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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. […]

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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.” […]

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African American Club of West Pasco marks Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a symbolic march and spirited speeches

As the weather goes, it was on the cool side, but morning clouds broke in time for the symbolic march led by children singing “We Shall Overcome” as they walked from Unity Mission Baptist Church on Pine Hill Road In Port Richey, past the former “blacks only” Booker T. Washington School that now houses the AAC, and down the hill to the Unity Spiritual Center. […]

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Community Spotlight | The little orchestra that could – and did – amid the pandemic

As longtime director and principal clarinet player for the community orchestra, Denise Isaacson had no idea what the 2020-2021 concert season would bring – or if there would even be a season – when the group began rehearsing with plexiglass partitions back in October. […]