Dunedin Express returns

DUNEDIN — Concerns about whether to use artificial turf to remodel John Lawrence Pioneer Park and if a two-stall restroom should be added to the design concept were among topics discussed at a recent Community Redevelopment Agency meeting.

Annual Dunedin Celtic Music & Craft Beer Festival draws a large crowd to Highlander Park.

DUNEDIN — Music has always played a big part in Stephen Allen’s life. Not just any type tunes, but rather the specialized harmonies of the pipe organ and voice choir.

DUNEDIN — City commissioners will get a chance to weigh in on proposed design concepts for the new City Hall-Municipal Services Complex during a special work session Monday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m.

PALM HARBOR — Cindy Redmond has been donating blood and platelets for almost 30 years in Tampa Bay. On Oct. 28, she achieved her 100-gallon donor milestone, having helped to save hundreds of lives and families along the way

St. Francis of Assisi, Old Catholic Church finds home

October brings out the ghost, goblins and haunted stories to celebrate Halloween on Oct 31. Dunedin is no exception, playing tricks and treats and celebrating Halloween or “All Hallows Eve Night” as long as we have been a town since 1899.

DUNEDIN — Name this town: It’s the oldest settlement on the west coast of Florida between Cedar Key and Key West and was home to Pinellas County’s first radio station.

DUNEDIN — As a student in the University of Tampa’s entrepreneurial program, last year Belicia Adams was tasked with creating a concept for a new business. When she began brainstorming ideas for the project, she knew she wanted to focus on two areas: art and giving back to the community.

DUNEDIN — Gregory Brady proves you don’t have to be a city commissioner to initiate great change and get things accomplished in Dunedin — you just have to dedicate yourself to be involved in the community.

DUNEDIN — Projects that include the possibility of converting Stirling Links Golf Course into a city park and building a fire-training facility, an aquatics center and new dog park are all included in a five-year municipal business plan designed to meet the Dunedin’s “five epic goals.”

DUNEDIN — One thing most people could agree on at a town hall on architectural design concepts for the new City Hall-Municipal Services complex was that they did not want an institutionalized, government-looking building.

Local fans of the Toronto Blue Jays and visitors from Canada have a lot to look forward to this spring. The team will be playing in a stadium and training facility that have been renovated to the tune of $102 million, a project that has the team’s director of Florida operations “extremely excited” about the team’s future here.

DUNEDIN — It’s been two years since hitting rock bottom — Sept. 28, 2017.

DUNEDIN — Local author Kip Koelsch has won a national book award for his latest novel, “Delphys Rising.”

DUNEDIN — City officials plan to maintain the same property tax rate that has been in effect since fiscal year 2016.

DUNEDIN — For decades, the city of Dunedin’s Parks & Recreation Department oversaw the Dunedin Concert Band. The informally organized band was founded in 1981, but never existed as a legal entity of its own. This all changed in 2014, when Stephen P. Brown, previously director of the Clea…

Construction on one of the largest commercial development projects ever to take place along Main Street in downtown Dunedin, The Courtyard on Main, is scheduled to begin in August. Construction is designed to take place in two phases, with the opening of the building planned for the fall of 2021.

DUNEDIN — Mayor Julie Ward Bujalski believes that the county’s transportation infrastructure needs to be improved to keep up with the increase in tourists coming to the area.

DUNEDIN — Revised plans for a new City Hall and municipal services complex, with a shorter parking garage and potential room for a privately owned cinema bistro restaurant, were further tweaked at the June 20 City Commission meeting.

During the 1880s through the early 1900s in Dunedin, many wealthy and prominent families lived on a ruddy unpaved dirt road by the water’s edge of St. Josephs Sound known as Victoria Drive. Many locals were acquainted with the Joneses, Skinners, Somervilles, Hannas and the McMasters, who are…

DUNEDIN — The 10th annual Dunedin Orange Festival, a benefit for the Dunedin Historical Museum and the Dunedin Chamber Cultural & Educational Foundation, will be held Saturday, July 13, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Edgewater Park next to the downtown marina.