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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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Here’s what’s open and what’s not this Veteran’s Day

Published on November 11, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

Veteran’s Day is Wednesday, which obviously means we should all thank a vet. But it also means a bunch of stuff is closed in observation of our nation’s heroes. So, to make it a little easier, here’s a run-down of what is and isn’t closed in St. Pete. City Hall and other government facilities including the Municipal Services Center will be closed. So, if you need to pay a water bill or parking ticket in person, do it Monday or…

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Emails show mounting criticism over St. Pete’s curbside recycling

Published on June 5, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Pete is just a couple of weeks away from implementation of the city’s long-awaited universal curbside recycling program. Last month residents began receiving the large, 95-gallon blue bins. That’s about the time excitement turned to trepidation. Since bins starting hitting yards across the city, the mayor and City Council have been fielding email after email from residents angry about the program. Based on an analysis of 61 of those emails, it seemed the people who were the angriest were…

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