BY JAIMIE LUNA and KIM DOLEATTONNB Reporters ST. PETERSBURG – For decades, they had to sit in the back of the bus. They couldn’t eat
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They stress fundamentals on the gridiron and lessons in life
BY ANDREW CAPLANNNB Student Reporter “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” That quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King
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To counter the impact of poverty, they stress early childhood education
BY BIANCA SOLERNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – Shortly after the doors opened at 6:30 on a recent morning, a 5-year-old girl was playing with
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University strives to be ‘beacon of hope’ for Midtown students
BY LAUREN HENSLEYand SHELBY BOURGEOISNNB Student Reporters ST. PETERSBURG – From atop the new College of Business building going up at the University of South
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For St. Petersburg College, a big new building and a challenge
BY ANDREW CAPLANNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – When St. Petersburg College’s sparkling new Midtown Center opens in August, the three-story, $15-million building will have
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In a once-gritty industrial area, they create art
Courtesy of Five Deuces Galleria Story and photos BY PHIL LAVERYNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – Drawn by low rent and abundant space, artists have
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Up and down the Deuces: new businesses, new hope
Story by REBEKAH DAVILAPhotos by REBEKAH DAVILA, CANDICE RESHEF,ZACHARY GIPSON-KENDRICK and LAUREN HENSLEYNNB Student Reporters ST. PETERSBURG – When Mac Arthur was a teenager, he
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Where freight trains once rumbled, artists fire up clay creations
Candice Reshef | NNB Photos and story BY KELSEY ALNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – The last locomotive passed through in 1967, but the 1926
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Childhood cancer shaped his work and outlook on life
BY LAUREN HENSLEYNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – When he was 5, Jake Pfeifer got a grim diagnosis. He had a malignant, inoperable tumor behind
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BY CAITLIN ASHWORTHNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – For years, national publications taunted St. Petersburg as “God’s waiting room” – a “city of green benches”
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