The height of season has arrived. That can be a blessing and a curse. This time of year, for about 60 days, everything is full, from March to May, the beaches and downtown St. Pete are busier than ever with the Grand Prix and spring training. From a business point of view, it is prime time. If you like festivals, events, arts, sports, outdoor fun, music, dining, and nightlife, you can thank our Arts & Leisure editor and proofreader Buddy Baker, Art News writer Caron Schwartz and exec editor Nanette Wiser for 1,000 things to do during High Season.
The Bay Area Renaissance Festival runs weekends through the 2nd of April in Dade City. The 90-minute drive from here into the woods takes you back in time to a festival in a quaint 16th century English village. The Madeira Beach Recreation Department turbo-charged the live entertainment line-up for The Gulf Beaches Rotary Spring Carnival, March 16-19 at R.O.C. Park in Madeira Beach. Steve Traiman’s feature covers the Florida Holocaust Museum, celebrating 30 years of support to our Jewish community.
Longtime readers may remember one of our early Life Well Lived honorees, Disney Legend Al Konetzni, who was joined on our cover by Mickey Mouse for Al’s 100th birthday in May 2015.
This month we celebrate our Treasure Island friend and neighbor, sail maker and yacht builder Charley Morgan, 93, who passed in January, just a few hours after his wife Maureen’s demise. Also, this issue, we greet Brittany Pierpont, a new St. Pete Beach dentist.
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Real estate continues as our top ad category, but the three “H”s – healthcare, home improvement and hospitality – are all on the rise. We have you to thank for that. It always helps us when you tell our businesspeople you saw them in Paradise NEWS.
In the past few months, we are pleased to have helped some of our great restaurants get their stories out: RumFish Grill; Sea Dog Brewing Co., Sea Dog Catering (food trucks); Outer Banks Seafood Boil, now steaming in-house; The Helm, featuring SPB’s best brunch, provisioning, and catering; Slyce Pizza; and 82 Degrees. We also welcome the Sovereign Boat Club, offering premium boating experiences on a budget; Van Selow Design; and YörDör (helping to increase home sale prices by overseeing home improvements); and All-Phase Paving.
We are ALWAYS looking for good, reliable companies that not everyone in town knows about. When you have a good experience with a non-advertiser, please suggest they advertise in Paradise News to let tens of thousands of your neighbors know about them. They can call 727-363-6888 or email sales@paradisenewsfl.com. Thanks for reading Paradise News!