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The Manatee County, Florida, restaurants with the most violations in last 30 days
Recent restaurant inspections in Manatee County have brought attention to food safety practices in several local eateries. The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation conducted 185 inspections over the past 30 days, with 146 restaurants passing on their first visit. However, 39 establishments required follow-up inspections due to violations.
Sarasota beach club buried with sand from Hurricane Helene
The Suntide Island Beach Club in Lido Beach, has been left in a state of devastation following the impact of Hurricane Helene. The hurricane's record-breaking storm surge swept large amounts of sand into every room on the ground level with some rooms up to 4 feet of sand.
'Harper was loved': Siesta Key neighbors find box of ashes washed in by Hurricane Helene
SIESTA KEY, Fla. — Hurricane Helene has turned people's lives topsy-turvy, and many have lost precious lifelong and irreplaceable mementos to the disaster. That sense of immense loss is why one woman in Siesta Key is on a mission to get someone's memory back home to them. She hopes to reunite a box of ashes with the rightful owner after it washed up in their yard from the storm.
Sarasota County, beach communities continue Helene cleanup effort
More than a week after Hurricane Helene's wind and storm surge caused historic damage to the Sarasota and Manatee counties' coastline, local governments are organizing and focusing their clean-up and recovery efforts. Sarasota County Solid Waste Director Brian Usher said in a statement on Thursday that the county is expanding its collection of...
Helene’s powerful storm surge killed 12 near Tampa. They didn’t have to die
Hurricane Helene’s storm surge struck Florida fast and hard when it slammed into Gulf Coast communities near St. Petersburg. Longtime residents had never seen anything like the 8-foot wall of water that pushed ashore, and that was the problem. Because the Sept. 26 storm surge was unprecedented, many people living near the beaches ignored mandatory evacuation orders and stayed behind, thinking the warnings were exaggerated. Some people still escaped the rising waters and others were rescued. But 12 died from the surge, including a retired restaurant owner, a former hairdresser, a beach lover and a teacher who was about to retire.
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