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BROOKSVILLE –– Water restrictions could be coming in the near future. The board of directors for the Southwest Florida Water Management District, commonly known as Swiftmud, took the first step ...
SARASOTA –– From all reports, it was an uneventful day as beaches in Sarasota and Charlotte counties reopened to the public after a month of being closed due to the ...
STAFF REPORT SARASOTA - DOH Sarasota will host three by appointment only COVID-19 drive-thru testing sites in North Port tomorrow and Laurel on Thursday. These community based COVID-19 testing events are ...
SOUTH COUNTY –– The qualifying period for local offices isn’t for another month yet, but that didn’t stop the three candidates for the open District 5 seat from engaging in ...
SARASOTA –– A program to assist small businesses in the county struggling during the COVID-19 crisis will begin accepting applications Monday. That’s the good news. The bad news: as of ...
VENICE –– While Sarasota County commissioners decided Wednesday morning to allow limited access to county-owned beaches, the three gulf-front cities are not following the county’s lead. Beaches in the cities ...
SARASOTA –– Come Monday, Sarasota County residents will be able to visit their valued beaches once again. Closed since mid-March, county commissioners unanimously agreed today to allow residents access to ...
STAFF REPORT SARASOTA –– The Sarasota County Health Department will open test sites for the COVID-19 coronavirus at two locations in mid and south county later this week. One site ...
SARASOTA –– Expect another meeting of the Sarasota County commissioners dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic tomorrow. Just like their prior two meetings, items related to the pandemic will be front ...
SOUTH COUNTY –– For the past three hurricane seasons, residents of South County and in particular the city of Venice, have been bereft of a local hurricane shelter. Indeed, during ...
Staff Report SARASOTA –– With many people feeling cabin fever as they remain at home due to COVID-19, the Sarasota County Extension office continues to develop online learning opportunities to ...
SARASOTA –– That’s a question that’s likely to spark a lot of discussion during Wednesday’s upcoming county commission meeting. Commissioner Christian Ziegler added the topic under his report for discussion, ...
From Sarasota Memorial Hospital Last week, Sarasota Memorial Hospital received a much-awaited shipment of testing supplies to begin processing COVID-19 tests for admitted patients in the hospital. The in-house testing ...
SARASOTA –– Among the lesser publicized provisions of the CARES Act was $4 billion in funding for Emergency Solutions Grants and now, Sarasota County plans to tap into those funds ...
SARASOTA –– Less traveling, fewer visitors. Budget officials with Sarasota County’s four cities don’t yet know the extent of the damage to their revenue streams, but they all anticipate seeing ...
That Sarasota County will face a loss of revenue from the country’s battered economy is a given. How great that impact will be is unknown. But the county’s budget office ...
Sarasota County residents have heard and are heeding official warnings and orders regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the word from county officials Friday morning in a press briefing to ...
Amid concerns over health and safety, the trial date in litigation challenging the redistricting of Sarasota County commission districts has been pushed back. During a telephone conference with attorneys from ...
Put this on the list of COVID-19 casualties. An initiative by Sarasota County commissioners to place a referendum on the November ballot to create a mental health district for the ...
STAFF REPORT With researchers worldwide racing to find a treatment for the COVID-19 virus, Sarasota Memorial Hospital officials announced Thursday that the hospital has joined two national clinical trials related ...
STAFF REPORT SARASOTA –– Over the past two days––Tuesday and Wednesday––three more people have died as a result of the COVID-19 disease Sarasota Memorial Hospital officials reported Wednesday. That brings ...
SARASOTA –– Anxious to help local small businesses weather the economic downturn, Sarasota County commissioners yesterday approved a new loan program to keep them afloat until federal stimulus funds arrive ...
Karen Rushing, clerk of the circuit court and comptroller for Sarasota County, has announced a couple of changes due to the COVID-19 crisis. First, pursuant to an administrative order from ...
SARASOTA –– Expect another short meeting of the Sarasota County commissioners tomorrow with COVID-19 items dominating the discussion. Just as they did in their March 24 meeting, commissioners will be ...
