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The VanDercar family's eight-acre art sanctuary in Wesley Chapel's Quail Hollow neighborhood offers $10 guided night tours of illuminated sculptures, dragons and gargoyles every Tuesday and Friday through October.
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The first-ever "Taste of North Tampa Bay" food festival is set for Saturday, March 13, 2027, at Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel, with organizers targeting 50 to 80 restaurants and up to 10,000 attendees.
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Pasco County commissioners voted 3-0 on Sept. 9 to approve the Two Rivers master plan expansion along SR-56, greenlighting a 35-acre Peak Surf Park, 6,547 total residential units and an FDOT-funded widening of U.S. 301 targeted for 2029 construction.
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Seven events fill the Wesley Chapel calendar the week of Sept. 25–30, headlined by the Walk to End Alzheimer's at The Shops at Wiregrass on Saturday and the Auto & Truck Showcase on Sunday.
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Lovebugs are swarming Wesley Chapel neighborhoods including Wiregrass, Meadow Pointe and Seven Oaks, and their acidic residue can permanently damage car paint within several days. UF/IFAS Extension recommends soaking and scrubbing vehicles promptly, and the four-week swarm should ease within a few weeks.
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Executive Chef Emanuel Zarlenga has replaced much of the menu at Saddlebrook Resort's RARE 1981 with Argentine-influenced dishes, adding items like Choripan, Whey-Melon Tuna and Lengua a la Vinagreta alongside the restaurant's signature prime steaks and Gulf Coast seafood.
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Pasco County Fire Rescue will offer free car seat inspections by certified technicians at Station 13 in Wesley Chapel on Saturday, Sept. 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel hosts Orchestra Fuego Live on Saturday, Sept. 19, for a Latin freestyle and '80s/'90s dance night at the Lagoon Pavilion, with tickets at $31.03.
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Pasco County Supervisor of Elections Brian E. Corley announced that sample ballots for the Nov. 3 general election are available online at PascoVotes.gov, with printed copies mailing Oct. 7; voters who have moved need to update their address to receive one.
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Pasco County Fire Rescue honored 8-year-old Shaylee Maxson with its Lifesaver Award after she woke her family during a middle-of-the-night porch fire in June, allowing all six people in the home to escape safely.
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The family of the late Lewis VanDercar, known as the "Warlock of Wesley Chapel," will open the historic Queen Sago Place estate for its first-ever Spookfest on Saturday, Oct. 3, a family-friendly Halloween festival with games, crafts and live entertainment.
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Marine veteran Christopher Lawrence, who lost a leg in a 2007 Iraq bombing after enlisting in response to 9/11, has settled into a custom-built, wheelchair-accessible Wesley Chapel home donated by Homes for Our Troops.
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Metro Development Group broke ground Sept. 1 on The Social amenity center at Angeline and launched a BayCare partnership that will place a registered nurse inside the master-planned community near Wesley Chapel.
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