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Pasco County earned the NACo EDGE Excellence in Strategic Planning Award for its 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, which addresses rapid growth, public safety and economic development across the county's 659,000-plus residents.
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Pasco County's Metropolitan Planning Organization will present final recommendations for its first Transportation Resilience Improvement Plan, featuring more than 31 projects and 11 policy recommendations to protect roads from flooding, extreme heat and evacuations, at a public meeting Thursday, Aug. 20.
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Campaign finance filings show incumbent Rep. Randy Maggard holds a roughly 14-to-1 fundraising advantage over Wesley Chapel firefighter Michael Pultorak heading into the Aug. 18 Republican primary for Florida House District 54, with early voting closing Saturday.
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Jane Keene, 75, was found safe Wednesday morning after the Pasco County Sheriff's Office issued a Silver Alert for her Tuesday night when she went missing from the 14000 block of Fivay Road in Hudson.
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The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is replacing its Flock license plate reader cameras with Axon technology along the SR-54 corridor through Wesley Chapel, saving $50,000 without adding cameras, though a local privacy advocate says data-sharing concerns remain.
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A free Back-to-School Bash at Wesley Chapel District Park on Saturday, Aug. 8, is giving away more than 100 backpacks to K-12 students, while The Market Elaine has been rescheduled from Aug. 7 to Aug. 14 at The Grove.
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Pasco County Schools launched the free Pasco One app days before the Aug. 13 first day of school, replacing three to four separate platforms Wesley Chapel families previously used for lunch payments, bus routes, grades and school forms.
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The Pasco County Commission adopted a Comprehensive Plan amendment on July 14 allowing James & Dorothy Mitchell Investments Ltd. to develop a 1,219-acre master-planned community west of U.S. 41 with up to 1,428 homes and 979,000 square feet of nonresidential space, phased to require job-creating construction before housing.
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The North Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce held its second annual "Pitch With A Purpose" nonprofit showcase breakfast on Aug. 4 at PHSC's Porter Campus in Wesley Chapel, featuring four local nonprofits pitching their missions to area business professionals.
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With 12 days until the Tuesday, Aug. 18 primary, campaign finance filings show a roughly 1,000-to-1 cash gap between District 4 Commissioner Lisa Yeager and challenger Jonathan Deckard in the race that directly governs Wesley Chapel, while school board and District 2 commission races also show wide fundraising disparities.
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Wesley Chapel Library and New River Library are hosting free family programs including Toddler Storytime, Preschool Storytime, Yarn for a Cause and Chess Club during the final week before Pasco County schools open Thursday, Aug. 13.
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Early voting for the Aug. 18 Pasco County primary opens Saturday at three Wesley Chapel sites, with two former locations dropped and a real-time wait-time tool available online.
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FDOT's $19.8 million project starting Aug. 25 on SR-56 and Bruce B. Downs Boulevard includes a reconfiguration of the Meadow Pointe Boulevard merge, ADA upgrades, drainage work and signal improvements across 7.3 miles, with no lane closure schedule released yet just 12 days into the school year.
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