Staff ReportsDecember 31, 2021
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Local candidates will be on the ballot Mar. 15.
Tag: Belleair
Staff ReportsDecember 31, 2021
Kelly HayesFebruary 3, 2021
36min1099
Elections: Coming to a town near you.
Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 18, 2020
12min859
More than two dozen cities have March elections.
Scott PowersAugust 3, 2020
3min318
Dozens of journalists, Republican leaders mixed.
Phil AmmannMarch 13, 2018
2min191
Longtime Belleair Mayor Gary Katica has easily defeated his relatively unknown challenger, Spencer Connerat, Tuesday evening. Katica, 84, has served as mayor of the small Pinellas County community for a dozen years, any took a decisive 83 percent of the vote, according to the county supervisor of elections unofficial results. The mayor had refused to […]
Jeff RosenfieldJanuary 22, 2018
8min349
Last week, incumbent Belleair Mayor Gary Katica spoke with Florida Politics about his opponent in the upcoming election, 49-year-old Spencer Connerat. The 84-year-old Katica, first elected in 2007 and ran unopposed in the last three elections, called out Connerat for his inexperience when it comes to town affairs as well as what he characterized as […]
Jeff RosenfieldJanuary 15, 20187min393
Longtime Belleair resident and Mayor Gary Katica isn’t one to mince words. In fact, the 84-year-old ex-police commissioner from New York recently admitted he is a “no B.S. guy.” So, it’s no surprise that when Katica, who moved to Belleair in 1984, was asked about having to run for a fourth consecutive term against relative […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorMarch 11, 2015
6min223
It was all about the incumbents Tuesday during a quiet municipal election in eight Pinellas cities. Voters hit the ballot boxes in beach communities, a couple of north county cities, and Kenneth City. The most hotly contested races came out of Kenneth City where a bunch of flamingos made waves. The flock of flamingos popped […]