Severe weather brought a tornado and more than 2 inches of rain to the Sarasota-Bradenton area over the weekend, causing an estimated $1 million in damage and injuring one woman.
The National Weather Service confirmed on Monday that an EF 1 tornado touched down in Bradenton on Saturday at about 5:45 p.m. with estimated winds of about 95 mph. The tornado started about two miles west of Bayshore Gardens in the area of The Fairways at El Conquiastador; it was about 50 yards wide and traveled about a half-mile.
“There were five-unit townhomes that sustained major damage, with a rough estimate of over $1 million from that tornado,” weather service meteorologist John McMichael said. “The tornado was moving to the southeast, and the majority of the damage was on the east side of the homes.”
Around Amherst: Citizen involvement in town budget likely to be put off COVID
Staff Writer
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST An initiative embedded in the Amherst charter to involve residents in town government by offering them a chance to propose various programs and projects annually is unlikely to get off the ground this year.
A commission preparing a final report for June 1 recently informed Town Manager Paul Bockelman that the COVID-19 pandemic makes such a venture known as participatory budgeting challenging to launch.
The charter requires that a commission propose “a measure to adopt participatory budgeting or other similar method of resident participation in the budgeting process of Amherst.”
In less than three months, DeBary must show the state how it plans on cleaning up Gemini Springs where an excessive nitrogen load has been attributed to septic systems and urban turfgrass fertilizer.
And those plans, once established, could take 20 years and more than $50 million to finish, City Manager Carmen Rosamonda said. It s another mandate and burden that s put on local governments without any funding, Rosamonda said by phone Friday.
For that reason, he believes the state should cover the cost of removing the 2,000-plus septic tanks in the Gemini Springs priority focus area, which the Department of Environmental Protection defines as vulnerable areas where pollution sources pose the highest risk due to proximity to a spring and permeable [sandy] soil conditions.
Future Is Unknown For South Jersey’s Oldest Land-Based Lighthouse
Well, it doesn t look like visitors will get to check-out New Jersey s oldest land-based lighthouse anytime soon.
That news is a shame in and of itself since the area on which the East Point Lighthouse sits would probably start attracting more and more visitors this time of year as the weather starts to get warmer once again. According to
The issue in question surrounds the DEP s stabilization project which, according to a representative from the historical society, would impact the structure s first floor. The Maurice River Historical Society says it can t agree to the proposed lease agreement unless changes are made to that plan. It seems that the Department of Environmental Protection thinks that moving forward with the proposed plan will address erosion issues, while the president of the historical society says that the changes suggested for the first floor wouldn t address the issue at all. In fact, the pres
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