Weekly roundup: School tax election + violent crime is up in Manatee + Lakewood Ranch library + new Bradenton grocery store + Ringling Bros. circus to return

A few Manatee County headlines -- and a headline about manatees -- you might have missed

One of the bigger disappointments of our winter of pandemic discontent was when my wife and I drove up to the Manatee Viewing Center across from TECO’s Big Bend Power Station and found that it was closed.

Not that surprising, really, but a really big bummer, for those who like to view hundreds of manatees in their natural environs — or at least where the…