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* Co-Sponsored the City of Sarasota Hands of Heritage Centennial Celebration.
* Co-Sponsored the Give Hunger the Blues
* Co-sponsored Thunder By the Bay
 * Lobbied for allowing more then one TV service provider for Sarasota and Manatee County.
* Supported and lobbied for red light cameras in Florida.
 * Initiated coverage and community support addressing effluent dumping in the Gulf of Mexico.
* Awarded tens of thousands of dollars in grants to local non-profit agencies.
* Supported neighborhood groups in the preservation of their neighborhoods
* Lobbied for no oil drilling off of Florida's Gulf coast.
* Operates the only live media weather station updated every 15 minutes for our area.
* Lobbied for red tide solutions.
* Initiated the first local private sector Drivers Safety Program with local and state law enforcement.
* Endorsed higher school standards and funding for Sarasota County and Manatee County schools.
* Addressed unsafe conditions at 4th of July firework's displays.
* Initiated County Employee, fire fighters and law enforcement recognition program.
* Endorsed opening up Sarasota County bid process for their largest contract of over $100 million dollars.
* Uncovered poor clarity of water systems in Sarasota and Manatee County's
* Endorsed initiating studies to evaluate building reservoirs so we don't have to buy a majority of our water from other municipalities.
* Lobbied for hands free telephone usage.

 

 

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* Venice Beach's swimming still closed due to fecal bacteria warning. Runoff from heavy rains are thought to carry unwanted bacteria to gulf beach's.

 


This photo shows Midnight Pass when it was last open in 1983. The clear coral waters soon disappeared after it closed. The county at that time made the hideous decision to let famous painter Syd Solomon bulldoze in front of his home which caused the pass to close.
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The most interesting thing about the Venice Archives and Area Historical Collection is its variety of preserved materials, said Erin Mahaney.
 
 "It has prehistoric fossils and 1920s photos; manuscripts and artifacts, all covering a broad spectrum," Mahaney said.
 
Mahaney should know. As a student in the master's degree program in public history at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, she is spending the summer as an intern at the Triangle Inn, home of the Venice Archives.
 
 The Cardinal Mooney High School graduate received a bachelor's degree from New College in Sarasota as a history major. This summer, her work at the Archives has been a hands-on learning project to serve in lieu of a master's thesis. Under the tutelage of Venice Historic Resources Director James Hagler, Mahaney has had the opportunity to learn about managing an archive and to leave a contribution that will be useful to the city of Venice for years to come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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* The OurTown50.com tour of North Carolina starts on Saturday. We'll show you great beach vacations that will give you a break from the summer heat. Have a safe and fun 4th of July weekend.

 

 

 

Sarasota Memorial daily costs to borrow money goes up by $32,000 per day as bond market downgrades their bonds due to bond insurers.

 

 

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 Gov. Crist a bachelor pops the question and his 38 year old girlfriend accepts. Charlie won't ever have to worry about having a Halloween costume, his bride to be parents own a Halloween costume company. Congrats Charlie and Carole!

 

 

Venice Beach at the Pier is still under a no swim advisory as of the 4th of July.

 

* Road work continues in Nokomis on U.S. 41. Each business has taken their turn having traffic flow to their store fronts disrupted.

 

SCAT bus ridership is up as more people abandon their cars. Those cars now on the road seem to drive slower then before, as if that is possible:)

 

 

 

Keith Stansell (left), Marc Gonsalves (center) and Thomas Howes were held by the FARC since 2003.
Keith Stansell, left, whose children live in the Sarasota area was freed from Columbian rebels after five years.

 


The mall store owners are hoping for a rainy holiday weekend that would drive shoppers to the mall.

 

* New gun law still makes it illegal to have guns in cars at Disney.

 

 

 

Sarasota County dug out a broken sidewalk and readies the site for a new one. The county is responsible for repacing sidewalks.

 

 

This local aloe collection started as one aloe plant and bloomed into over 100 plants.

 

 

* Rain pounds the area with over 2 inches of rain falling in about two hours late Wednesday. Some pockets had 4-6 inches.

 

* Tropical depression off of Africa has all weather eyes tuned to it. It would be two weeks before anything would be of concern for Florida.

 

* State says 301 overpass by I-75 should open today to full thru traffic.

 

* Florida Power and Light gets 8% of 16% rate hike requested. In another matter a customer calls them out on spending 74% of customer contributions for green power on administrative and marketing costs: : "It's a fraud," said a customer the PSC identified as Alexandria Larson. "FPL should be penalized. Who should we indict? That's what I want to know."

FPL Vice President Wade Litchfield said he was offended by that language.
"We have no embarrassment about this program," he said. Well excuse me what do you call it, a rip off?
 

 

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Swimmers get ready to head down the YMCA slide on a hot, windlass day, Monday.

 

* Sarasota County School System figures they saved $1.7 million in electric costs over the previous year. Wow, that's a ton of electricity:)

 


Oh marital bliss has just begun for this couple on their way to their honeymoon in the Bahamas

 

 

High gas prices didn't seem to keep anybody off the road Monday. Highway 41 was packed.

 

* When did bankers become gamblers? When the started offering payment plans where you could pay less then the principal and interest payment. Wachovia Bank just went back to dollars and sense banking.

 

Sam Seltzer's files for bankruptcy. They have 10 Florida locations including Sarasota and Bradenton. The places are packed why would they have to file? Photo of staff from their Sarasota restaurant from an OT50 dining review.

 

Sarasota and Bradenton qualify for higher home loans. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have bumped up the size of mortgage loans they will buy in those designated areas to a high of $729,750, while holding the limit at $417,000 everywhere else.

 

* Executions to be resumed in Florida today by lethal injection. Man who was convicted 16 years ago to bite the bullet if the courts don't stop it.

 

* New state law allows home foreclosures to be auctioned online beginning in July.

 

 


 Some people just don't deserve to be parents. A Sarasota woman in a drunken stupor left her 5 and 3 year old children at a Bradenton Taco Bell and went home to sleep.

 

 

The "Sarasota Bad Boy", David Branch, a local millionaire, will race again this year at the SuperBoat Offshore Races in Sarasota and host an all day Rock Fest off of 301 for the 4th of July weekend. .

 

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* Effective July 1, 2008,  no chiropractor may be employed by a health care clinic unless the clinic has a medical director that is an MD or DO.

 

 


FPL wants a 16% increase due to higher fuel costs to make electricity. FPL serves 90% of the most populated areas in the state. Our local electricity comes from an FPL oil plant just north of us in Parrish.

 

 

 

Kid's beach run Sarasota County sponsors youth runs over the summer. Siesta Beach Runs are at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Venice Municipal Pier Runs are on Wednesday evenings. And Newtown Estate Community Center Runs are on Thursday evenings.  For more information, call 861-5000

 


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   Space Shuttle Discovery as it takes off 5-31-08 from Kennedy Space Center. Traveling at 1,000 mph within the first minute of lift off. OurTown50 staff was there to cover it. View  our special Kennedy Space Center Shuttle page with photos.

 

 


Venice Police Explorers Post 86 will hold a fundraiser car wash at Venice Honda, 985 U.S. 41 Bypass in Venice on Sunday, July 27, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Cost is $6 per vehicle. Venice Honda is matching the donations. For more information, contact Detective J. Kolodgy at 486-2444.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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