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.” […]

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

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. […]