It's bigger than a breadbox, but that was about the only thing residents agreed upon Wednesday night regarding converting the former home of First Baptist Church into some type of public center. ...more

October 4, 2008

It's bigger than a breadbox, but that was about the only thing residents agreed upon Wednesday night regarding converting the former home of First Baptist Church into some type of public center. ...more

October 4, 2008

To borrow a line we once heard attributed to the late Rich Litowchak, a former publisher of this newspaper, "The fact that you've been doing a job 30 years doesn't mean you've been doing that job well." On all the available evidence, that line can't be used to describe Daniel Azzariti's tenure with the New Port Richey Fire Department. ...more

September 20, 2008

As farewells go, the one bestowed at Tuesday's City Council meeting could prove hard to top. Fire and Emergency Services Chief Daniel Azzariti was the man in the spotlight. ...more

September 20, 2008

The great debate these days in New Port Richey, Pasco County's largest city with just under 17,500 residents, is how to pump life into a downtown with too many empty storefronts. One idea is making a lot of waves. ...more

September 9, 2008

The voters demanded lower property taxes, and as Pasco County's cities work on spending packages for the next fiscal year, they are heeding that message. ...more

August 2, 2008

As New Port Richey Mayor Scott McPherson noted, last week's decision by St. Petersburg-based commercial developer Grady Pridgen to sell the downtown land on the Pithlachascotee River he owns wasn't a surprise. The decision, however, says a lot about the state of downtown redevelopment. ...more

June 25, 2008

The city's redevelopment efforts have been dealt another blow. St. Petersburg-based developer Grady Pridgen, who planned to build a massive retail and residential complex with condos, shops and offices overlooking the Pithlachascotee River, has put the property on the market, leaving the future of the project uncertain. ...more

June 21, 2008

The city's redevelopment efforts have been dealt another blow. St. Petersburg-based developer Grady Pridgen, who planned to build a massive retail and residential complex with condos, shops and offices overlooking the Pithlachascotee River, has put the property on the market, leaving the future of the project uncertain. ...more

June 20, 2008

Less than 50 cents a month. That's how much extra city residents and business owners would have been paying under a proposal to increase the annual street-lighting fee by 22 percent this year. ...more

June 19, 2008