growing season and local organizations involved with that. […]

CALENDARS | ARCHIVES

In Photos | The 9/11 Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Mobile Exhibit and Memorial Ceremony brings a somber reminder to downtown New Port Richey

As we commemorate the 21st anniversary of 9-11 the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Mobile Exhibit comes to New Port Richey bringing a somber reminder that we must not forget. […]

BUSINESS

New Port Richey’s historic Hacienda Hotel is open

“I want this to be a happy place for people, whether they are someone in their 20s where the building has been boarded up for their whole life or someone in their 60s who has memories of going to the high school prom or a wedding here,” owner Jim Gunderson said. “Hopefully, it will offer enough of an experience that people will find their spot here that would sort of tickle them.” […]