Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
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Food influencer Joe Malinowski, known as Mr. Tampa Bay, drove weeks-long sell-outs at Dunedin's Jardin de Pollos and Crepesology through viral social media posts, illustrating how influencer marketing is reshaping customer acquisition for small local restaurants.
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Food influencer Joe Malinowski, known as Mr. Tampa Bay, drove weeks-long sell-outs at Dunedin's Jardin de Pollos and Crepesology through viral social media posts, illustrating how influencer marketing is reshaping customer acquisition for small local restaurants.
Food influencer Joe Malinowski, known as Mr. Tampa Bay, drove weeks-long sell-outs at Dunedin's Jardin de Pollos and Crepesology through viral social media posts, illustrating how influencer marketing is reshaping customer acquisition for small local restaurants.
Community
Dunedin's Leland Chase Outdoor Gallery, named for two educators who helped integrate the city's schools in 1963, now features eight artists' work on weatherproofed panels lining a wastewater plant wall on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
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A roundup of community events in Palm Harbor and Dunedin for the week of Aug. 27–Sept. 2, 2026, including Midnite Madness for teens, a Float-In Movie at Highlander Pool, the Dunedin Downtown Market and several look-ahead events into early September.
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Bay Area Legal Services cuts the ribbon Friday, Aug. 28, on a free walk-in legal clinic for low-income veterans at the North Pinellas VA Clinic in Clearwater, the fifth Medical-Legal Partnership site in the Bay Pines VA system since 2017.
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A packed week of free and low-cost events fills Palm Harbor and Dunedin Aug. 20–27, anchored by the Dunedin Fine Art Center's 20th-anniversary Wearable Art runway show, listening parties at D&J Records, virtual author talks at local libraries and a Medicare workshop.
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The Palm Harbor Museum kicks off its fall season with a free Sept. 2 pirate history talk by author Robert Jacob and a Sept. 23 presentation on Chinese American pioneer Lue Gim Gong, while launching an oral history initiative inviting residents to record their memories of Pinellas County.
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PSTA will receive $16.5 million in federal funding for a new Tampa Bay ferry, with two vessels being refurbished at Tarpon Marine Service in Tarpon Springs, even as the agency proposes cutting six bus routes and raising fares.
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Palm Harbor and Dunedin neighbors have a full slate of free and low-cost events the week of Aug. 17, from a community dinner at Lutheran Church of the Palms to art workshops at the Dunedin Fine Art Center and a blood drive at St. Alfred's Episcopal Church on Aug. 23.
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The Dunedin Fine Art Center opens five new fall exhibitions on Sept. 4 with a ticketed public reception, featuring painting, sculpture, video and fiber arts from more than a dozen named artists through December.
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A Palm Harbor-area student who credits his Take Stock in Children mentor with helping him through a difficult stretch in high school is now a UCF astrophysics senior whose research team will send a kidney stone experiment to the International Space Station no earlier than October 2026.
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Dunedin Brewery, the Dunedin Fine Art Center and Dunedin Public Theater are among nearly 30 Pinellas County venues awarded grants through Art Everywhere, a new $350,000 countywide arts program running Nov. 1 through Dec. 6, 2026.
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Pinellas County commissioners unanimously approved a $54.5 million state-county agreement on Aug. 11 to rebuild Sand Key's beaches and dunes, funded equally by FDEP and Tourist Development Tax dollars, though about 30% of beachfront properties still haven't signed required construction easements.
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Fifteen ghost hunters packed Dunedin's 138-year-old Andrews Memorial Chapel on Aug. 11 for a paranormal investigation led by Silent Slayer Ghost Tours, drawing attention to the landmark's dramatic preservation story, including being sawed in half and moved three times.
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