‘A whirlwind of emotions’: AquaX racer competes, wins, in the wake of tragedy

Erminio Iantosca was leading the field of AquaX jet ski racers heading into the season’s final event in St. Petersburg; however, just making it to the race was in doubt after tragedy struck his family early in the morning on Sept. 3.

Iantosca planned to leave his house in Naples at 8 a.m. for the 2021 P1 St. Pete Powerboat Grand Prix. A season championship was on the line, and it would be decided in a place Iantosca told the Catalyst he “loves” – whether racing or just to visit. Then, at 3:30 a.m., he was awakened by a phone call letting him know that his mother had unexpectedly passed away. Josephine Iantosca was 66 years old.

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Arts and Crafts Movement museum opens today

Six years in the making, Rodolfo “Rudy” Ciccarello’s $90 million vision will be unveiled to the public today.

The Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, the five-story, 137,100-square-foot facility Ciccarello built from scratch to house his collection of American decorative and fine arts created between (approximately) 1890 and 1930. It’s located at 355 4th Street N.

Craig Pittman’s Welcome to Florida: The gopher tortoise

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