St. Petersburg has likely lost Major League Baseball

The Tampa Bay Rays have likely taken their last at-bat in St. Petersburg, a reality begrudgingly recognized Thursday night by the team’s most ardent supporters in and outside City Hall.

This much is clear: The current iteration of a partnership that Mayor Ken Welch compared to an engagement in January 2023 is over. The team said as much in a letter sent Tuesday to Pinellas County Commissioners, who were supposed to help pay for the wedding.

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Arts Alive! podcast: Ed Woltil and Kirk Adams

Two of St. Pete’s finest songwriters and rock ‘n’ roll bandleaders are joining forces tonight at the Palladium Theater’s Side Door Cabaret.

Ed Woltil is a local native who played in a number of the bay area’s key “new wave” bands of the 1980s and into the ’90; as a solo artist, he’s made a handful of perfectly-executed pop records, and has been a member of the ultra-musicianly Florida Bjorkestra since its inception.

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