Author: Matt Wiley

If you’ve somehow missed the last two decades+ of the annual “Arts & Crafts Under the Palms” crafts show & sale presented each year by the Tampa Palms Women’s Club, let’s just say you’ve been missing a lot of amazing crafts, fine art, kitschy household items and so much more.Continue reading

By Matt Wiley

As the sun begins to set in Hunter’s Green, periodic sirens can be heard coming from the community’s Capt. Nathaniel Hunter Park. A police tank rumbles down Highland Oak Dr. as the bomb squad’s robot examines a pipe-shaped object in the park’s parking lot.Continue reading

Even though I belong to the New Tampa Noon Rotary Club, there’s no doubt that I have been a long-time fan of New Tampa’s original Rotary Club, which still meets for breakfast every Friday morning at Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club (TPGCC).Continue reading

By Matt Wiley

The “scores” are in for the eighth annual YMCA “Saturday Night Lights,” and what a landslide victory it was! With the cheering USF Sundolls welcoming guests outside and university “fight songs” playing as guests arrived, the spirit of competition was in the air at the New Tampa Family YMCA in Tampa Palms on October 13.Continue reading

If you missed the fourth annual Wesley Chapel Fall Festival at The Grove shopping center Oct. 13-14, you missed perhaps the best year ever of this outstanding formerly-crafts-only weekend event sponsored by the Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce (WCCC).Continue reading