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What you need to know about Florida today
› What’s next for Veransa, the new company consolidating Florida’s green waste composting market
Veransa is rolling up the Florida green waste market via acquisitions, with three deals within the past year and further expansion on the way. Backed by private equity firm RFE Investment Partners, Veransa Group officially launched last summer with the acquisition of two companies. This included Consolidated Resource Recovery, described as “the largest yard waste collections and recycling network in Florida,” and Florida Organic Solutions, an organic compost manufacturer.
› 75 years later: A look back on how veterans transformed FSU
As Florida State University celebrates Veterans Day on Nov. 11, it also provides the university community an opportunity to reflect on the contributions of military veterans to the university over the past 75 years and how they’ve helped shape today’s Top 20 public institution. The end of World War II in 1945 created a post-war boom and set in motion transformative changes for higher education in Tallahassee. Large numbers of veterans returned from war and enrolled in college, using the G.I. Bill of the era to finance their educations.
› North Port to revisit charging Ian victims $27,000 to reconnect to water and sewer service
The city of North Port will revisit provisions that currently require people who temporarily disconnect, then reconnect to city water and sewer service to pay roughly $27,000 in fees to rejoin the utility. Once the staff has determined how a $55.95 base fee for service is tied to the payment of bonds issued for sewer expansion, they will return to the City Commission with options for providing relief to customers facing steep fees because of Hurricane Ian.
› Want to donate, Tampa Bay? Metropolitan Ministries has holiday tents, pop-ups
At a tent the size of a football field, humming refrigerated trailers await donated turkeys and hams. Volunteers are just starting to stack cans of green beans, corn and sweet potatoes that will soon to be part of holiday meals for neighbors in need. A section of the tent where they’ll put donated Christmas presents — the bikes, the Barbies — is cleared and at the ready. It’s almost like a moment of calm before the party gets started.
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