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Devon Crumpacker is a Tampa Bay based writer and reporter for Extensive Enterprises Media. He primarily covers Pinellas County politics for SaintPetersblog.com, but also makes time to write the occasional bar review for FloridaBarTab.com. He lives in St. Petersburg with his fiance, Sydney. To contact, e-mail [email protected], or visit his Twitter page @DevonCrumpacker.

Police Athletic League opens new facility in midtown St. Pete

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Florida’s heavy June sun was shining down on the 20th Street Church of Christ in Midtown St. Pete yesterday afternoon, as church ministers and parishioners got together with the community, city officials and the St. Petersburg Police Athletic League (PAL) to celebrate the announcement a new youth facility. For the foreseeable future, the evangelist church’s 750-square-foot former sanctuary will be PAL’s South St. Pete headquarters. “This is a great day and a great opportunity for the police department,” said assistant police chief James Previtera. “As…

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South St. Pete Rehabilitation Center partners with Chamber’s LSP class of 2015

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Afternoon rain drove a crowd of roughly 40 people inside Suncoast Center’s South St. Pete offices for a ceremonial ribbon cutting this past Wednesday, June 10. The event was held to publicly announce Leadership St. Pete’s contributions to Suncoast Center, a 71-year-old nonprofit Pinellas County rehabilitation organization that, in 2014, provided healthy lifestyle services for nearly 30,000 children and adults throughout the area. “Leadership St. Pete class of 2015 […] thank you so much,” said Suncoast Center Chief Operating Officer…

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Pinellas County Commission examines implementing 22 new fees

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The Pinellas County Commission reviewed and discussed a total of 22 county-wide fee proposals for their 2016 fiscal year budget Tuesday, June 9, during a two-hour budget information session. The proposed changes are projected to increase Pinellas County’s yearly revenue by over $70,000. New Fees The county’s Animal Services division, part of the county’s General Fund, saw three new fees proposed. A $25 minimum medical therapy fee for pet owners whose animals were brought into shelters was proposed to recover shelter costs associated with medical therapy…

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Pinellas behavioral health programs recommended for over a million in funding

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Pinellas County Commission’s Behavioral Health Pilot Program, and two related programs, were quietly recommended for over a million dollars worth of funding by the Commission at its June 4 budget session — the final budget session before the start of the 2016 fiscal year. The Behavioral Health Pilot Program’s ultimate goal is to stabilize the county’s “high-utilizers,” or those who most frequently utilize local and county mental health services. The program will incorporate “engagement, housing, and intensive treatment,” for 33 high…

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Summer’s here, so fertilizer’s gone

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Summer rains are here, and with them, residential and urban runoff. Each summer these runoffs carry surface-level pollutants into Florida’s waterways. And arguably none are more environmentally detrimental than the nitrogen and phosphorus found in fertilizer. Pinellas County and surrounding areas, to counteract the problem, have enacted a summer fertilizer ban. Be Floridian, a service of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, is spearheading an accompanying awareness campaign. From June 1 to Sept. 30 the organization is championing various alternative lawn-care…

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Optimism and prudence on the road to redevelopment in South St. Pete

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Pinellas County commissioners on Tuesday gave the nod to an ambitious revitilization plan for St. Petersburg’s Southside neighborhood. Roughly 7.5 square miles of concrete jungle, mainly South St. Pete’s — Fourth Street to 49th Street and Second Avenue N to 30th Avenue S — were approved for a Southside Community Redevelopment Plan at the commission’s June 2 meeting. Ultimately, annual property-tax-hike-dollars will go toward kick-starting various privately invested renewal projects throughout the designated area to fight two familiar foes — blight and poverty…

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Rowdies lose new midfielder to El Salvadorian nat’l team for summer

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The Tampa Bay Rowdies’ newly acquired midfielder, Richard Menjivar, will miss the rest of the Rowdies’ spring season, and presumably the beginning of their fall season, to join the El Salvadorian national team for the summer. La Selecta, as the team is affectionately known, will be preparing for and playing in both Gold Cup and World Cup qualifiers over the next couple months. Their first match will be a friendly against Chile this Friday, June 5, the day before the…

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