SAFETY HARBOR — For the first time in nearly a decade, the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce will have a new leader, as current president and chief executive Susan Petersen announced she’s stepping down this spring. Current chamber director of member services Cammie Lumpkin is set to take ov…
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SAFETY HARBOR — For the first time in nearly a decade, the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce will have a new leader, as current president and chief executive Susan Petersen announced she’s stepping down this spring. Current chamber director of member services Cammie Lumpkin is set to take ov…
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.
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SAFETY HARBOR — A progress report on recent changes to Safety Harbor’s trash pickup schedule at the Nov. 21 City Commission meeting led to a discussion on whether it would be more feasible to contract with a private company than to continue using city workers and equipment.
SAFETY HARBOR — The name Strachan’s has been synonymous with ice cream in North Pinellas County ever since Bill and Susan Strachan opened their first shop on Alt 19 in Palm Harbor in 1999.
SAFETY HARBOR — For two decades, the Safety Harbor Wine Festival has attracted huge crowds to the downtown district, filling Main Street from Bayshore Boulevard to 8th Avenue with vino-loving revelers.
SAFETY HARBOR — Sometimes a book just speaks to you.
SAFETY HARBOR — Residents will get the opportunity to weigh in on the future of a rare piece of green space controlled by the city.
SAFETY HARBOR — Safety Harbor residents and visitors can look forward to improvements in the city’s sidewalks and bicycle paths over the next several years.
SAFETY HARBOR — For the past decade and a half, Janet Hooper’s name has been synonymous with the Mattie Williams Neighborhood Family Center, a nonprofit founded in the mid-1990s that provides food, clothes, basic goods and services to disadvantaged kids and families in the greater Safety Har…
SAFETY HARBOR — Nestled between neighborhoods off McMullen Booth Road in Safety Harbor lies a fanciful place with luscious gardens, whimsical fairies and more than 20 different species of butterflies.
SAFETY HARBOR — More than 250 people, including state and local lawmakers, business owners, and supporters of bay area nonprofit organizations, gathered outside the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch facility in Safety Harbor on May 19 for the inaugural Breakfast at the Ranch fundraiser.
Barbara Walker, director of Moccasin Lake Raptor Sanctuary, and Fairl Thomas, board secretary of Birds In Helping Hands, presented live owl ambassadors LuLu, a great horned owl, and Sir Winston Churchowl, a barred owl, at the City Commission meeting May 2 to help raise awareness and showcase…
SAFETY HARBOR — In 1972, the Oakland Athletics won the World Series. Dick Allen of the Chicago White Sox was the American League’s Most Valuable Player and Johnny Bench of the Cincinnati Reds was the National League’s MVP.
People have come from all over the United States to observe and photograph the birds. But in recent weeks, all but one of five owls in the park have died from eating poisoned rats.
SAFETY HARBOR — A local art project is bringing new life to the Ian Tilmann Skate Park through a partnership of the city, Safety Harbor Arts and Music Center, local artists and community members.
SAFETY HARBOR — Safety Harbor residents may soon see changes to the garbage pickup schedule in their neighborhoods. A staffing shortage and long waits for vehicle parts have created a challenge for the Department of Public Works.
William “Bill” Blackshear had a long history of public service in Safety Harbor. The first African American man elected to the City Commission in 1964, he was also instrumental in bringing child care services to the Lincoln Highlands area of the city.
Oldsmar and Safety Harbor have long enjoyed their relationship as sister cities sitting at the top of upper Tampa Bay, including the recent return of the long-running Mayors’ Breakfast.
SAFETY HARBOR — A record crowd packed the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa’s banquet hall on Dec. 3 as the popular Mayors’ Breakfast, a long-running event featuring the mayors of Safety Harbor and Oldsmar pouring coffee for charity, returned following a COVID cancellation in 2020.
SAFETY HARBOR — For much of this year, the future of the Safety Harbor Wine Festival was in doubt.
SAFETY HARBOR — When Jacqueline Hayes moved from Boston to Safety Harbor in 2014 to be closer to her family, she had no idea her southern relocation would be filled with attorney consultations and virtual court appearances, century-old gravesites and ground-penetrating radar.
The mosaic bench outside Melissa Haist’s Tupelo on 4th boutique in downtown Safety Harbor is 40 feet long, features more than 5,200 colorful tiles that have been dissected into thousands of smaller pieces and has taken more than six years to complete.
SAFETY HARBOR — City commissioners declined to establish an ordinance that would have designated specific roads for golf cart travel, meaning that golf carts will maintain their nebulous status in the town for the foreseeable future.
SAFETY HARBOR — When Safety Harbor leaders voted to place a pair of signs supporting the Black Lives Matter movement on the lawn in front of City Hall in the wake of George Floyd’s killing last summer, it touched off a firestorm of controversy, leading to a heated City Commission meeting and…
SAFETY HARBOR — Safety Harbor City Manager Matt Spoor was recognized during a recent City Commission meeting for receiving a pair of awards from statewide organizations.
SAFETY HARBOR — The blend of spicy aromas hits your nose as soon as you open the storefront door.
SAFETY HARBOR — As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be widely distributed, some coronavirus-related restrictions are starting to loosen up.
SAFETY HARBOR — While much attention over the past year has been paid to businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis, public facilities like libraries and community centers have also faced the brunt of the pandemic.
SAFETY HARBOR — The 2021 Safety Harbor municipal election field offered someone for everyone.
SAFETY HARBOR — There’s an old baseball saying, “You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” and that adage could easily apply to the 2021 Safety Harbor City Commission races.
SAFETY HARBOR — When the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce took over the city’s annual Seafood Festival three years ago, officials merged the popular, long-running food fest with a juried art show.
SAFETY HARBOR — Bassano Cheesecake, a handcrafted, family-owned cheesecake company, announced the opening of its first café on 507 Main St. in Safety Harbor.
Three Pinellas County fire departments have joined forces to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, as representatives from three agencies recently formed a specialized response unit dedicated to responding to COVID-19 calls.
Long before the Safety Harbor Art & Music Center opened three years ago, the creative minds behind the organization were already giving back to the community through art.
The Safety Harbor Writers & Poets have launched children's programming in recent years, including summer camps, a writing club and, now, a kids' open mic, which launches Wednesday, Dec. 4 at the Safety Harbor Art and Music Center.
David Barr has prosthetic legs, but he’s ridden his 1972 Harley Shovelhead, wide-guide Harley-Davidson more than 83,000 miles.
CLEARWATER — The man who donated cash and land to build Nova Southeastern University’s new medical campus in Clearwater said he might build housing in Safety Harbor for hundreds of the university’s students.
SAFETY HARBOR — The fifth annual Beer & Burger Throw Down returns to Safety Harbor Waterfront Park on Saturday, April 20, noon to 6 p.m., at Waterfront Park, 110 Veterans Memorial Lane, Safety Harbor.
The Richman Group of Florida Inc., will not be getting $16.5 million from the taxpayers of Pinellas County after the U.S. Supreme Court on March 25 refused to hear their arguments.
For 17 years, Church and Community Outreach operated a food pantry out of the Mattie Williams Neighborhood Family Center in Safety Harbor, serving hungry parents and children from hundreds of households.
SAFETY HARBOR — The Black Honkeys, Jeff Vitollo & the Quarter Mile Rebels, Shevonne and The Force, and other musicians are returning once again to Safety Harbor Waterfront Park on Saturday, March 2, to rock, play the blues and jam their hearts out to raise money for local children and yo…
SAFETY HARBOR – When singer-songwriter Melanie was booked to perform at the Woodstock music festival in 1969, she “pictured a pastoral scene with people on picnic blankets,” she said. “All ages, all kinds of people, all colors, a gathering of humanity.”
SAFETY HARBOR – Join the community on Thursday, Sept. 13, 6:30 p.m., at the Safety Harbor Museum and Cultural Center to kick-off Florida Stories, a self-guided walking tour app. Florida Stories allows residents and visitors to learn about the history of Safety Harbor at their own pace and on…
SAFETY HARBOR – Americans use over 500 million plastic straws every day! Plastic straws are made from fossil fuels, cannot be recycled, and do not biodegrade. Using plastic straws also threatens our marine neighbors, as each year over 100,000 marine mammals and 1 million seabirds are killed …
SAFETY HARBOR – Watermelon eaters are needed July 1 to help Safety Harbor break the Guinness World Record for “Most Participants in a Watermelon Eating Contest.”
SAFETY HARBOR – Award-winning author and journalist Jeff Klinkenberg will discuss “Son of Real Florida: Stories from My Life,” his latest book, Thursday, June 7, 6:30 p.m., at the Safety Harbor Public Library, 101 Second St. N., Safety Harbor.
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