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The tour, a joint effort between the Indian Rocks Beach Historical Museum and IRB Action 2000, includes stops at several cottages, restaurants, the Narrows and other destinations.
REDINGTON SHORES — Discussion by the Town Commission on creating a dog park in a portion of Del Bello Park has ignited a reaction that Mayor MaryBeth Henderson said was “the most passionate and equally divided I have ever seen” in her years on the commission or living in the town.
Local traffic planners fear that proposed legislation intending to make lighted crosswalks safer for pedestrians will have the exact opposite effect.
INDIAN SHORES — The swearing-in of Mayor Patrick C. Soranno for his next three-year term by Town Attorney Regina Kardash was the first order of business at the March 23 meeting of the Indian Shores Town Council. This was followed by the election of the new vice mayor and then the designation…
ST. PETE BEACH — City manager Alex Rey opened up a can of worms over what to do with $188,000 in unused beautification funds left in the city budget when he offered a series of compromises, including one that would have the commissioner from each of the city’s four districts decide how a por…
ST. PETE BEACH — City Manager Alex Rey received unbridled praise, along with a 5% salary increase and $500 a month housing stipend, when commissioners voted unanimously to extended his employment contract another two years.
ST. PETE BEACH — The city has been forced to suspend its memorial bench program after it became the victim of its own success and popularity.
TREASURE ISLAND — Sometime by spring 2022, the eastern portion of the Treasure Island Causeway should be totally redesigned, with landscaped drainage swales, palm trees and a colorfully designed median strip.
ST. PETE BEACH — Bright and retro-colorful after a $2.6 million restoration and renovation, St. Pete Beach’s public library has recreated the mid-century modern feel designed by its original architect, Glenn Q. Johnson, famed for his 1960s “bird-cage homes.”
REDINGTON BEACH — Adieus and accolades were in abundance March 17 as longtime members of the board of commissioners were bid farewell and newly elected members were welcomed and sworn in.
TREASURE ISLAND — The local Chamber of Commerce promotes tourism and assists beach businesses to prepare for traditional hurricane season or even the occasional red tide — but no one could have envisioned helping restaurants and retail shops survive in the wake of a global pandemic.
The ghost town on the south side of John’s Pass is coming back to life. The site of the former Gator’s Café, a vacant symbol of the coronavirus pandemic, is about to become the 11th restaurant on the Beachside Hospitality Group roster, opening around mid-April under the name Crabby’s on the Pass.
ST. PETE BEACH — The Merry Pier restoration project will be $299,204 more expensive than initially anticipated when the city approved the project in April 2020.
REDINGTON SHORES — This year’s fiercely fought election race has been decided, with Mayor MaryBeth Henderson winning a new three-year term in a decisive victory over Commissioner Jeff Neal.
INDIAN SHORES — A moment of silence for the recent passing of the town’s former engineer Robert H. Brotherton and Belleair’s mayor Gary H. Katica opened the Town Council meeting on March 9. Brotherton passed away on Feb. 18 and Katica on March 7.
NORTH REDINGTON BEACH — After running unopposed, Mayor Bill Queen, Seat 1 Commissioner Richard Bennett and Seat 2 Commissioner Gary Curtis were sworn in by Town Attorney Jay Daigneault for their next two-year terms at the opening of the Mar. 11 Town Commission meeting.
TREASURE ISLAND — City commissioners soundly rejected a planning staff recommendation to deny new owners of the Tahitian Resort two variances that would allow them to remodel the 60-year-old hotel and construct a raised pool deck and tiki bar.
Shoreline protection has traditionally been accomplished through what Jack Cox calls “brute force.” Miles-long steel breakwaters. Concrete barriers. The dredging of tons of sand or, in a Pinellas County ritual, depositing sand from the depths back onto the beach. Cox’s company, Edgewater Resources, is among a new group of coastal engineering experts thinking differently.
MADEIRA BEACH — There was no election in the city this year, but there will be a new commission member.
BELLEAIR BEACH — There will be no informational sign of any type at City Hall, at least for now. The City Council decided at its March 1 meeting to reject a bid of $55,000 to construct an electronic sign.
TREASURE ISLAND — Mayor-elect Tyler Payne vowed to have the City Commission play an active role in ensuring all city departments provide the best customer service taxpayers and businesses can ask for, while improving the city’s communication skills.
More than 16,300 Pinellas County residents cast their ballots Tuesday to decide who will lead their cities and towns into the future. Highlighting the races were four mayoral posts, including three in municipalities along the beaches. Check out the results.
REDINGTON SHORES — There are two contested elections in town this year.
MADEIRA BEACH — A number of illegal signs and sign types not often seen in the city, such as murals, have focused attention on the need to update the city’s sign code.
REDINGTON SHORES — The Town Commission got a status report and evaluation of work being done to fix an aging sewer system. After four years of costly repairs, the town is still paying twice what it should for wastewater treatment, Mayor MaryBeth Henderson said at the Feb. 24 commission workshop.
ST. PETE BEACH — Owners of four lots at 2707 Pass A Grille Way have filed a lawsuit against the city that alleges a city commissioner exerted influence that caused staff to first approve, then reject their permit for a nearly $1 million dock expansion project after the work was completed.
REDINGTON BEACH — One of the biggest political events in recent Redington Beach history will take place March 9: a crowded ballot for the town’s mayor and commissioners. It’s a mix of veterans and novices, with half of the six candidates making their first try at elected office.
ST. PETE BEACH — This beach city can claim some bragging rights after not only being voted the No. 1 beach destination in the United States by travelers using Tripadvisor, but also their fifth-most favorite beach in the world.
TREASURE ISLAND — The city has strengthened its coastal lighting standards to protect sea turtle hatchlings, by specifically going after the violator rather than just the property owner.
The consensus was to get the word out to the residents of the beach towns so that citizens can let their wishes be known to their state senator and representatives.
NORTH REDINGTON BEACH — The utilities undergrounding project that began with former Mayor Harold Radcliffe in 2000 is still in progress today, with current Mayor Bill Queen expecting a completion date of 2025. A discussion of the mammoth undergrounding project of the entire town was the cent…
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH — There is another restaurant on the way for this beachside town.
INDIAN SHORES — For the first time since last March, the Indian Shores Town Council meeting took place completely in person at Town Hall on Feb. 9 rather than in a Zoom or hybrid meeting. Not only was the in-person setting a plus — although participants were masked and socially distanced — b…
REDINGTON SHORES — A new law that could let homeowners do more repairs or renovations to their homes over a shorter period of time without having to meet expensive new home construction requirements was passed by the town commission on first reading at its Feb. 10 meeting.
ST. PETE BEACH — When it comes to preventing street flooding now and in the future, this city will undertake a “comprehensive water threats protection strategy,” utilizing input from five engineering firms who will make recommendations on how to address flooding from both the Gulf and bay du…
ST. PETE BEACH — Commissioners decided to play hardball with developers of the first major hotel to be proposed in St. Pete Beach in at least five years, The Miramar Beach Resort at 4200 Gulf Blvd.
MADEIRA BEACH — Caddy’s Madeira Beach, the city’s first and only full-service restaurant and bar located on the beach side of Gulf Boulevard, should be opening soon.
MADEIRA BEACH — Tampa Bay Markets will team up with the city of Madeira Beach Recreation Department to revamp the Madeira Beach Wednesday Market and give it a fresh start.
REDINGTON BEACH — Residents here will vote on a slate of candidates for the Town Commission in March, including mayor, but the result will leave one commission position empty. If you live in Redington Beach, you could possibly fill that void.
REDINGTON BEACH — Americans have avoided the risk of public events and turned to the safety of their digital devices, affecting everything from Sunday sermons to birthday parties. And for residents of Redington Beach, the coronavirus pandemic has limited their ability to hear from candidates…
TREASURE ISLAND — Commissioners here embraced the idea to join four other beach communities to restructure the interlocal agreement that governs and funds the Gulf Beaches Library.
MADEIRA BEACH — Saying they are “all over town,” are “dangerous” and “need to be regulated,” Mayor John Hendricks came down hard on electric bicycles and scooters at the city commission’s Jan. 27 workshop meeting.
ST. PETE BEACH — Experience serving as a member of the city’s planning board since 2019 gave Mark Grill, a candidate vying to fill the city commission seat vacated by District 2 Commissioner Doug Izzo, the upper hand over another candidate, Rachel Ciliberti.
REDINGTON SHORES — The town commission has suspended one of its members. In a special meeting on Feb. 1, the commission voted 3-0 to suspend District 2 Commissioner Jeff Neal without pay for “electioneering,” which is prohibited in Town Hall, and making misleading and untrue statements of a …
REDINGTON SHORES — There are two contested election races in town this year.
A bald eagle that was found severely injured in early December was back in the sky last week as staffers and supporters of the Seaside Seabird Sanctuary set the majestic creature free. Seminole resident Richard Rushing and his wife, Alisa, found the bird in their naturally-kept yard on 74th …
REDINGTON BEACH — The beautiful shoreline of Redington Beach may have a small role in this year’s Super Bowl pregame activities.
REDINGTON SHORES — Controversy erupted at the Jan. 19 commission meeting over “several minor changes” proposed by the town attorney to a recently enacted law governing short-term vacation rentals, which are allowed in the Commercial Tourist Facility (CTF) zoning district.
TREASURE ISLAND — An arborist advised city commissioners that Rosselli Park’s popular old bottle brush tree — which the Recreation Department wanted to send to the chopping block — is nearing the end of its life cycle, but is also “salvageable.”
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH — City employees will receive a 3% raise that was postponed by COVID-19 uncertainties.
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For the third consecutive week, COVID-19 cases increased in Pinellas County. Florida Department of Health reported 1,679 new cases and five more deaths during the week of April 5-11, bringing the case count to 75,108 and the death toll to 1,565.
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