Wifey & I love to head across the bay in our little boat. At a distance, The Pier beckons us from the water, inviting us to visit downtown St. Petersburg for shopping, a bite to eat, or just a nice walk. But the docks at the pier are in terrible shape. Not [...]
Those of you in St. Petersburg, Largo, and St. Pete Beach should make sure to let your voice be heard today. You have until 7pm to get to the polls. St. Pete Beach residents have four referendums to pass or fail. Largonians need to choose a single seat on city commission as well as [...]
The St. Pete City Council changed a ridiculous ordinance denying late night street vendor sales. Thanks to Joy McGhee, we can now buy a hot dog from a cart until 1am.
In a mystical survey of 100 cities by Children’s Health, Tampa ranks 94th in the “Best (and Worst) Places to Raise a Family.” Burlington, VT is ranked number 1. VT is short for “Vermont,” which is somewhere past Canada, I think. If it exists at all – I’ve never heard anyone claim to be from [...]
With two candidates left on the ballot for St. Petersburg’s November election (Bill Foster and Kathleen Ford), we ask Sticks of Fire readers just which of these two candidates they’d vote for. Of course, unlike St. Pete residents ballots, we added the “None of the above” option and left a space for the undecideds… [poll id="35"] Vote, and [...]
In St. Pete, selling from a pushcart after 9pm or before 7am violates a city ordinance. Sure sounds like a silly rule. But until the rule is changed, we can’t sell our t-shirts from a pushcart at night. Unless the St. Pete Times was in charge. A recent editorial says that if an ordinance is silly, [...]
Happy Birthday to the St. Pete Times! On July 25, 1884, editor J.M. “Doc” Baggett, printer M. Joel McMullen, and business manager Dr. J.L. Edgar published the first issue of the West Hillsborough Times. Based in Dunedin, it was a four-page weekly newspaper, printed in the back of Edgar’s pharmacy. Type was set by [...]
Friendship TrailBridge was opened in 1999 after efforts by a group of regular citizens called “Save the Gandy” were successful. Ten years later, the structure has been deemed unsafe, closed to the public, and is at another crossroads. Here are the options: A full repair of the entire bridge, in order to reopen it to recreational use, [...]
You may have heard of the latest local attempt at a world record. Lt. Col. Kristine Gould and retired Lt. Col. Harold “Chip” Bowlin are Tampa residents who serve on the parachute team of the Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base. They completed 103 tandem skydives within 20 hours over at Skydive City [...]
