{"id":159855,"date":"2026-02-18T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159855\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:33:12","slug":"st-pete-mayor-welch-to-hold-annual-state-of-the-city-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159855\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Mayor Welch to hold annual State of the City address"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg Mayor Kenneth T. Welch will address the community at the annual State of the City Address on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

The mayor is set to discuss the city\u2019s achievements, milestones, and successes during his fourth year in office and preview the year ahead.<\/p>\n

Welch was elected the 54th mayor of St. Petersburg in Nov. of 2021.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay 28 reporter Casey Albritton was the mayor\u2019s 2025 State of the City Address<\/a>, where he discussed recovery efforts after hurricanes Helene and Milton.<\/p>\n

The event will start at 10 a.m. on Feb. 18, and Tampa Bay 28 will be at the event and stream it live on the website<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n

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Son remembers mother who was one of four victims killed at Sarasota County home<\/p>\n

Olga Greinert was one of four people shot and killed at a home in Sarasota County on February 10. Eldar Greinert, Olga’s youngest child, recounts to Tampa Bay 28 reporter Julie Salomone the moments deputies broke the news of her death. <\/p>\n

Teenage son remembers mother who was one of four victims killed at Sarasota County home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg Mayor Kenneth T. Welch will address the community at the annual State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,596,202,204,203,199,201,76628,200,76629,5910,3670,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-159855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-pinellas-county","10":"tag-st-pete","11":"tag-st-pete-headlines","12":"tag-st-pete-news","13":"tag-st-petersburg","14":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","15":"tag-st-petersburg-mayor-kenneth-t-welch","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news","17":"tag-state-of-the-city-adress","18":"tag-tampa-bay-28","19":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","20":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}