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

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

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Oct 29, 2021
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Weekly roundup: School tax election + violent crime is up in Manatee + Lakewood Ranch library + new Bradenton grocery store + Ringling Bros. circus to return
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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…

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