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Feature Story The day after Helene, Feeding Tampa Bay launched food distribution sites in hard-hit areas across Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay nonprofits, community groups mobilize for post-Helene relief and recovery effort

Across Tampa Bay, nonprofits and community groups mobilize for post-Helene relief and recovery efforts.

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Masthead gallery: Helene's aftermath in Tampa Bay

A photo gallery of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Tampa Bay neighborhoods

Feature Story A pile of flooded, ruined furniture in front of Dave Scheiber's Snell Isle area home.

Helene floodwaters and a flood of family and friends

For Snell Isle resident and longtime area journalist and freelance writer Dave Schreiber and his family, what matters most after Helene is not what they lost, but how much they still have.

Feature Story Bicyclists and joggers move through downtown Tampa during late September's World Car-Free Day. The community focus on pedestrian and bicyclist safety continues with October's Safe Streets Week events

Safe Streets Week: Making roads safer for pedestrians, bicyclists

Plan Hillsborough, Walk Bike Tampa and other community partners have organized Safe Streets Week to work for solutions that address the significant community issue of pedestrian and bicyclist safety.

Feature Story The Ybor City Arts Tour returns to venues like HCC's Gallery114 on Thursday, October 17th.

October arts roundup: Ybor Arts Tour, 10th anniversary SHINE Mural Festival

The October arts scene in Tampa Bay has the fall Ybor Arts Tour and the 10th anniversary of the SHINE Mural Festival

Feature Story La Segunda Central Bakery's Anthony Ali shapes dough into loaves at the 110-year-old bakery and Tampa institution.

Ybor's La Segunda Central Bakery: 110 years of "pride, history, tradition, love"

Ybor City's La Segunda Central Bakery has been making Cuban bread the same way for 110 years. Now in its fourth generation of family ownership, the Tampa institution turns out 18,000 to 22,000 loaves a day.

Partner Content The reading, art, music and technology programs funded by the Pinellas County Schools Referendum include instructional tools that help reading intervention specialists build skills and confidence in struggling high school students.

Pinellas County Schools Referendum funds reading programs that build student confidence

The reading, art, music and technology programs funded by the Pinellas County Schools Referendum include instructional tools that help reading intervention specialists build skills and confidence in struggling high school students.

Feature Story Nonprofit Kitchen Table Literary Arts celebrates a decade of promoting the prose and poetry of Black women and women of color and helping them blossom and flourish as writers.

Kitchen Table Literary Arts: Set up right for a decade

Nonprofit Kitchen Table Literary Arts celebrates a decade of promoting the prose and poetry of Black women and women of color and helping them blossom and flourish as writers.

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