Duke Employees & AABE Partner for Youth Energy Academy
BY STEVE TRAIMAN, Contributing Columnist As part of its expansive civic role in the St. Petersburg and Pinellas African-American community, “Duke Energy is …
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Nurses taking advantage of doctoral education
BY VALERY MCKNIGHT In 2004, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) called for a change in the education required for professional nurses who …
Gibbs High student earns scholarship
BY HOLLY KESTENIS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – The Weekly Challenger offered one deserving student an opportunity to study with the American Stage Theatre …
Geography Bee at the Johnson Library
ST. PETERSBURG – Hey Kids! Brush up on your geography this summer and have some fun at the library while you do it. Students entering grades one through six …
St. Petersburg College – Center of Excellence Brain Bowl Competition
ST. PETERSBURG — What is the Brain Bowl Competition? Each year since 1985, the Florida Education Fund has hosted an Annual State Brain Bowl Competition …
Automotive Collision Repair offered at pTEC
BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — These students are encouraged to get their hands dirty in class. For the participants of the Automotive …
Focused on the future
BY ISEYANA LATRICE WHALEY ST. PETERSBURG —Seventeen years ago on a doctor’s urgent request, a beautiful baby girl came into the world. On the second week …
Common Core is killing American education
BY CHERYLYN HARLEY LEBON Recently, as I waited in line at the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, my eyes drifted to a sample license plate on the wall that …
Imagine School: Graduation marks the end
BY DEXTER MCCREE, Feature Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Graduation for Imagine School, St. Petersburg last Mon., June 2 was decorated with dangling stars and …
St. Pete’s finest: Victoria Kelty
ST. PETERSBURG — It seems as though it was only yesterday when tears were streaming down my little girl’s face as she cried when her older brothers went …