Union pickets council as budget cuts loom in city
David Pounds asked if taxes would fall as services shrink and questioned the 100000 cut from the personnel pool. Kalajian urged reinstating 100000 plus 36000 for fringe benefits, proposing shifts totaling 50000 to storm drainage and paving while cautioning staff reductions may occur. The council approved transfers and a 5000000 total budget cut, noting a millage drop to 5.429.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Pounds
Council
Rieth
John Kalajian
Kalajian
R.L
Bob) Anderson
General Fund
B.H. (Berry) Walker
HAV Volunteers Support Venice Hospital Through Decades of Fundraising
Since opening Venice Hospital in 1951 volunteers of the HAV fundraise with annual White Elephant sales in February and Country Cupboard and Christmas Bazaars each October. They also run the Hospitality Shop and aided the hospital’s early food service in Worthington Annex. The group has aided the hospital through six prior expansions and plans to continue through future projects.
Arbuckle, Colombia suspect rearrest in Florida drug case
Convicted drug smuggler Robert B. Arbuckle of Nokomis had his appeal revoked after a Friday Fort Lauderdale arrest. He was with Jaime Carvajal of Colombia, sought for missing a September court hearing on drug smuggling charges. Carvajal faces a $1 million bond. additional Sarasota County bond stands at $350,000. Other co defendants remain jailed in Sarasota Broward and Charlotte counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert B. Arbuckle
Nokomis
Fort Lauderdale
Jaime Augusto Carvajal
Colombia
South America
Arbuckle
Carvajal
Sarasota
Homer Ross
North Port
Ross
Charlotte County
Alan LeBeau
Richard Stanley
Trail
Sarasota County
Broward County
David John Berry
Lexington Street
Gary Girard
Middlesex Place
Charles Yochim
Cape Haze
Danny William Baker
Cornelius Circle
Andrew Irving Denny
Amputee veteran Dick Lambert aids Venice Hospital patients
Dick Lambert, a former Middletown mayor and honored disabled veteran, plans to visit Venice Hospital patients to share experience with limb loss. He crafts specialized prosthetics, embraces new tech, and juggles volunteer work with veterans groups while relocating to Florida with wife Louise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambert
DuPont
Delaware
Commission On Employment of
Middletown
Del
American Veterans
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Maryland
Florida
Venice Hospital
Betty L. Blackman
Dick Lambert
Venice Debates Sewage Plant Plan Amid Health Fears
Venice commissioners clash over regional sewage options with Saba and Sandegren backing a local plant proposal. Chairman Beverly Clay and commissioners Rhodes Neville oppose, arguing large systems fail to meet needs. Vote 3 to 2 rejects the plan, leaving Venice to choose next steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsborough County
City of
Sarasota
Saba
Commission
Beverly Clay
Venice
Larry Rhodes
Sandegren
Clay, Saba
James Neville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Union Pickets Council
Bill Gibson
Hav
Worthing
Alfresco
Maurice Aldrich
Aldrich
Macfarlane
Pan American Financial Services, Inc
Tamiami Trail
Louise
Sorrento East
Middletown-Odessa-Townsend
Veterans’ Groups
The
Disabled
Venice Avenue
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!