BARTOW | After nearly three years without a director, the city has hired a new executive director to lead Bartow’s Community Redevelopment Agency. K. Stephen Cox II, a program manager with the Panama City CRA, is scheduled to begin his new job Feb. 9, said City Manager George Long. He was chosen among 17 applicants…
WEST PALM BEACH — A north side advisory board for West Palm Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency voted Friday not to pull money from its budget for a Northwood learning center hoping to get a $175,000 grant to expand, but instead to ask that the CRA come up with the cash. On Friday, the advisory board that…
The postcards marked urgent and “third notice” began arriving about a year ago, heralding what? James Williams didn’t know. They invaded the 76-year-old’s mailbox weekly. “How much longer before I hear from you!?!?” one card shouted. “I’ve done all I can to reach you,” another pleads. While the formats vary, including handwritten letters that upon…