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.

After smoothly sailing through its one-year pilot program, Dunedin city commissioners approved a three-year extension with Clearwater Ferry Services to operate waterborne transportation between the city marina and Clearwater Beach. City officials visualize the ferry providing alternative transportation to city events, or someday offering trips to Caladesi Island.

DUNEDIN — From looking at her dazzling smile, and knowing about her athletic conquests, one would never guess Wendy Collins Hoogsteden was one of the estimated 780,000 people in the U.S. who suffered from the excruciating painful effects of Crohn’s Disease or was one of the 907,000 who was a…

DUNEDIN — After several hours of wrestling with design concepts, city commissioners agreed that a new 37,445-square-foot City Hall-Municipal Services Complex and Technical Services Building should be built on the east side of city-owned property bounded by Milwaukee Avenue, Virginia Street, …

DUNEDIN — Sometime during next spring break, visitors to downtown Dunedin may be surprised to see a driverless mini-bus ambling along Main Street.

CLEARWATER — For the second time in three years and seventh in program history, Dunedin baseball is heading to states.

DUNEDIN — City officials are frustrated over some “one-sided” media reports stemming from foreclosure action taken against a property owner who has accrued almost $30,000 in unpaid code-enforcement fines.

It felt like winning the World Series for city officials and the Toronto Blue Jays as they broke ground on an extensive modernization project for Dunedin Stadium and put plans into motion to transform the Vanech Sports Complex into a state-of-the-art baseball training center.

The city of Dunedin took on the Chamber of Commerce in a softball game held in conjunction with the groundbreaking of the new Dunedin Stadium set for next week.

DUNEDIN — After enjoying 30 years as a successful attorney handling health care law, and addressing senior citizen, women’s and employment issues in New Jersey, Theo Tamborlane decided to relocate to Dunedin to reflect all the images she had seen and emotion she felt on canvas.