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Clearwater Marine Aquarium's Halloween Spookquarium on Friday, Oct. 30 features underwater pumpkin carving, a costume contest, trick-or-treat stations, free Dippin' Dots and a Creepy Sea Cavern exhibit open through Nov. 1.
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Extreme drought has disappeared from Florida's drought map after a dramatic one-week improvement, but Clearwater's one-day-per-week watering restrictions remain in effect through March 2027.
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The North Pinellas Woman's Club distributed $20,500 in grants to 21 nonprofits on Aug. 6, including several Clearwater-based organizations, with funds raised through its Christmas Under the Oaks festival returning Nov. 8 for its 50th year.
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The Juvenile Welfare Board's free Turbo Babies program, which gives families with children from birth to age 3 bags of books, toys and brain-building activities, is expanding into preschools across Pinellas County. Any family can enroll by email at no cost.
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The 31st Annual Great Bay Scallop Search found 263 scallops across Tampa Bay on Aug. 1, including search zones in St. Joseph Sound and Clearwater Harbor, rebounding from just 43 in 2025 and tying the 15-year high set in 2024.
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AMIkids, a Clearwater-based nonprofit serving at-risk youth since 1972, planted its first acre of seagrass in Tampa Bay after two years of scientific preparation, combining marine habitat restoration with youth development.
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The Clearwater Historical Society and Opera for Earth Corporation will host a World Music Heritage Festival on Nov. 14 at the society's South Fort Harrison Avenue museum, while three near-term events offer residents hands-on and social programming through early September.
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Clearwater Marine Aquarium's two resident nurse sharks, Thelma and Bruce, are drawing Shark Week attention while serving a year-round conservation education mission after being deemed unreleasable due to extended human contact.
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Joan Campbell, a 96-year-old world-record relay team member who swam at the Long Center three times a week for 30 years, was among the first back in the water when Clearwater celebrated the pool's reopening on July 31 after a $17.3 million, 17-month renovation.
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The National Black & Latino Economic Summit brings bank partners, housing developers, and small business leaders to Clearwater Beach's Sheraton Sand Key Resort from Aug. 5-7, focusing on racial wealth gap solutions, access to capital, and affordable housing for minority entrepreneurs.
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Clearwater's Long Center pool reopens Friday, July 31, at 3 p.m. after a 17-month, $17.3 million renovation that replaced the natatorium's failing windows, roof, HVAC system, and structural steel.
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AMPLIFY Clearwater's Christmas in July canned soup drive for HOPE Villages of America wraps up Friday, July 31, giving residents a final chance to donate at the chamber's Fort Harrison Avenue office.
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The Clearwater Police Department's 72-page final report, released June 13, 2026, concluded that professional wrestler Hulk Hogan died of natural causes at his Clearwater home on July 24, 2025, with no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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Forty residents at Clear Bay Terrace in Clearwater received robotic companion pets at a May "Adoption Day" ceremony, part of a growing trend using electronic animals to combat senior loneliness in Pinellas County.
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