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Yesterday, I was sent a picture of a site plan for a Circle K that appears to be wanting to go on the lot on the corner of US 19 and Fort Island Trail. So let's take a look. The plans are 16 pages. You can view them
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Something is not sitting right with me in regards to Betz Farm. It is coming back up on the agenda next meeting due to new information that they received. That new information... a new letter from Dix Development attorney Rob Batsel "demanding" a few things and pointing out
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Today is BOCC Tuesday. As mentioned last week, there are a few agenda items that are out of whack. We will see how the board addresses those things. Hopefully my packages I am expecting arrive early today so I can head down to the meeting, otherwise, I am watching online
asphalt
I am back... for a few days at least. For my real job (photography), this is conference season. I am a brand ambassador for a few different companies in the photography world and that means I travel to different conferences this time of year. I was in Destin since Friday
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In case you missed it, Andy Paden from 10 Tampa Bay News reached out to me yesterday for an interview. He had come across my asphalt plant story and was planning on coming up to Crystal River to do a story and asked if I would be interested in speaking
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Earlier this week, I wrote about the workshop in Crystal River where the city council discussed how to move forward with evaluations for the city manager. At that meeting, Councilmember Chris Ensing called out text messages between myself and the city manager and said that if she were his employee,
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I hope everyone had a great weekend. This cold was something else. I was in Denver on Saturday and it was in the mid 50s. Very little snow, even at higher elevations. I flew back late Saturday night to low 30s, where it had been snowing earlier in the day.
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I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I had the rare opportunity to be off of work (mostly) for the last 4 days. Being a small business owner (including this) means that I am running almost non-stop... and the winter season in the photography world is the most busy
banking
Happy Friday. Back to Crystal River. This will be an update to the Brannen Bank piggyback of the school board banking contract. As mentioned previously, the City of Crystal River opted to go this route to avoid the RFP process. This allowed them to hand pick Brannen Bank for the
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Man, who knew the most commented on post I would have so far is about the ban on new medical marijuana dispensaries. Almost 150 comments on it as of this morning. Appreciate everyone for their input and interaction and for the most part civility. I am going to let people
Public Records
Back to the City of Crystal River today. I was contacted by someone who is having issues with a public records request with the City of Crystal River. This is the records request they made: "I would like to make a public records request for all of Joe Meek&
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County Commission Tuesday where they will discuss the road presentation and sales tax referendum. I will be there as per usual. But today, I want to go back to the West side and talk small town politics and "problems" of being in a small town where everyone knows