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In any language: English speakers are tuning into World Cup broadcasts in Spanish
Ashleigh Hallam teaches English at her local library in Indiana. She's brushing up on her Spanish by watching the World Cup. Many English speakers in the U.S. are tuning into Spanish broadcasts, even if they don't understand the language. Census…
Coffee cart brews up downtown food truck expansion proposal
A coffee cart unwittingly operating illegally in the parking lot of a downtown business sparked a movement to craft a zoning text amendment to permit mobile food and beverage vendors to peddle their wares in the Downtown Bayfront zone district. Food trucks are permitted in every…
Sarasota County still awaits $225M in FEMA, state disaster funds
In 2016, Hurricane Hermine made the first Florida landfall in the Big Bend area since Hurricane Wilma 11 years earlier. It wasn’t a direct hit on the peninsula, it travelled up the center of the Gulf, but its impact left just more than $7 million in damage for Sarasota County…
City to repair damaged streetlights on Lido Key
The Sarasota City Commission, via consent agenda, authorized entering into a local agency program with the Florida Department of Transportation to repair lighting on Lido Key. FDOT is providing up to $600,037 for the project with a local match of $108,426. The project included…
Manatee teen charged in Sarasota homicide
A Manatee County teen faces a murder charge in connection with the discovery early July 7 of an 18-year-old man found wounded near 15th Street and Central Avenue, police said. William Rosencrantz, 17, was arrested in Manatee County on Wednesday, July 8, police said. He was…
Bring unwanted guns to Sarasota Police on Saturday
Unwanted firearms, pellet guns and BB guns will be accepted at Sarasota Police Department on Saturday, July 11 during the Done with the Gun turn-in event. From 1-5 p.m. at police headquarters, 2099 Adams Lane, officers will accept a variety of items including non-working…
Planning Board member reappointed, another named to fill vacant seat
Only minutes after Sarasota Planning Board Vice Chairman Douglas Christy delivered a brief annual report to the City Commission — one in which he lamented a sometimes one-week notice to review voluminous documents in advance of their meetings — one new member was appointed and a…
Find nearby food trucks with new app
When Josh Barth, 46, consistently found himself missing out when his favorite food trucks were near him, he didn’t just grumble and move on. He started a business. That frustration with pop-up schedules became the inspiration of FoodTrukt, an app designed to connect customers…
How your home is appraised in Manatee County
Every year, each of Manatee County’s approximately 236,000 real estate parcels receives a valuation. Sometimes it goes up. Sometimes it goes down. Most importantly, this appraisal of valuation is the basis of that property owner’s tax bill, which makes it an essential process for…
St. Regis lawyers respond to Longboat arched sign lawsuit
Now that a suit was filed by the town of Longboat Key against the developers of the St. Regis Longboat Key Resort, the resort owner’s lawyers responded to the town’s claims, and a court date was set. Lawyers Morgan Bentley and Brian Goodrich, who have been retained by Chuck…
Sarasota Little League treasurer sentenced to 1 year, restitution
The woman who plead no contest to stealing more than $200,000 last year from Sarasota Little League was sentenced Monday to a year in Sarasota County Jail and was ordered to begin paying $176,000 in restitution upon her release. In court documents, 35-year-old Ahnaysa Kristina…