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Business News | Local Distillery Helps Secure Contract for Music Icons The Rolling Stones
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The Growing Pop-Up Market Industry is Fostering Community & Entrepreneurship Close to Home
“This is an industry that happened by accident”, said Cheryl Taylor, who pooled her experience as a business development strategist, public relations manager, and events coordinator to launch the growing pop-up circuit. […]
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT | Studio NPR now The Florida Room – Elevating downtown & bringing new opportunities for budding entrepreneurs
Studio NPR, much like the city, is fluid and ever-changing. It has flexible bones and a prime spot on Main Street nestled among local drinking and eating establishments and is just a few doors down from Wright’s Supermarket, a local mom-and-pop staple. […]
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The Music Gallery offers a new experience for music lovers
The 2,000-square-foot venue is located on the second floor of the historic Boulevard Building, adjacent to Mullins Music on Missouri Ave. in downtown New Port Richey and offers an intimate listening experience for music lovers. […]
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Community Spotlight | AmSkills bootcamps help prepare job candidates for the growing manufacturing field
The Tampa Bay area has the most manufacturing jobs in the state of Florida, according to AmSkills CEO, Tom Mudano. The problem is that many potential job applicants don’t know what manufacturing is in today’s world and they lack the basic soft and technical skills to qualify for an entry-level position. […]
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Community Spotlight | AMSkills Manufacturing Bootcamp opens doors to new possibilities
“We envision both youth and adults visiting to explore and learn new careers that they had never considered before,” said Tom Mudano, President & CEO of AmSkills. […]
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Biz Spotlight | Bringing New Port Richey’s Hacienda Hotel back to its old glory
A “fix it and they will come” thought is this century’s opportunistic gamble for The Hacienda and the ongoing revitalization of the city of New Port Richey […]
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Biz Spotlight: The BAM Bar brings new life to the old neighborhood
With its brightly lit dining areas inside and out and an eclectic menu, the BAM Bar brings new life to an old neighborhood. […]
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Working the Land: Urban Gardening Guru Jim Kovaleski Nurtures Food from His Front Yard to Your Dinner Table
Seven a.m. on a Tuesday morning and Jim Kovalseki is up and at ’em in the front yard of his New Port Richey home, pulling bunches of radishes and turnips out of the soil as the sun gets to burning off the dewy mist that settled in overnight. […]
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Local Biz Spotlight | Still serving it up small-town-style at the East Main Street Coffee & Sandwich Shop
It’s been a very rough go for local businesses, some that are not here anymore. So there’s relief in reporting that Brett Greist is still working the grill. Bob Kushner is still ordering his Americana, and customers like Robin Kenna are still stopping in for a Cuban pull and to catch a sense of how it used to be. […]