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Florida House District 74: Lisa Stortstrom

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Florida House District 72: Drake Buckman

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State Representative District 72: Fiona McFarland

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Florida House District 71: Will Robinson

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Florida House District 71: Andy Mele

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Children's book decades in the making

Daughter follows through in publishing her mom's children's story.

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Guests of the 2019 Taste of Downtown mingle on the main stage of the Sarasota Opera House.
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Taste of Downtown goes digital for 2020

Annual event benefits Sarasota Opera's Youth Opera.

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Florida Senate District 23: Robert Kaplan

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U.S. House of Representatives District 16: Margaret Good

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Commissioner Nancy Detert was against the change, saying it does do enough to encourage affordable housing in the county.
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Sarasota County could relax affordable housing requirements

Following a state directive, commissioners could get rid of an affordable housing mandate that requires developers to include affordable housing units in their plans.

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23 Sarasota students named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists

Finalists for the program will be announced in February.

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Artists Paul Lee and Julie Kanapaux paint a mural at the Lido pavilion honoring the wade-in protests against segregation at Sarasota’s beaches.
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Murals depict history of Lido Beach

Artwork going up at the Lido pavilion showcases the fight for desegregation in Sarasota and a former architectural landmark.

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A video featured on the third-party site BrainPop features the Black Lives Matter Movement.
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Parents protest after Black Lives Matter video shown to students

The video was featured in the current events section on BrainPOP, a third-party vendor.

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  • September 21, 2020
County launches dashboard to monitor federal relief assistance

As of Monday, one business application had been approved, removing $20,000 from the county's $14.5 million.

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Sarasota County opened a new fire station on Apex Road.
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Sarasota County opens Apex fire station

The station, which is located adjacent to Celery Fields, is one of three new stations the county has planned.

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