Each year, Mayor Rick Kriseman celebrates #VeteransDay with a public ceremony in Williams Park. A formal award is given to a local community hero that has served our Country.
This year, the mayor wants YOUR help picking an honored veteran to receive the award recognition! Please help us select an awardee, and join us for the ceremony on Friday, November 11, 2016.
Nominate, here: stpete.org/localvets
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A Minute with Laura Bryant: Public Art
Get informed on what's happening with the New St. Petersburg Pier in a minute or less! This week, Laura Bryant, a member of the Public Art Commission and Chair of the Pier Public Art Committee, tells us about public art at the new St. Petersburg Pier.
To watch the video, click the image above or click here.
To learn more about the new St. Pete Pier, click here.
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Meet Dr. Bob Wallace: South St. Pete CRA Grant Recipient
Take a moment to meet Dr. Bob Wallace, a business owner within the South St. Petersburg CRA. In this video, he tells us about the benefits of the CRA, building a gateway on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, and to south St. Petersburg.
To watch the video, click the image above or click here.
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Public Highlights for the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and the Sunshine City
October 1 through October 8, 2016
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Saturday, October 1, 8:00 am
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Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, 3rd Annual Mayor's 49th Street Cleanup, Tangerine Greenway
Learn more here.
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| Saturday, October 1, 9:00 am |
St. Petersburg Opera at the Saturday Morning Market, St. Petersburg
Learn more here.
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| Saturday, October 1, 11:00 am |
13th Annual Pumpkin Palooza Family Fall Festival, Northside Baptist Church
Learn more here.
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| Saturday, October 1, 5:30 pm |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Pinellas County Urban League 38th Annual Equal Opportunity Day Gala, Tropicana Field
Learn more here.
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| Sunday, October 2, 10:00 am |
St. Pete Yoga Festival, Sunken Gardens
Learn more here.
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| Monday, October 3, 5:30 pm |
An Evening with Kathleen Parker, Poynter Institute
Learn more here.
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| Tuesday, October 4, 5:00 pm |
Citizen Advisory Committee, Southside CRA, City Hall
Learn more here.
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| Tuesday, October 4, 6:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, National Night Out St. Petersburg, Target Gateway Parking Lot
Learn more here.
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| October 5 through October 9 |
Fire Prevention Week
Learn more here.
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| Wednesday, October 5, 7:30 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Walk to School Day, Bay Point Elementary
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| Wednesday, October 5, 9:30 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Keynote Address, Critical Infrastructure Symposium, USF Marshall Student Center
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| Wednesday, October 5, 5:00 pm |
Historic St. Pete Walking Tour Guide Launch Party, St. Petersburg Museum of History
Learn more here.
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| Wednesday, October 5, 5:15 pm |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, City Beautiful Awards, Sunken Gardens
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| Thursday, October 6, 11:30 am |
Deputy Mayor Tomalin, YWCA Pearls of Wisdom Awards, Hilton Carillon
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| Thursday, October 6, 6:00 pm |
Deputy Mayor Tomalin, PEMHS 2016 Pacesetter Awards, The Coliseum
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| Friday, October 7, 11:45 am |
Hunger Free (formerly Soup's On, The Coliseum
Learn more here.
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| Friday, October 7, 2:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, Ironyard Demo Day |
| Saturday, October 8, 9:00 am |
SPCA Tampa Bay Pet Walk, Vinoy Park
Learn more here.
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| Saturday, October 8, 10:00 am |
St. Petersburg Fire/Rescue Open House, All St. Petersburg Fire Stations
Learn more here.
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| Saturday, October 8, 5:00 pm |
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Tuesday, September 27 |
Anne Lindberg SPB: St. Pete, Gulfport celebrate two cities, one street
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman and Gulfport Mayor Sam Henderson will work together this Saturday to help clean up a street that's common to both cities.
After the cleanup, St. Petersburg police Chief Anthony Holloway and Gulfport police Chief Rob Vincent will hold their own community event to discuss how the departments are collaborating on issues common to the 49th Street South corridor that both share.
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Thursday, September 29 |
Tampa Bay Times: Rebuilt Publix highlights new retail options coming to St. Petersburg's Skyway Marina District
For shoppers missing their neighborhood Publix near the Sunshine Skyway bridge and Pinellas Bayway, the wait is almost over.
A new 55,000-square-foot store is rising on the site of the old one. It will open its doors in early December.
That's just one of several major retail offerings coming to the Skyway Marina District, which was created in 2013 to transform the area.
[Read full article] |
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Thursday, September 29 |
ABC Action News: St. Pete Mayor, city officials join fight against gun violence ahead of Election Day
St. Pete Mayor, Rick Kriseman is continuing his fight against gun violence on Thursday. The city is participating in the
"Vocal Majority" bus tour.
Kriseman and St. Pete council members will join the national bus tour on the steps of St. Petersburg City Hall at 11 a.m.
The aim of the event is to toughen gun laws and make communities safer.
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Thursday, September 29 |
The Weekly Challenger: Chief's Creole Cafe celebrates history
Right next door to the Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum, more than 50 people gathered at Chief's Creole Café last Saturday to celebrate the grand opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
The Smithsonian Institution's latest museum in Washington D.C is a milestone in U.S. history. The event was also a commemoration of the 1968 black sanitation workers strike in St. Petersburg, one of the most significant moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the city.
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Thursday, September 29 |
Tampa Bay Times: National gun control tour stops in St. Pete
The heroic Arizona congresswoman who made it back to speak at the Democratic Convention after being shot in 2011 wasn't there. Neither was her astronaut husband.
Mayor Rick Kriseman noted the wax stains of candles burned on the steps of City Hall during a vigil for the victims of Orland's Pulse nightclub shooting in June. He compared them to what he said were the blood-stained hands of National Rifle Association lobbyists and the politicians who go along with the powerful group's agenda.
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Thursday, September 29 |
10 News: Some vending machines in St. Pete to have healthier options
A total of 53 beverage machines and 28 snack machines are going to have these healthier options across the city.
While some like Susan Grass accept the change...
"When you have more options for people to select from, then I think they will select those instead of grabbing the fast coke and a candy bar to go with it," says Grass.
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Thursday, September 29 |
FOX 13: St. Pete vending machines trading junk for healthy
If you're craving candy or soda, those items could be harder to find in the city of St. Pete. City leaders announced plans to stop filling vending machines with sugary treats.
Through next year, this new policy is going to affect all vending machines in city-owned facilities; that means public parks, city pools and city hall, just to name a few.
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Thursday, September 29 |
The Weekly Challenger: Who's cleaning your city?
The City of St. Petersburg Sanitation Department's trademark beige trucks are known to navigate down the streets and alleyways picking up trash in curbside containers and alley dumpsters with gigantic metal-like claws. It is an enormous undertaking with drivers servicing 31 residential routes per workday averaging about 1,200 homes per route.
There are several divisions under the sanitation department that include residential, commercial, recycling and the environment. There are a total of 180 staff members that service 80,000 household accounts and 6,000 commercial accounts.
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