By John Guerra Phil & Kris Cousineau got the idea for their successful office center and shipping business while eating pizza at Monty’s Pizzeria on Nursery Road. “We lived in the neighborhood and noticed the travel agency was closing on...
By John Lawrence The earth has been pulled back from the foundation of the Clearwater Intermediate School on Hoyt Avenue, preparing the ground for archeologists to look for human remains. At the request of Clearwater/Upper Pinellas chapter of the NAACP...
By John Lawrence There’s something neat Cessnas, Beechcraft, Embraers, and other private planes parked in a shiny row under a sunny winter sky. Even buttoned up under a tarp and pegged to ground anchors, a Beechcraft Bonanza cries out for...
By John Lawrence There’s an accordion from Eastern Europe on the wall, outdoor diners chatting in Croat and Serbian on the front porch, and a white dog sleeping peacefully on the floor behind the cash register. The dog is Bingo,...
By John Lawrence The idea of custom socks is not new; grandmothers have been knitting wool socks with their grandchildren’s initials on them for hundreds of years. In Clearwater in the 21st century, however, socks have become something of a...
By John Lawrence Pull into Feather Sound Country Club and you’ll see a sign on the side of the elegant club house that reads: “Pure Science Golf.” Science and golf may seem an odd pairing at first, until one learns...
By John Lawrence Here’s a joke: How does Santa clean his kitchen? Answer: With Comet! That’s just one of the Christmas jokes that Santa (his real name is“classified” so the kids don’t learn he’s not really from the North Pole)...
Clearwater jewelers' non-profit tops list of Colorful Clearwater’s charities for the holidays By John Lawrence You have noted the couple’s beautiful faces on advertisements throughout Tampa International Airport, on TV commercials in the Tampa Bay area and on the side...
By John Lawrence An honest-to-god backroad vehicle with kayaks on the roof is the only hint that the nondescript storefront hides every kayak style known to humanity. Open the front doors under the Osprey Bay Outdoors sign and a warehouse-sized...
By John Lawrence In the late 1970s, drivers on Walsingham Drive in Largo would stop and chat with a young man selling tomatoes, onions, cucumber, and other fresh vegetables on the side of the road. The man, John Tagaras, newly...
By John Lawrence A long line of voters— men, women, every age and color — stood in line at the court house in Clearwater, masked and waiting — for their chance to cast their ballots in the 2020 election. It...
By John L. Guerra Every fall, after the summer heat breaks and cool breezes awaken, families flock to Heritage Methodist United Methodist Church to walk its pumpkin patch. The Clearwater church, at 2680 Landmark Drive, has hosted pumpkin pickers for...
