News Line for Trenton

City's Eyesore Houses Were Hot-Button Topic Meeting
Featuring large on the agenda of Monday night’s regular May meeting of the Trenton City Commission was the eyesore – or “Nuisance Abatement of Unhealthful Premises,” as Mayor Anthony Emanuel terms it more grandiloquently – ordinance the commission passed last year.
Source: Dade County Sentinel

City Is Considering Combining Session
Each month, the Trenton City Commission has an informal work session and then a formal business meeting immediately afterward. At the commission’s regular April meeting on Monday, Trenton Mayor Anthony Emanuel asked: And why is that?
Source: Dade County Sentinel

Board Of Education Snubs Library Party, But City And County Officials Attend In Strength
Attendance at the Friends of the Dade County Library’s March 22 dinner and brainstorming session was about 25, including a healthy showing of leaders from the Dade County and Trenton City commissions.
Source: Dade County Sentinel

City Commission Swears In Powell As New Board Member
Trenton welcomed its newest leader on Monday night as City Clerk Lucretia Houts administered the oath of office to recently appointed Parks and Recreation Commissioner Terry Powell at the city commission’s regular March meeting.
Source: Dade County Sentinel

Library Hopes Leaders Will Offer Assistance
Proponents of the embattled Dade County Public Libraries have high hopes for their upcoming March 22 dinner for community leaders, when they will encourage the powers that determine the library’s fate to discuss ways to save it.
Source: Dade County Sentinel

City Appoints Powell To Fill Vacant Parks And Rec Seat
The Trenton City Commission held its regular monthly meeting Monday at City Hall with a light agenda except for the appointment of someone to fill the unexpired term of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Chuck Cannon who resigned his seat last month.
Source: Dade County Sentinel

City Commissioner Wanted: Apply Within
The Trenton City Commission is in the market for a new parks, recreation and animal control commissioner, and Mayor Anthony Emanuel encourages prospective candidates to come to City Hall and apply within.
Source: Dade County Sentinel

City Seems Set To End Year Squarely In The Red
At the Trenton City Commission’s December meeting Monday night, Mayor Anthony Emanuel announced that despite rosier predictions in previous months, the city now looks like it will end the year some $100,000 in the red.
Source: Dade County Sentinel

City Is Out Of The Real Estate Business
The Trenton City Commission washed its hands officially of home sales last week as, at its regular November meeting, it gratefully accepted the one bid it received for a house city police had seized in a drug operation.
Source: Dade County Sentinel