ST. PETE BEACH — The weather conditions in January in Florida really couldn’t be more conducive to outdoor activities. It’s the perfect time for a stroll on the beach, or shopping for unique and handcrafted fine art and crafts at an outdoor festival.
ST. PETE BEACH — The weather conditions in January in Florida really couldn’t be more conducive to outdoor activities. It’s the perfect time for a stroll on the beach, or shopping for unique and handcrafted fine art and crafts at an outdoor festival.
TARPON SPRINGS — Instead of spending the entire weekend sinking deeper and deeper into the living room furniture while eating chicken wings and watching bowl games, ring in the new year with a brand new two-day outdoor festival.
ST. PETE BEACH — For those looking to avoid packed parking lots, long checkout lines, and crowded shopping aisles typically found in shopping malls and big box stores during the holiday shopping season, there’s a popular outdoor alternative available this weekend.
ST. PETERSBURG — Florida CraftArt will present the 24th annual CraftArt Festival Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 20-21, just outside the doors of the Florida CraftArt Gallery, 501 Central Ave., St. Petersburg.
LARGO — The Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County (DOH-Pinellas) has issued a health alert for the presence of harmful blue-green algal toxins in Eagle Lake Park (Lake #2), 1800 Keene Road in Largo.
SEMINOLE — September will see the return of a favorite series of outdoor concerts in Seminole.
Megan Eakins is leading more than just an organization dedicated to clean water in Tampa Bay.
ST. PETERSBURG — The Sunken Gardens Forever Foundation recently announced gifts of $120,000 in support of Sunken Gardens' new history center. The long-awaited history center is being created in the historic former entrance to the Sunken Gardens, which once faced 18th Avenue Northeast.
For the first time in since June, Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission reported zero water samples with bloom concentrations of the red tide organism taken offshore or alongshore Pinellas County.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported improvement in red tide conditions in Tampa Bay; however, the same can’t be said for Pinellas County’s beaches.
Hurricane Elsa, which passed offshore Pinellas County’s Gulf coast July 6-7, did nothing to help the red tide situation, especially in southern parts of the county and along Tampa Bay.
DUNEDIN — Finally: The long-awaited return of the fine craft artisanship will bring more than 100 crafters to Dunedin for the 18th annual Downtown Dunedin Craft Festival.
A patchy bloom of red tide offshore Pinellas County has resulted in reports of respiratory irritation and dead fish coming in from locations stretching from Fort De Soto in Tierra Verde north to Honeymoon Island in Dunedin, as well as in the Intracoastal Waterway and Boca Ciega Bay.
As effects of red tide continue to move north along Pinellas County’s Gulf coast, officials are beginning efforts to clean up dead fish and other marine life from local beaches.
Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County is cautioning beachgoers about possible effects from a patchy bloom of red tide reported in and offshore parts of the county’s Gulf coast.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has been reporting a patchy bloom of the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, for the past several weeks. Concentrations in Pinellas had not been worrisome.
ST. PETE BEACH — American Craft Endeavors, producer of some of the region’s finest juried art shows and craft festivals, will help usher in summer by bringing skilled crafters from around the country to Pinellas for a two-day free event.
SAFETY HARBOR — Philippe Park, 2525 Philippe Parkway in Safety Harbor, reopened at noon Thursday, June 3, after it was closed temporarily due to a black bear sighting by a park ranger.
SAFETY HARBOR — Philippe Park, 2525 Philippe Parkway in Safety Harbor, is temporarily closed due to the sighting of a black bear.
Groundbreaking is expected to begin within the next two months on a Children’s Discovery Garden that will allow kids to experience nature and teach them to be good stewards of the environment.
City of Seminole officials held a ribbon-cutting at Waterfront Park March 3, officially opening its playground to children of all mobilities.
PALM HARBOR — Historic Palm Harbor will once again serve as the setting for the Palm Harbor Craft Festival, happening Saturday and Sunday, March 6-7, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Florida Avenue in Palm Harbor.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is reminding property owners to check your home and other man-made structures for bats. If you find any, you still have time to exclude them before bat maternity season begins.
GULFPORT — The 16th annual Pink Flamingo Tour of Gardens will take place Saturday, March 6, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ST. PETERSBURG — The eighth annual St. Petersburg Fine Art Festival will be presented Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 27-28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., in South Straub Park, 198 Bayshore Drive NE, St. Petersburg.
DUNEDIN — In a letter dated Jan. 22, Eric MacNeill, president of the Dunedin Scottish Arts Foundation, announced the cancellation of the 2021 Dunedin Highland Games and Festival. The event had been tentatively scheduled for April.
CLEARWATER — There’s great news for seniors who have enjoyed a lifetime of fishing and want to keep on angling now that they have time to fish: You don’t have to be rich and, regardless of the kind of fishing you do, you don’t have to pay for a Florida fishing license.
Tampa Bay’s winter has arrived, and along with it comes seasonal highs of 75 degrees, with cool breezes and sunny skies.
ST. PETE BEACH — Searching for something unique and out of the ordinary? Something creative, made by hand with meticulous attention to detail and an artistic flair? Look no further: American Craft Endeavors will bring its two-day juried outdoor showcase to a South Pinellas beach community th…
ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay area is preparing for a stampede: More than 70 animatronic dinosaurs are ready and raring to return from extinction and lay siege to St. Petersburg starting on New Year’s Day.
CLEARWATER — The Nancy and David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre will present “The Office! A Murder Mystery Parody: Who Is the Scranton Strangler?”
ST. PETE BEACH — If the idea of spending time competing for parking spaces and weaving through crowded shopping malls strikes you as particularly unpleasant this holiday season, an alternative destination will be available this weekend.
SEMINOLE — One of the key elements of the new Waterfront Park is now open for residents to enjoy.
Several recreational and commercial stone crab regulation changes go into effect, just in time for the Oct. 15 season start date. Florida’s stone crab fishery has experienced a long-term decline in harvest and is likely undergoing overfishing. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissio…
LARGO — The Florida Botanical Gardens Foundation will not be hosting its annual Holiday Lights in the Gardens event this year.
DUNEDIN — It was not the first time — and probably not the last — that a plan to develop land considered to be environmentally sensitive has drawn stiff opposition in the community.
ST. PETERSBURG — St. Petersburg resident Patrick Bradley says he has a little more work to do with his therapy program before he actually “officially” retires.
ST. PETERSBURG — In these unprecedented times, the SHINE St. Petersburg Mural Festival is adapting to meet the challenges that St. Petersburg, and many cities around the globe, are facing. And now, more than ever, organizers recognize the critical need to nurture the arts, celebrate our reco…
According to Agriculture and Consumer Commissioner Nikki Fried, murder hornets can not yet be added to Florida’s bingo card of absurdity for 2020.
CLEARWATER — There aren’t many dolphins who can call a 1.5 million-gallon state-of-the-art habitat home, but Clearwater has at least five who can.
CLEARWATER — If you’re a fan of Winter the dolphin, the Clearwater Marine Aquarium is offering a new way to immerse yourself in the nonprofit’s mission to care for marine life in Tampa Bay.
CLEARWATER — A male dolphin — Clearwater Marine Aquarium’s newest resident — recently got a name, with a little help from the public and Nicholas, another male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
By now, most of us have experience wearing a mask into sparsely-populated public places and veering away from other masked patrons to maintain the recommended social distance. It can be unsettling to be veered away from because it creates the creepy feeling that one is contagious.
Black skimmers are returning to Indian Shores and Indian Rocks Beach, and they will soon be choosing their nesting site in a colony of up to 300 individuals. These seabirds are colonial and make “scrapes,” or small depressions, in the sand. Each pair will have 3-4 well-camouflaged eggs, and …
CLEARWATER — Clearwater Marine Aquarium recently was selected by National Marine Fisheries Service to be the forever home to a new rescued male dolphin. The new dolphin will provide a companion for CMA rescued resident Nicholas, another male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
TAMPA — Aligned with the state’s phased approach and all public health directives, the Florida Aquarium recently announced that it will reopen to the public Friday, May 15.
UPDATE: May 2
LARGO — Despite Gov. Ron DeSantis’ statewide safer-at-home order, Pinellas County parks remain open during the COVID-19 outbreak, giving residents a place to stretch their legs — as long as they comply with orders to maintain a 6-foot distance between themselves and others.
Another week of postcard perfect weather has it feeling more like June than the beginning of April. A cold front this week is just what we need to keep this spring going.
It should come as no surprise that the fishing in our local waters both inshore and offshore is absolutely great right now. Perfect weather every day for two weeks will do that for you. Kingfish and Spanish mackerel are schooled up thick just offshore countywide and inshore snook, redfish, p…
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Dr. Ulyee Choe, director of the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas, said 11,000 new COVID-19 cases had been reported last week, compared to only 573 three weeks ago.
