Our Best Stuff: The CIty Council Sets the Millage Rate, Thousands Come out for Snooty's Birthday, Local Chef on National TV

From Bradenton's most famous resident turning 63 to up-and-comer Manatee High School graduate performing well on national television, here are some of the highlights from the past week:

IN NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

• An estimated 3,000 people came out to the South Florida Museum on Saturday to wish Bradenton’s lovable mascot, , a happy 63rd Birthday.
• Euphemia Haye's sous chef Jamie Gregorich makes her debut on Hell's Kitchen. She makes it through the first week and earns another week on the show. To celebrate Euphemia Haye adds a section to the menu.
• The local American Red Cross offering its eighth season of .
• Southeastern Guide Dogs talks about a day in the

IN CRIME AND COURTS

• Authorities arrested a man suspected in a
• Homicide detectives this week in the nearly three-year-old disappearance case of Sabine Musil-Buehler.
• The Bradenton Police Department is looking for a man accused of using a over the fourth of July weekend.

 IN GOVERNMENT

• The City Council set the at 5.2002, up from 4.9542.  
• The company that wanted to develop a three-story apartment building on a key piece of downtown waterfront to overturn the council's decision.

IN BUSINESS

• Pelot's Rexall Pharmacy has been since it opened in 1894.
• Patch Picks takes a look at five places to and unwind.