138,000 dollar Fireworks Displays
 

Come on out and see your Wildwood tax money blown up on New Years!

A $138,000 contract with Zambelli Fireworks to provide a 20-minute display on July 3 this year and a seven-minute display for New Year’s, possibly at midnight.
That’s about 5 thousand dollars a minute!

I think it is great they are offering entertainment on the holidays.

Excellent! Can’t wait

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The City of Wildwood will host its first-ever New Year’s fireworks show and outdoor party from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 29 at Millennium Park.

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Great news!

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We loved the Fireworks display last summer and looking forward to watching again next year! Thank you

Where the best place to watch

WOW ! Enjoy fireworks shows but that's some tab ! Oh, well, as long as it's "other people's money"....LOL...not "ours"....LOL ! Careful who you vote for locally perhaps ?

Most normal little towns and cities have these displays.


Didn’t see the cost explained in the news article?

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Professional fireworks require professional pyrotechnicians, mortars, the fire department, the police department, ambulances and rescue vehicles in the immediate vicinity on stand-by, security officials and public works department officials and employees to provide safety and crowd control, traffic control, and parking enforcement.

Under $200k is pretty good for a July 4 fireworks display. Up north it's much more expensive.

You rock, wildwood!!!!!!!!

Zambelli's always give a good show. I can't wait.

Sounds as important as the hundreds of thousands of dollars we spend on pretty flowers

Love a good firework display.
Petty cash, compared to the other amounts councils send up in smoke each year.

Flowers last waaaaaay longer than fireworks. Flowers and plants are a necessity to my spirit, while I can definitely do without fireworks. To each their own!

It's part of "Small Town America".

It is less than $1 for the Villagers to watch

Most Villagers are not in Wildwood.

How nice for all you people who enjoy the sound of war, me... I'll be thinking of the misery it's causing most of the terrified animals and veterans.... who will spend 20 minutes suffering. I'll ache for the pets, who won't survive. Have fun!

Fireworks make people happy!

Totally agree.

Also it is better to have the display at one location, as opposed to the thoughtless airheads that light off fireworks in their villages, where retired combat veterans & frightened animals live. Hopefully it lessens that.

Happy New Year! Fireworks are always celebratory!

Try putting your pet in a room with the radio or TV turned up to drown out the sound of the fireworks. Also there’s a comforting type of jacket that you can buy for your pet to help soothe your pet and keep him calm during the fireworks. Finally you can call your vet to prescribe a tranquilizer to calm and sedate your pet. If you think about it it’s only about an hour a year between the 4th of July and NYE.

The Grinch stole Christmas, not New Year's.

What are the best locations from which to view the fireworks?

Can’t wait makes me happy to have fireworks to celebrate America’s birthday and keep traditions alive! Thank you Wildwood!

Thanks for reminding us, we’ll be there. Should be a great time!!!

That could help fund care for lost pets!

Well I guess the OP’s backfired. Pardon the pun.

Wonderful Idea to provide entertainment on Holidays. I wish TV would follow suit. It is sad that they do not have a countdown to the new year in one of the squares.

People need some relief from the stress of life. I think it wonderful to find something to celebrate..

I bet those watching have a better time than someone thinking about misery..

Lady Lake puts on a display too.

We Villagers need to remember that the town of Wildwood existed long before we arrived. The people who have called Wildwood their home are as entitled to their celebrations and traditions as we are entitled to ours. These people have seen a big change in their way of life because of us. I suggest that instead of complaining we celebrate with them as we are so fortunate to live here. Happy New Year!

Did we forget? Light 'em if you've got 'em

Florida firework laws: Here's what you should know

Sounds like a great way to bring in the New Year!!

Unless you are a Florida/Wildwood native, wherever you migrated from must have had fireworks. Did you question/complain then? I think not. Cost per minute is irrelevant. What is the cost per resident? Stop nit picking and go enjoy the bringing in of the New Year!

Not for long...currently about 25% of the homes in The Villages are in Wildwood, about half of the number of homes in unincorporated Sumter County. With all the new villages announced in the south that are in Wildwood, that gap is going to close quickly!

If y’all try to go for this fireworks display on NYE you’ll have missed it by 2 nights since it’s happening on 12/29. ;)

“The City of Wildwood will host its first-ever New Year's fireworks show and outdoor party at Millennium Park, the site of the Wildwood Community Center, 6500 Powell Road, on Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, from 6 to 9 p.m.”