Watergrass Teacher Wins State Music Award

Watergrass Elementary’s Karen Reinhold received the Florida Music Educators Association’s 2013-14 Music Education Service Award.
Watergrass Elementary’s Karen Reinhold received the Florida Music Educators Association’s 2013-14 Music Education Service Award.

By Matt Wiley

Music is known to bring joy to people’s lives. In the case of one Wesley Chapel educator, it is her passion that she has spent decades sharing with her students — and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.Continue reading

Ear To The Ground: Myriad Of Businesses Headed To Wesley Chapel

Advanced Auto Parts and Walmart (in the distance) are just two of many businesses on the way to the Wesley Chapel area in the near future.
Advanced Auto Parts and Walmart (in the distance) are just two of many businesses on the way to the Wesley Chapel area in the near future.

By Gary Nager

Although there are still a lot of unconfirmed rumors about what new businesses are coming to Wesley Chapel, we have a few for you that we’re at least confident enough to announce. Continue reading

Fasano Finds New Home For Wesley Chapel Tax Collector’s Office

Pasco Tax Collector Mike Fasano's new Wesley Chapel office will be located in the currently-under-construction ComPark75.
Pasco Tax Collector Mike Fasano’s new Wesley Chapel office will be located in the currently-under-construction ComPark75.

By Matt Wiley

As we previously reported in the Wesley Chapel Neighborhood News, Pasco County tax collector Mike Fasano currently is hunting for the right space for a Wesley Chapel-area office, which he thought he had found in The Grove plaza off Oakley Blvd. However, after getting funds approved to lease The Grove, negotiations have fallen through. But, a new location has been found for the office a few miles southwest at ComPark 75.Continue reading

Prudential Tropical Joins Berkshire Hathaway

Allen Crumbley (left) and Dewey Mitchell of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group welcomed Prudential Tropical Realty into the Berkshire Hathaway family on Jan. 28.
Allen Crumbley (left) and Dewey Mitchell of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group welcomed Prudential Tropical Realty into the Berkshire Hathaway family on Jan. 28.

Prudential Tropical Realty, which for several years has had an office in Wesley Chapel (in the Shoppes of New Tampa plaza, at 1830 Bruce B. Downs {BBD} Blvd., just south of the Shops at Wiregrass mall), has joined Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, the new real estate brokerage network operated by HSF Affiliates LLC, and now operates as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group.Continue reading