Colleen Wright
St. Petersburg Reporter at Tampa Bay Times
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Sep 26, 2023 |
tampabay.com | Colleen Wright
ST. PETERSBURG — Mayor Ken Welch was thinking about people like his father when he said last week that a deal with the Tampa Bay Rays will achieve what past city leaders had hoped would happen. David Welch was the St. Petersburg City Council’s only Black member in 1982 when the idea was first raised to use the city’s Gas Plant property as a site for major league baseball. Black-owned residences,businesses and churches would be demolished as a result.
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Sep 26, 2023 |
tampabay.com | Colleen Wright
City officials on Tuesday announced the hiring of Lenice C. Emanuel asSt. Petersburg’s first Chief Equity Officer. According to a news release, Emanuel is an executive with 25 years of experience in nonprofits, including as chief executive officer of the YWCA of Tampa Bay from 2010 to 2015. Her work starts Monday.
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Sep 23, 2023 |
tampabay.com | Jack Evans |Colleen Wright
Tuesday’s fanfare was just the beginning. The Tampa Bay Rays won’t be tied to staying in St. Petersburg and construction can’t start on a new ballpark until a legally binding development agreement is approved with votes from the St. Petersburg City Council and the Pinellas County Commission. That likely won’t happen until the beginning of 2024.
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Sep 23, 2023 |
tampabay.com | Colleen Wright
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies are searching for a 21-year-old suspect who may have been involved in a domestic altercation Saturday morning in Wimauma that ended with an adult male killed. According to a news release, the sheriff’s office received a call just before 5:30 a.m. “reporting one person was deceased after a domestic altercation.” When deputies arrived in the 3300 block of Sanchez Ranch Lane, they found an adult male with upper body trauma.
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Sep 22, 2023 |
tampabay.com | Amy Gehrt |Colleen Wright
Detectives are searching for a man they say fatally shot another man following an argument in Tampa Friday morning. It happened in the area of East Busch Boulevard and North Connechusett Road around 8:30 a.m., the Tampa Police Department said. According to a news release from the agency, the shooter arrived and “engaged in a confrontation” with the man he killed, then got a gun and shot him before fleeing. The man who was shot died at the scene, police said.
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Breaking: St. Petersburg City Council unanimously approves another $5.3 million for Tropicana Field repairs and expenses. Read the details here: https://t.co/x9U0xgs0wQ
Lots going on at St. Petersburg City Council today Among votes for affordable housing and sewage system improvements, the council will hold a vote on about $5 million for Tropicana Field repairs & expenses Stay tuned
Remember St. Pete's 2015-16 sewage crisis? 1 billion gallons of sewage dumped, 200 million of it ending up in waterways & Tampa Bay. Environmental orgs sued St. Pete & they eventually settled. Almost a decade later, the case was resolved - on March 31 https://t.co/esEaMR73Cp
