Politics & Government
Five Things We Hope You Didn't Miss
Here's a look back at five stories that were of interest to Dunedin residents last week.
An unpopular multiuse trail won’t be going onto Pinehurst Road, city officials said Thursday.
But officials are pushing up a workshop to explore different uses for the federal money that would have funded it before it disappears forever.
The hitch: The deadline to accept the federal grant is Dec. 5, two months before commissioners were scheduled (in February 2012) to review the city’s full bicycle connectivity plan.
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Geneva Fisher only left her house Sept. 24 to buy chicken to go with the shrimp dinner she was preparing.
She returned to find her stove ablaze and her home filled with smoke.
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She forgot to turn off the stove.
Fisher and her daughter, a 17-year-old junior at , ran inside the Sandy Lane home to rescue their small dog from the bedroom — something she admitted she should not have done — and then called 911.
A citizen group in charge of reviewing the city’s constitution is largely in favor of .
The group also wants to offset the first-timer “learning curve” with mandatory training.
The group says it is not proposing a lifetime bar once an elected official's terms are up. If the official wanted to run for the same seat again, he or she could do so, the group says, so long as the person sits out a term. As the charter is written now, officials are elected into four years of service. The group is undecided on capping officials at two or three consecutive terms (eight or 12 years of service, respectively).
Brian Keith Doll, the 50-year-old motorcyclist seriously injured in a Wednesday night crash in Dunedin, died Thursday, Oct. 13.
Doll was treated at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg for life threatening injuries after his motorcycle crashed at 10:20 p.m. on Wednesday.
According to investigators, Doll, a Largo resident, lost control of his motorcycle when he sideswiped a guard rail at 557 Edgewater Dr. in Dunedin in a single vehicle crash.
Deputies from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office have charged a Clearwater man with attempted murder after he was apprehended in Dunedin earlier today.
Per police reports, Martez Allen, 23, of 1008 Pinellas St. in Clearwater, had a domestic dispute last night with his girlfriend, Ashley Cawart, 26. The two share the same residence.
During the dispute, Allen called Cawart and threatened to kill her over a recent breakup. When Cawart arrived home, Allen began shooting at her vehicle. Allen then dragged Cawart out of her vehicle and shot at her at point-blank range.
