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. […]

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. […]

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.” […]

FEATURES

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. […]