by Waveney Ann Moore on July 20, 2018 at 8:51 pm

ST. PETERSBURG - Pinellas County School board chair Rene Flowers was fired up Friday. She talked about growing up in Jordan Park, the city's first public housing project and a sentimental and historic marker of St. Petersburg's African-American community.She spoke of residents forced to […]

by McKenna Oxenden on July 18, 2018 at 3:38 pm

For years as a guidance counselor at St. Petersburg High, Carolyn Harris Nelson helped scores of students navigate their way toward their next steps in life.One of them was Ryan Halstead, now an assistant principal at the school, who recalls that Mrs. Nelson played an integral role in his […]

by Waveney Ann Moore on July 17, 2018 at 6:24 pm

ST. PETERSBURG - Nick Ekonomou, the South Florida developer who has owned the deteriorating former YMCA building in downtown since 2015, has come up with a potential new design for the historic Mediterranean Revival-style property.The former football player has talked about turning t […]

by Divya Kumar on July 16, 2018 at 10:43 pm

ST. PETERSBURG - He was known as "Captain Dan" and the "Eye in the Sky" for delivering his daily traffic reports from the two-seat plane he flew over Tampa Bay's clogged interstates.Daniel Lunin's real legacy, though, was built on the ground.He was a skilled, talented and […]

by By Sheila Mullane Estrada, Times Correspondent on July 16, 2018 at 6:38 pm

ST. PETE BEACH - Parking in this popular beach city already is more expensive than a month ago, and the cost is about to go up even more, particularly for those who park illegally.The City Commission at its meeting Tuesday is expected to increase parking fines by an average of 50 percent. […]

by Susan Taylor Martin on July 13, 2018 at 11:59 am

ST. PETERSBURG - In the past few years, Michael Andoniades has turned two faded hotels - the Hollander and the Avalon - into two of St. Petersburg's trendiest, most popular lodgings. So it is with mixed feelings that residents of the city's Historic Uptown district have reacted to news […]

by By Sheila Mullane Estrada, Times Correspondent on July 10, 2018 at 9:29 pm

MADEIRA BEACH - Jonathan Evans has made substantial changes since he took over as city manager in February, and his proposed $9.6 million operating budget for 2018-19 promises to deliver more of the same. Amid political turmoil, Evans began his new job by issuing an "open letter" to t […]

by Waveney Ann Moore on July 6, 2018 at 3:48 pm

ST. PETERSBURG - It appears the city will get to brag about its very own Janet Echelman sculpture after all.Mayor Rick Kriseman has raised $1.5 million private donations to install a piece by the internationally acclaimed artist on the St. Petersburg waterfront.Mayoral spokesman […]

by Times staff on July 5, 2018 at 10:44 pm

ST. PETERSBURGGroup to focus on needs of marginalized residentsAn Ad Hoc Housing Team has been formed to assess the housing needs of elderly LGBTQ and disabled residents and how they might be met.The group will hold its first meeting 7 p.m. […]

by By Diane Craig, Special to the Times on July 3, 2018 at 10:19 pm

Ybor City in the late 1980s was ablaze with ovens and molten glass. One artist, Chuck Bove, opened his hot shop to anyone interested in learning the art of glassblowing. A young Tampa native named Owen Pach took him up on the offer - and burned through a 32-year obsession with molten silica that […]