Kahwa Coffee comes to South St. Pete

After nearly 18 years, the wait is over; St. Petersburg residents living on the city’s southside have a Kahwa Coffee shop.

Chris Steinocher, president of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce, noted at Tuesday morning's ribbon-cutting ceremony that the home-grown company has become "our brand." The latest location, at 400 45th Ave. S., represents Kahwa’s 15th throughout the region.

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Wildfire destroys 30 acres of Egmont Key

Firefighters from multiple agencies extinguished a brush fire that destroyed 30 acres of Egmont Key State Park Sunday.

According to Jim Millican, division chief and fire marshal for the Lealman Fire District, six employees of the Tampa Bay Pilots Association, which maintains a station on the otherwise uninhabited 440-acre island, were evacuated. No structures were damaged. The organization supplies trained harbor pilots to board and pilot large commercial vessels entering Tampa Bay from the Gulf of Mexico.

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