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Sarasota News Leader December 28, 2012 Page 33 lane closure until Monday, June 11, Hatchell says. The contractor and crew for the Stickney Point Bridge project ���know that they have to be done before those lane closures start on the north bridge,��� Hatchell adds. ��������� The north Siesta bridge opens for boat traffic before rehabilitation work gets under way in June. File photo JUNE 4 Because heavy rains on June 1 delayed completion of a guardrail project on the Stickney Point Bridge on the south end of Siesta Key, intermittent lane closures on that bridge might continue through Thursday, June 7, the District One spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Transportation tells The Sarasota News Leader. Those closures would be between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. only, said Lauren Hatchell, public information officer for the FDOT in Bartow. Erroneous information published early June 4 by another Sarasota publication had residents fretting that lane closures on the Stickney Point Bridge would overlap the coming lane closure on the north Siesta bridge as the rehabilitation of that bridge gets under way. The north bridge project starts June 5, but the contactor is not planning any With the qualifying period officially having begun at noon June 4, an attorney in Venice vying for Jon Thaxton���s Sarasota County Commission seat and the two incumbent county commissioners are among a number of candidates for local office who already have ���Qualified��� notations at the ends of their names on the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections list. Republican Charles Hines is the only candidate for the District 5 County Commission seat to have qualified for that office by 5 p.m. Four other Republican challengers have filed for the race: Randy McLendon and Louis D. Rosenfield, both of Englewood, and Vanessa J. Carusone and William Brian Slider, both of Venice. Thaxton, who had planned to seek a fourth term on the county board, was prevented from doing so by a Florida Supreme Court ruling upholding commission term limits as outlined in county charters. Thaxton announced June 1 that he would be challenging incumbent Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent in the Republican primary. ��������� The Sarasota city commissioners apply their own version of local preference, cutting the list of potential city managers to five from eight. The three who were dropped were all from out of state. It is the last you will hear of John Gabor of Michigan, Michael Hein of Arizona and Andrew Mair of New Jersey. The