Steinhatchee-A once-common sight on the Steinhatchee River was re-created this week with the arrival of the St. Nicholas III. On Sunday, the familiar orange-and-white wooden sponge boat returned to ...

Got sponge? Take the plunge. Sponge-free? Hit the sea. That's the city's new mantra to sponge boat owners who tie up for free along Tarpon Springs' historic Sponge Docks. After years of lax ...

This boat was a round-ended, tough-looking tub, the shape of a working sponge boat but minus masts and deckhouse, if deckhouse is the word for the minuscule protuberance on a sponge boat. In their ...

Dodecanese Street announced the character of the Tarpon Springs waterfront at once, with a stucco structure plainly derived from memories of the Erechtheum. Caryatids were mercifully not attempted, ...

“Neither yet, thank you,” I reply, as I walk the narrow sidewalk past her shop along Athens Street on this fine December morning. For a moment, I’m disoriented. This IS still Florida, isn’t it? With ...

The city's sponge boat operators could get a reprieve from paying daily docking fees if commissioners take the interim city manager's advice to suspend the fees for 60 days. Harbormaster Bill Schaibly ...