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Mayor, two commissioners re-elected in Belleair Bluffs

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Belleair Bluffs Mayor Chris Arbutine and commissioners Suzy Sofer and Jack Nazario were re-elected Tuesday when they were unopposed at the close of qualifying. Each has been reelected to a two-year term. Arbutine first came on the council in 2000. He successfully ran for mayor the next year and has only been opposed twice since that time. He said he remembers former Pinellas County Sheriff Everett Rice telling him, “Chris, there’s only two ways to run – scared or unopposed.”…

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On the beaches, voters return familiar faces to their city halls

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Voters re-elected incumbents in Belleair, Belleair Bluffs and Indian Rocks Beach as residents headed to the polls on March 10 to cast their ballots in their municipal elections. The residents of Belleair Bluffs gave Chris Arbutine a new two-year term and re-elected all three incumbent members of the city commission. Joe Barkley will finish out the remaining year of a two-year term. Suzy Sofer and John “Jack” Nazario outpolled Robert Russo to win full two-year terms. Winning with more than…

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