CLEARWATER — Realtor Dimitri Karides with Sand Key Realty will offer an update on new legislation impacting condo owners on Tuesday, March 28, 6-8 p.m., at the Island Way Grill, 20 Island Way, Clearwater Beach.

Home goods retailer Tuesday Morning is closing stores across the nation — including ones in Seminole and Clearwater.

CLEARWATER — The politically messy decision of whether City Council members should get paid more to serve the public is, for the moment, out of the hands of the five people who occupy those seats.

CLEARWATER — Less than one hour into the City Council’s budget workshop the morning of March 20, Mayor Frank Hibbard said he was concerned about the direction his colleagues were taking the city, packed his briefcase and resigned from the dais.

CLEARWATER — Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church will mark the 100th year of its founding in a special history and worship celebration Sunday, March 26, at 10:30 a.m.

ST. PETERSBURG — Valspar Championship is billed as “the most colorful event on the PGA Tour,” and the Palm Harbor tournament’s title sponsor has taken the splashes of color seen throughout Innisbrook Golf Resort into the community via Valspar’s “Be Bright” murals program.

CLEARWATER — The long-anticipated opening of Imagine Clearwater, the city’s $84 million renovation of the downtown waterfront, will kick off on June 28 with a week of events.

CLEARWATER — The sudden death of an 8-year-old dolphin on March 6 made for a grim statistic at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

CLEARWATER — Countryside High School recently hosted the 30th annual Senior Soccer Challenge, and the longstanding tradition of pitting the top high school seniors from neighboring counties turned into a Hillsborough sweep — 5-0 for the girls and 5-1 in the boys’ favor.

CLEARWATER — A Jeep pulls out of the Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center and starts to turn onto Highland Avenue when a protester rushes the driver’s door with a sign above his head.

The Sound will be the name of the new entertainment venue now under construction in Clearwater’s Coachman Park. And Chicago, Kenny Loggins, country hitmaker Billy Currington and the Goo Goo Dolls have been lined up to add star power after it opens in June.

CLEARWATER — The City Council on March 2 named Jennifer Poirrier as their choice to be city manager, elevating her from an interim role and scrapping what would have been a third national search in two years to fill the job.

Mariella Drossos and Zita Molnar, who skate for the Clearwater Cyclones and are part of the Florida Alliance girls hockey program, may not be ready to join the pro women’s hockey ranks just yet.

Art installed at Crest Lake Park

CLEARWATER — Who can afford to serve in elected office for Tampa Bay’s third-largest city?

Fans attending the Philadelphia Phillies’ spring training opener were greeted by a scorching hot sun and long concession lines, as temperatures hit the mid-80s and a game against the New York Yankees produced a packed house at BayCare Ballpark.

CLEARWATER — City officials confirmed Feb. 16 that a recycling breach they initially thought lasted for six months is actually a systemic failure that was occurring for at least four years.

Yates will be feted

CLEARWATER — When Clearwater officials discovered on Jan. 6 that the city had failed to recycle any of the materials it picked up from residents since June, they initially offered a straightforward explanation.

CLEARWATER — When Beth Tasis first started working for the Arc Tampa Bay in 2000, she had dreams of becoming a psychiatric nurse practitioner and thought her job as a group home manager would be temporary.

Home Watch retains accreditation

CLEARWATER — Citing the need to regain public trust, the City Council is considering issuing refunds to residents for the six months that officials failed to recycle any materials collected from homes.

CLEARWATER — Truck Day signifies the start of spring in Pinellas County as much as the onset of daily rain showers and college kids flocking to Clearwater Beach each March.

CLEARWATER — The last place you might expect to find a diner is in a busy shopping mall. But the owners of the Bacon Street Diner say that is exactly why they chose their location inside Countryside Mall in Clearwater. 

CLEARWATER — Citing the need to regain public trust, the City Council is considering issuing refunds to residents for the six months that officials failed to recycle any materials collected from homes.

CLEARWATER — Clearwater Marine Aquarium on Jan. 23 announced that Hemingway, a dolphin rescued off Fiesta Key in 2019, died early that morning.

100 Women aid Hero To A Child

CLEARWATER — Clearwater has failed to process any residential recyclable materials since last July, a major lapse that led to the resignation of the city’s solid waste assistant director this week, officials confirmed Jan. 12.

CLEARWATER — City officials took the first step on Jan. 12 toward what they hope will be an economic renaissance in the North Greenwood neighborhood.

CLEARWATER — The Clearwater Historical Society held an opening reception for “Clearwater Salutes Our Coast Guard,” an exhibit honoring the city’s longstanding ties to the U.S. Coast Guard, on Jan. 14. 

SAFETY HARBOR — For the first time in a long while, there’s no need for a local municipal election: Incumbent Mayor Joe Ayoub and Commissioner Carlos Diaz each earned automatic reappointments after no one filed to run against them.

SAFETY HARBOR — Like his good friend Louis Kinney, Harbor Bar owner Jon Zemzicki has always been quick to host a fundraiser benefit or concert at his Main Street establishment whenever needed. 

SAFETY HARBOR — In Safety Harbor, Whistle Stop Grill and Bar has a long history. For years, it was an ice cream shop. Then it became a neighborhood restaurant.

SAFETY HARBOR — A new exhibit at the Safety Harbor Art and Music Center is unlike anything the center has done before, and challenges observers to use their imagination.

Three weeks after a majority of City Council members indicated their desire to part ways with City Manager Jon Jennings, they finalized his firing Jan. 5 and divulged more details about their loss of trust over his failure to prepare them for important initiatives and lack of communication.

GOP sets ‘Pearls and Girls’

CLEARWATER — Clearwater nonprofits and service providers can now apply for $3.15 million in grants from the city’s federal COVID-19 relief funding through Feb 15.

SHINE volunteers needed 

CLEARWATER — Beth Tasis has been selected as the new executive director of The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation.

CLEARWATER — When Clearwater City Council members evaluated City Manager Jon Jennings on Nov. 17, they gave no indication of the shake-up that would occur just four weeks later.

CLEARWATER — Seven months after the City Council chose Ruth Eckerd Hall to manage its new downtown waterfront amphitheater, the city has finalized a contract for what both sides get in the deal.

CLEARWATER — City Council members voted 3-2 on Dec. 15 to begin the process of firing City Manager Jon Jennings a little more than a year after they hired him.