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Dates set for hearings on Drift-In application

Mar 10, 2025 – Leslie Lake
February 26, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Commissioners pass resolution to protect municipal clerk privacy

Commissioners pass resolution to protect municipal clerk privacy

BRADENTON BEACH – City com­missioners have approved a resolution urging the Florida Legislature to provide a public records exemption protecting the personal information of municipal clerks and emplo…
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February 24, 2025
By Leslie Lake
City outlines 'deficiencies' in Cushing's work

City outlines ‘deficiencies’ in Cushing’s work

BRADENTON BEACH – Mayor John Chappie read aloud a memo at a Feb. 20 City Commission meeting addressing the job performance of former city Building Official Darin Cushing. The memo outlined what the…
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February 24, 2025
By Leslie Lake
City releases audio of Cushing suspension

City releases audio of Cushing suspension

BRADENTON BEACH – The city has released a Jan. 22 audio re­cording from the meeting between Mayor John Chappie and former Building Official Darin Cushing in which Cushing was suspended from the city’…
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February 24, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Cosby responds to Cushing allegations

Cosby responds to Cushing allegations

BRADENTON BEACH – Police Chief and Public Works Director John Cosby responded at a Feb. 20 commission meeting to allegations made by former Building Official Darin Cushing that he was pres­sured to a…
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February 24, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Pines residents ask commission to deny zoning change requests

Pines residents ask commission to deny zoning change requests

BRADENTON BEACH – Pines residents asked the city on Feb. 20 to deny any future land use or zoning change requests for the Pines Trailer Park by Pines Park Investors LLC or its manager, Shawn Kaleta…
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February 18, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Pines homeowners offered more time in exchange for titles

Pines homeowners offered more time in exchange for titles

BRADENTON BEACH – Pines Park homeowners may be able to extend their tenancy under conditions that include relinquishing the titles to their mobile homes to the park ownership. In a Feb. 4 email to P…
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February 17, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Former building official alleges pressure to condemn properties, threats

Former building official alleges pressure to condemn properties, threats

BRADENTON BEACH – For­mer city Building Official Darin Cushing alleges that he saw the city attorney and a well-known developer drive around the city together looking for hurricane-damaged structures…
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February 17, 2025
By Leslie Lake
City approves building official, floodplain manager candidates

City approves building official, floodplain manager candidates

BRADENTON BEACH – The city has gotten one step closer to finding a full-time replacement for former Building Official Darin Cush­ing. Cushing, a contractual employee of M.T. Causley, was suspended by…
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February 10, 2025
By Leslie Lake
FEMA review may jeopardize flood insurance, buildings

FEMA review may jeopardize flood insurance, buildings

BRADENTON BEACH – The city’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) insurance rate discounts, the ability to obtain flood insurance, and even some buildings may be in jeopardy after FEMA reviews the…
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February 10, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Chiles/Perry/Kaleta not-for-profit dissolved

Chiles/Perry/Kaleta not-for-profit dissolved

BRADENTON BEACH – Bradenton resident Rhea (Ashley) Chiles has dissolved the short-lived Together as Bradenton Beach Inc. not-for-profit corporation she formed in November with Bradenton Beach City At…
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