Daily Archives: August 10, 2015

Funding approved for program to spur redevelopment in New Port Richey

NEW PORT RICHEY — City leaders have given the initial green light to spend nearly half a million dollars next fiscal year on its matching business grant program, the goal of which is to spur redevelopment in three key corridors in New Port Richey. During a meeting Tuesday, the New Port Richey City Council, acting…

Editorial: The heart of Gainesville

More than three decades after a Gainesville property was put on a federal list of toxic sites, city officials are finally getting serious about improving the neighborhood around it. The Koppers property, which housed a wood-treatment operation, was put on the federal Superfund cleanup list in 1983. It wasn’t until last year that the cleanup…