Robert Boyd

Tampa

News Reporter at WFTS-TV (Tampa, FL)

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Articles

Hillsborough County offers free recycling consultation program for businesses

2 days ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

TAMPA, Fla. — Many of us who try to be environmentally friendly ponder this question every day: What belongs in the blue bin and what belongs in the regular trash? Hillsborough County has a program that is helping businesses answer that question. Walking the halls of the Pet Resource Center, Director Chelsea Waldeck had no idea how much more they could be doing to help the environment, until she met with Hillsborough County Recycling Coordinator Angela Fama.
Displaced Clearwater condo residents allowed to gather up their things

3 days ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

CLEARWATER — For the first time since being evacuated from a Clearwater condominium, residents were given permission to go back inside and gather up their things. Sixty residents had to be evacuated from the South Beach III Condos on Gulf Blvd. this past Tuesday after a large crack was discovered in a concrete column in the parking garage.
Catholics attend church for the first time since announcement of Pope Leo

4 days ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

ST. PETE — For most Catholics, this weekend’s mass will mark their first trip to church since Pope Leo was announced. Inside the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Pete, parishioners prayed for and celebrated Pope Leo during Saturday afternoon mass.
Clearwater students design ocean-themed fashion to help hometown aquarium

5 days ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Robert Boyd

Share CLEARWATER, Fla — From an evening gown made to look like a jellyfish, to a mask overtaken by koi fish, to a dress as blue as the gulf, these are just some of the ocean-themed fashion designs coming to life inside the Clearwater High School 3D Art Class. It’s all part of a special fashion show fundraiser at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium May 10.
Clearwater students design ocean-themed fashion to help hometown aquarium

6 days ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

CLEARWATER, Fla — From an evening gown made to look like a jellyfish, to a mask overtaken by koi fish, to a dress as blue as the gulf, these are just some of the ocean-themed fashion designs coming to life inside the Clearwater High School 3D Art Class. It’s all part of a special fashion show fundraiser at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium May 10.
Bare knuckle boxing champ from Lakeland says toughest opponent was mental health

1 week ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

LAKELAND, Fla — Women’s Featherweight Bare Knuckle Boxing Champion of the World, Jessica Borga of Lakeland, has seen her fair share of battles in the ring. Still, she says her most formidable opponent was outside of it, and that’s mental health. Borga has been fighting for as long as she can remember, but it hasn’t always been for sport; it started as survival.
Lumina Youth Choirs celebrates 10 years, prepares for international competition

1 week ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

TAMPA, Fla. — This year, the Lumina Youth Choirs is celebrating their 10th anniversary. They’re not only letting their voices shine right here in Tampa Bay, but across the rest of the world. From elementary to middle to high school, the Lumina Youth Choirs is made up of 120 Tampa Bay students varying in age and talent. One thing they all have in common is their love for singing. “The way you get to experience different things with your voices,” said elementary school singer Lily Brown.
Tampa Riverwalk thriving, thanks to a little help from its friends

2 weeks ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

TAMPA, Fla — This year, the Tampa Riverwalk was voted the second-best Riverwalk in America BY USA Today, but the Riverwalk couldn’t do it alone; it needed a little help from its friends, literally, Friends of the Tampa Riverwalk. You won’t find a more vibrant, scenic, fun-filled 2.6-mile stretch of pavement anywhere better than the Tampa Riverwalk, according to Katy Alderman and Anthony Derby.
94-year-old Lightning fan rallies team support across her neighborhood

2 weeks ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — House after house in the Mainlands neighborhood in Pinellas Park, there is nothing but passionate Lightning fans, and the woman at the center of it all, you could say the leader of it all, the most passionate fan of them all, is 94-year-old Arlene Jekel. Driving around the neighborhood in her tricked-out Lightning-themed golf cart, you won’t find a bigger Bolts fan than Jekel, but believe it or not, it wasn’t always that way.
Visit Central Florida worried about losing tourist funding amid new House bill

2 weeks ago | abcactionnews.com | Robert Boyd

POLK COUNTY, Fla — The future of tourism in Florida was under scrutiny today after the state House passed a bill that would reallocate funds from the tourism industry to the housing market in the form of tax refunds. “From an economics standpoint, I’m an old economics professor, this is a bad move, this is a bad business move for the state of Florida,” said Mark Jackson, Director of Visit Central Florida.