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Mexican restaurant to open at former 4th Street school location

St. Petersburg’s long-dormant North Ward Secondary School building, on 11th Avenue North at 4th Street, is about to get a new lease on life.

Day 2: Catching up with Councilmember Darden Rice

The work is hopeful, says Rice, “Whatever your political stripe, we live in cynical times. Volunteerism is social capital, and we need to tell that story.” Seeing the work that local nonprofits are doing to make the city just a little brighter helps Rice to see that the city can’t – and doesn’t have to – do it alone.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Davis to speak for Preserve the ‘Burg

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack E. Davis will be Preserve the ‘Burg’s guest speaker April 23, in a presentation at freeFall Theatre. He calls his talk “The Gulf: More Than an Oil Sump and Hurricane Alley.”