🌱 Patch AM: How volunteers just helped rebuild a Tarpon Springs hurricane-damaged home

Greetings Tarpon Springs! We're your go-to source for what's happening in town. Read on to get plugged in! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How volunteers just helped rebuild a Tarpon Springs hurricane-damaged home
• Why Tarpon Springs tops the list of Tampa's nicest small towns

Also on today's calendar: Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 88 and low of 75 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Sunday: Humid; a p.m. t-storm or two, temps: high: 88, low: 74.
• Monday: Humid with a heavy t-storm, with a high of 87 and low of 73 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Volunteers Rebuild Tarpon Springs Home 2 Years After Hurricanes (iheart.com) — Volunteers spent Oct. 1 helping rebuild a Tarpon Springs home still damaged from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, as part of an ongoing nonprofit-led recovery push. Organized by Strongward, the project highlights continuing needs in Tarpon Springs and Pinellas County, where long-term programs and federal funds are still helping residents repair and reconstruct storm-damaged housing.
   

• Nicest Small Towns To Visit Near Tampa (worldatlas.com) — Among several small towns near Tampa, Tarpon Springs stands out for its Greek sponge-diving heritage, lively Sponge Docks, and waterfront restaurants like Hellas. The guide also points visitors to the Tarpon Springs Aquarium & Animal Sanctuary and A.L. Anderson Park, encouraging day-trippers to experience the city's mix of history, marine life, and lakeside nature.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Tarpon Springs

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday October 3
• DAYBREAK CAFE →
  DAYBREAK CAFE, 1981 N. Pinellas Ave, Tarpon Springs
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday October 3
• L.C. Williams and the Driver at DAYBREAK CAFE →
  DAYBREAK CAFE, 1981 N. Pinellas Ave, Tarpon Springs
  7:00 pm
• Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime →
  , Tarpon Springs
  8:00 pm
Sunday October 4
• Brighter Days Sensory Friendly Halloween Party! →
  Tarpon Springs FL
• SAGES Theater: GRANDMA ROCKS - Tarpon Springs →
  Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, 101 South Pinellas Avenue, Tarpon Springs
  2:00 pm
• Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime →
  , Tarpon Springs
  8:00 pm
Wednesday October 7
• Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime →
  , Tarpon Springs
  8:00 pm
Thursday October 8
• Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime →
  , Tarpon Springs
  8:00 pm
Friday October 9
• Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime →
  , Tarpon Springs
  8:00 pm
Saturday October 10
• Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime →
  , Tarpon Springs
  8:00 pm
Sunday October 11
• Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime →
  , Tarpon Springs
  8:00 pm
Wednesday October 14
• Tarpon Springs Ghost Tour: Haunted History & True Crime →
  , Tarpon Springs
  8:00 pm

📣 Tarpon Springs Shout Outs!

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Thank you 👏👏👏 to these businesses for making Tarpon Springs PatchAM possible:

• Refresh - Aesthetics & Wellnes — (727) 222-4625

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Hi Neighbors!
  I 'm seeking recommendations for dog trainers to help with my reactive collies. I would love to get to a place where we can have them interact with… (Nextdoor Whitcomb Place)
• Looking for recommendations for an seamless gutter company that someone has used recently and had a really good experience with.
  I need gutters on the side and front of my house and what I think may be a special type of gutter for my carport. (Nextdoor Oakleaf Village)

• Innovative Renal Care - American Renal Associates, LLC posted a job opening for Registered Nurse in Tarpon Springs. Apply here.
• LongHorn Steakhouse posted a job opening for Dishwasher in Palm Harbor. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Tarpon Springs here.

🗞 Nearby News

Palm Harbor

• Missing Palm Harbor teen found safe after community-led search across Tampa Bay (tampabay28.com)
• Boroughs sets Flame record (clevelandbanner.com)
• Weekend spotlight: Caamp, TFO and Stormy Daniels (stpetecatalyst.com)

Dunedin

• Spectroscopy Cuvettes Market To 2035: Growth Accelerates on Laboratory Automation and QC Demand (indexbox.io)
• DeSantis Pushing for Rays-Braves World Series in MLB Playoffs (floridianpress.com)

Ok Tarpon Springs! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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