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July Gardening Guide coming soon 'Sarasota Gardening Guide' by Patricia Porchey. Gardening
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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. Photo:Courtesy Sarasota County.
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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Sarasota Memorial daily costs to borrow money goes up by $32,000 per day as bond market downgrades their bonds due to bond insurers.
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:)
* 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."
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:)
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.
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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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. 