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Shuffleboard nonprofit urges city not to privatize facilities listen

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Tags: St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg City Council, downtown st. pete, shuffleboard

In recent years, shuffleboard has seen a revival. The activity, once associated with Florida retirees, now attracts people of all ages and stripes. When the weather’s right, a shuffleboard complex at Downtown St. Pete’s Mirror Lake park brings in some sizable crowds – everyone from hipsters to families with young children – when it opens up its courts to the public for free on Friday nights. But a recent proposal might change that. Chris Kelly is Vice President of the nonprofit St. Pete Shuff...

USF St. Pete, Dali Museum Celebrate Earth Day listen

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Tags: USF St. Petersburg, Earth Day, sistainability, environment, Dali Museum, Downtown St. Pete

Have you ever seen a teal bee? Their brilliant metallic bodies look like something out of a storybook. There were several on USF’s St. Pete campus today, thanks to Sarasota County agriculture expert Robert Kluson. He was on campus for a weeklong Earth Day Celebration, and said there was another place you can find the unusual-looking insects.

Kluson was one of several demonstrators set up on the freshly-minted greenspace at the heart of the campus. Briton Cleveland, president of the school’...