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Colorful ceramic bowls, wooden carvings, and beaded jewelry on a display table.

Free Palm Harbor Craft Festival returns to Florida Avenue Nov. 21

The 6th Annual Palm Harbor Craft Festival brings a free, juried outdoor craft fair to Florida Avenue on Saturday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 22, with about 20 craft categories on display.

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Colorful ceramic bowls, wooden carvings, and beaded jewelry on a display table.

Free Palm Harbor Craft Festival returns to Florida Avenue Nov. 21

The 6th Annual Palm Harbor Craft Festival brings a free, juried outdoor craft fair to Florida Avenue on Saturday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 22, with about 20 craft categories on display.

· 1 min read

Colorful ceramic bowls, wooden carvings, and beaded jewelry on a display table.

Free Palm Harbor Craft Festival returns to Florida Avenue Nov. 21

The 6th Annual Palm Harbor Craft Festival brings a free, juried outdoor craft fair to Florida Avenue on Saturday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 22, with about 20 craft categories on display.

· 1 min read

Line dancing au camping municipal ‘Les Vieux Chênes‘ à Chaillac.

Dunedin adds archery, fencing to fall rec lineup

The Dunedin Community Center is launching its fall season of recreational programs, with archery, fencing, mahjong, line dancing and fitness classes for residents of all ages.

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Dunedin's Kathy Dunn tops $100K in cycling fundraiser

Mease Life resident Kathy Dunn, a 35-year cancer survivor, enters her 11th Great Cycle Challenge in September after raising more than $100,000 for the Children's Cancer Research Fund.

A woman sets up a mesh play tunnel on a colorful rug in a children's play room.

Free sensory play session set for Palm Harbor Library Sept. 5

Little Victories Gym, a Palm Harbor-based mobile sensory gym for children with disabilities, hosts a free sensory play session at the Palm Harbor Library on Saturday, Sept. 5, with space for just 10 children.

Three children in athletic gear pose with a trophy and medals in front of a YMCA backdrop.

Palm Harbor YMCA kids triathlon finishes after lightning delay

More than 200 young athletes ages 5 to 15 completed the annual Swim, Bike, Run for Freedom Kids Triathlon at the Greater Palm Harbor YMCA on Friday, Aug. 28, five days after lightning halted the first attempt for the oldest age group.

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Dunedin restaurants sell out after viral food influencer posts

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.

Gaming, movies and markets fill the week ahead

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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Dunedin's Wearable Art runway leads packed local week

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.

Botanical watercolor showing a whole orange and a halved cross-section, labeled 'Lue Orange.'

Palm Harbor Museum launches fall season with pirate talk, oral history project

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.

PSTA lands $16.5M for new ferry as bus cuts loom

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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Free dinner, art classes and blood drive fill Palm Harbor-Dunedin week

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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