Sarasota County adopts biannual salary ordinance under new charter
Carlton and fellow commissioners clash over preventing current members from approving pay raises while in office but vote to follow state guidelines. The charter now requires an odd numbered year ordinance to set salaries, with raises effective in the next term and tied to state recommendations.
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Sarasota County
Commission
Mabry Carlton
Carlton
Jim Greenwald
Bob Anderson
Ed Maroney
Maroney
Jerry Hente
Hente
Anderson
Venice grant deadlines and community aid concerns
Editor letters question deadlines for an $1.8 million sewer grant and a July 15 DER review deadline. Gary Bennett and Wayne Hall are cited on forms and appeals, while local volunteer group FISH appeals for more drivers amid aging buses and hospital trips. A Nokomis resident shored a drainage ditch with discarded material.
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Gary Bennett
U.S
Redington and Associates
DER
B.C. Conklin
Conklin, Porter & Holmes, Engineers, Inc
Wayne C. Hall
Environmental Regulatory Commission
Hall
Purolator
Lyons Bay Road
Help FISH Call for Volunteers in Venice Charity Drive
An all volunteer charity seeks immediate help in Venice to assist the FISH organization. Former president urges residents to donate time rather than funds and to call today to support the endangered species of service.
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Sarasota
Venice
FISH
Letters to the Editor Policy Notice
Community notice requests letters to be signed with full address and phone number. Readers are urged to keep submissions under 200 words to avoid editor trimming. Address letters to Letters to the Editor P.O. Box 1028 Venice Florida 33595.
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P.O. Box
Venice
Love and Hate at the Same Time
A reader asks if love and hate can coexist and shares mixed feelings as emotions surge, noting a continued discussion on Page 6.
Thanksgiving reflections on gratitude in hard times
A columnist looks back at 1982 Thanksgiving amid job losses and national worry. He lists personal gratitudes from family support to a stable city life, praises a local water plant project, and ends with well wishes to readers.
Thanksgiving gratitude list from a reader in 1982
A personal Thanksgiving note listing daily blessings from health and love to home comforts and literature. The author thanks a husband, cats, parks, books by Galsworthy and Whitman, chocolate, candles, TV fare, and quiet mornings, with a playful nod to not living in big cities.
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St. Peter
Moscow
Peking
Los Angeles
Galsworthy
Waugh
Whitman
Peachie’s
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Florida Press Service
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Derek Dunn-Ranhkin
Don Moore
Rod Vetter
Sam Dillon
Robert A. Vedder
Lang Capasso
Edward Faile Jr
Dorothy Lippstreuer
Jim Beans
David Martin
Ray Porter
Jim Gouvellis
Chris Kauffmann
Beth Gourlay
Helen Hastings
Paul Schmidt
Barry
Florida
Murph
By Mike Murphy
Mudd
Brokaw
Dow Chemical
County Commission
Decidedly Denison
Norah Denison Scanlan
Godiva
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