Latest reporting from the Community desk.
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The Pirates, Parrots & Paradise Festival comes to Coachman Park on Nov. 7-8, and the Clearwater World Music Heritage Festival follows at the Clearwater Historical Society on Nov. 14, giving residents two weekends of live music and vendors in the downtown area.
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A free Halloween costume party featuring salsa and bachata dancing, live music by La Oferta and dance performances by Samba Conmigo takes over downtown Clearwater's District on Saturday, Oct. 31 from 6 to 11 p.m.
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Two free events anchor Clearwater's week: the Market Marie outdoor market brings 130-plus vendors to Coachman Park on Saturday, Sept. 12, and the Clearwater Main Library celebrates its 110th anniversary on Monday, Sept. 14, the exact date the original Carnegie-funded library opened in 1916.
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St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport will host a free public welcome-home reception at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, for 76 veterans returning from Honor Flight of West Central Florida's Mission 58, which marks the nonprofit's 4,000th veteran honored.
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A film about the founding of Hooters aims to begin shooting in the Tampa and Clearwater area in November 2026, near the Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard site where the restaurant chain opened its first location in 1983.
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Jacksonville pop-punk band Yellowcard brings the 97X Next Big Thing Legends show to The BayCare Sound in downtown Clearwater on Friday, Sept. 4, reviving a concert series that launched at Coachman Park 25 years ago.
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Largo resident Melissa Arledge became the first homeowner to complete a full rebuild through Pinellas County's Pinellas Recovers hurricane recovery program, which has approved more than 1,000 households and offers up to $375,000 in construction costs to eligible Clearwater residents.
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Pinellas County's Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz returns in September with a guided walk at Clearwater's Moccasin Lake Nature Park on Sept. 19, inviting residents to document native pollinators using the free iNaturalist app.
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The Clearwater City Council approved a year-round slow-speed manatee protection zone for Stevenson Creek on Aug. 31, capping a two-year resident campaign that documented six manatee deaths in the shallow estuary.
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Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms and Spin Doctors make their BayCare Sound debut Tuesday at 6 p.m., with guitarist Chan Kinchla promising a night of live music from three bands that never stopped touring.
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The BayCare Sound in downtown Clearwater will host MorFlow Fest on Sept. 12, headlined by Mersiv, and Tapesgiving on Nov. 27-28, the venue's first two-night event headlined by Tape B with G Jones.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna and Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo at Life Farms in Clearwater on Tuesday for a roundtable on regenerative farming and glyphosate, part of Kennedy's 19-state "Take Back Your Health" tour ahead of the November midterms.
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The Clearwater CRA is hosting a placemaking and design workshop for the Cleveland Street District on Tuesday, Aug. 25, with afternoon and evening sessions at the Main Library, giving residents direct input as more than $12 million in construction reshapes the corridor.
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Clearwater Beach ranked 17th in the world and second in the U.S. on Tripadvisor's 2026 Best of the Best Beaches list, a designation earned by fewer than 1% of the platform's 8 million listings.
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