Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Community
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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Twelve Pasco County Fire Rescue cadets are competing at the 2026 Summer Gator Fire Games in Gainesville through Sunday, representing the department's high school cadet program in a statewide firefighting competition.
Community
Asher Thompson, 10, is showing facial expressions including smiling and crying after nearly seven weeks in a medically induced coma following a June 12 crash on State Road 52 in Hudson, his mother told WFLA. A community fundraiser is set for Saturday, Aug. 1, at Mitchell Field in New Port Richey.
Community
Pasco County's 11th annual Two Good Soles Drive is collecting new shoes and socks for students through Oct. 16, and for the first time the campaign includes a 5K run/walk on Sept. 12 at Sunwest Park in Hudson.
Community
A Lutz-based nonprofit founder is raising money to feed more than 1,200 Cuban children and shipping solar panels to a Cuban church ahead of an August 22 mission trip to Havana, as Cuba faces its worst power and food crisis in years.
Community
Dade City police officers chased down and safely captured a loose emu that was roaming town streets on Sunday, July 26, with no injuries reported. Pasco County residents can call Animal Services at (813) 929-1212 to report loose or dangerous animals.
Community
Pasco County Fire Rescue Station 23 on State Road 54 hosted service dogs-in-training from Dogs Inc. on Friday, July 18, giving the animals critical socialization exposure to alert tones, ambulance equipment, and firefighters in full gear.
Community
The Estancia at Wiregrass CDD board met Tuesday, July 21, 2026, to consider extending multi-use trail construction, repairing erosion at two ponds, resurfacing the community pool, and adopting new amenity rental agreements and guidelines.
Community
More than 150 people gathered at the New Tampa Recreation Center on June 30 to celebrate both America's 250th birthday and the 104th birthday of Roy Caldwood, a Bronze Star recipient and Buffalo Soldier who lives in the Grand Hampton community near Wesley Chapel.
Community
Pasco Fire Rescue's annual Fill the Boot fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association returns to all five Pasco County Tax Collector offices throughout August 2026, with the Wesley Chapel location at 4610 Pet Lane accepting donations in person or online.
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Moffitt Cancer Center will begin proton therapy treatments at its Speros outpatient campus in Land O'Lakes on Monday, July 27, using a Proteus ONE machine that delivers sub-millimeter precision radiation for tumors near vital organs.
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