Police social worker program launch planned for early 2021

Social service workers won’t hit the streets to respond to reports of non-violent incidents in St. Petersburg until at least next year.

Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin clarified the timeline and funding for the St. Petersburg Police Department’s Community Assistance Liaison program during a city budget hearing Thursday night. After the hearing, the City Council adopted the city’s $671 million operating budget and $99.4 million capital expense budget for fiscal year 2021, which starts Oct. 1.

St. Petersburg’s Fighting Chance Fund wraps up with some money left over

St. Pete tech firm finds profound shifts in grocery shopping during Covid-19 crisis

The pandemic ‘hasn’t slowed down’ Habitat For Humanity

For now, no changes will be made to Pinellas County’s mask mandate

Animal adoptions have increased during the pandemic

If it feels like almost everyone you know adopted a pet during the pandemic, you’re not just imagining things.

That might be the biggest silver lining of Covid-19, said Jeff Voelpel, CEO of the Humane Society of Pinellas, a no-kill shelter where more than 1,000 animals have found new homes so far this year.  

‘Catalyst Sessions’ recap: Kirk Adams

Rock ‘n’ roll musician Kirk Adams was Thursday’s guest on The Catalyst Sessions, and explained how he inauspiciously started his career in show business as a kid magician in the Fort Lauderdale area. He can, in fact, still do a couple of cool card tricks if he’s in the right mood. Music, however, won him over, and once he started playing bass, then guitar, it was only natural that he would start writing songs – and now, six albums later, he’s one of St. Petersburg’s most valuable players.

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