Category: Public Services

Sinking in Sewage

Downtown St. Petersburg viewed from the bay receives most of the City's investments, leaving a few districts impoverished. Photo by Richard Boore.

Sinking in Sewage: Can St. Pete Clean Up It’s Act? By Krystel Knowles A sewage spill of roughly 200 million gallons of raw and partially treated sewage ended up the Tampa Bay area in 2015 and 2016. This incident brought to light that if something isn’t done to the infrastructure the view that makes St.… Continue reading Sinking in Sewage

Dispelling the Deserts: Communities Implement Their Own Solutions Against Food Insecurity in St. Petersburg

Bartlett Park Community Garden. Photo by Madeline Seiberlich.
Dispelling the Deserts   Communities Implement Their Own Solutions Against Food Insecurity in St. Petersburg   BY THOMAS IOVINO   Bartlett Park Community Garden. Photo by Madeline Seiberlich.   Nearly 1,000 days ago, residents of south St. Petersburg lost access to something many of us take for granted – easy access to fresh, wholesome foods.… Continue reading Dispelling the Deserts: Communities Implement Their Own Solutions Against Food Insecurity in St. Petersburg

Cooking with Chef Collins: BBQ Cooking Class

  By: Alyssa Fedorovich At the St. Pete Culinary Center, Chef Patrick “PT” Collins was the guest chef at their BBQ cooking class. Chef Collins is an entrepreneur and owner of Deuces BBQ in Midtown, St. Petersburg. As guest chef, he taught the students the importance of cooking as a trade as well as the art… Continue reading Cooking with Chef Collins: BBQ Cooking Class

Community Grant Program to Up Its Funding In 2017

CRA Grant Distribution

The city of St. Petersburg approved the CRA, a community redevelopment financing grant. Find out more about what this means for the Midtown community in the link below. Read the full article in The Weekly Challenger: http://theweeklychallenger.com/community-grant-program-to-up-its-funding-in-2017/

John Lewis talks to St. Petersburg

photo by Jonah King, John Lewis and Charlie Crist preparing to talk to the crowd

Lewis speaks on the importance of voting, optimism in the face of fear, and endorses Charlie Crist BY JONAH KING Neighborhood News Bureau Civil rights is a 9-word problem: “Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, I Have a Dream.” Those nine words are the universal American understanding of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. Another two… Continue reading John Lewis talks to St. Petersburg