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St. Pete Chamber of Commerce celebrates 2015 as year of successes, looks to 2016

Published on January 29, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

The St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated a productive 2015 during its annual meeting Thursday night at Mahaffey Theater. Batons were passed. Backs were patted. New ideas were shared. The meeting hosted more than 1,000 Chamber members in an ornate format. The stage was set with LED illuminated podiums and laser light blocks on each side with a giant screen zoomed in on 2015 Chamber Chairman Bill Ulbricht as he handed the gavel over to his successor, Greg Holden. “In…

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Here’s what to expect in St. Pete City Council’s bike share discussion

Published on January 28, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

The St. Petersburg City Council will likely set a date Thursday to decide whether to fund the first phase of a bike-share program in the city. At a council workshop, city staff is set to deliver a more than 60-page slideshow laying out how the program will work, how much it will cost, where bikes would be available, and benefits likely to be achieved. But don’t wait for the meeting to get those details. According to Evan Mory, the city’s…

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St. Pete Yacht Club friends its Cuban equivalent

Published on January 25, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

As St. Petersburg officials continue to make a case for becoming home to a Cuban consulate, the St. Petersburg Yacht Club entered into a friendship agreement with the Hemingway International Yacht Club of Cuba this past weekend. A photo posted on St. Pete Yacht Club’s Facebook page shows Commodore Richard Winning smiling and shaking hands with the Cuban club’s Commodore José Miguel Díaz Escrich. Since his 2015 visit to the island nation, St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman has made attracting…

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Rick Kriseman says state of St. Pete “strong and sunny”

Published on January 23, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman didn’t have any major announcements at Saturday’s State of the City address. Instead, his focus was on improving conditions in South St. Pete. For the first half of his half-hour speech, Kriseman spoke about how to improve education, lower crime, and increase opportunity in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. After a requisite thanks to City Council, city staff, and other key city leaders, Kriseman shifted focus to the seven young black men killed by…

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High wind advisory moves Rick Kriseman’s State of the City to Palladium

Published on January 20, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

The sun won’t be shining on St. Pete City Hall on Saturday for the Mayor’s State of the City address. St. Pete Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin recently praised her boss, Mayor Rick Kriseman, for waiting until the last minute the day of his inauguration to decide whether or not to move his event inside. Ultimately the sun came out for Kriseman, whose city slogan involves lots of sunny rays and includes modern versions of songs all things sunshine. Well, he’s…

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If you live on an alley and want to recycle, read this

Published on January 19, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

After a long and hard-fought battle, residents in traditional St. Pete neighborhoods will finally have their recycling picked up from the alley, not the curb. Beginning Monday residents whose trash is collected in an alley will have their blue recycling containers collected from that same location. To get ready, the city mailed out information packets to residents with specific instructions on where to place the blue bins on pickup day. Residents with alley pickup should place the rolling recycling bins…

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Bob Buckhorn says possible Rays stadium in Tampa will be “complicated transaction”

Published on January 15, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

The day after the St. Petersburg City Council finally voted to give the Tampa Bay Rays management permission to search for new ballpark sites on both side of the bay, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn fielded questions about what it could mean for his city. “Yesterday was a good day,” the Mayor began his news conference at City Hall, but he wasn’t doing handstands about wooing the Major League Baseball franchise. He soberly emphasized that his goal parallels St. Pete Mayor…

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Rick Kriseman - page 46

St. Pete Chamber of Commerce celebrates 2015 as year of successes, looks to 2016

St. Pete Yacht Club friends its Cuban equivalent

Rick Kriseman says state of St. Pete “strong and sunny”

High wind advisory moves Rick Kriseman’s State of the City to Palladium

If you live on an alley and want to recycle, read this

Bob Buckhorn says possible Rays stadium in Tampa will be “complicated transaction”

Rick Kriseman - page 46

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