WEEKEND BEST BET: Fourth of July on Longboat Key

By Robin Hartill
| 4:00 a.m. July 1, 2011

Anthony Cucci, Jack Laviolette and Jack Coleman attended last year's Boom Boom on the Bay.

Longboat Key
Neighbors

This year’s Fourth of July celebration will start out with a bang: Fireworks will light up Sarasota Bay around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2, kicking off this year’s Fourth of July festivities, with seating and dining specials available at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub, 760 Broadway, and Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant, 800 Broadway.

Call Mar Vista at 383-2391 or Moore’s at 383-1748.

The festivities march on with Longboat Key Freedom Fest at 9 a.m. Monday, July 4, at Bicentennial Park. Participants are invited to wear their best red, white and blue garb for a parade around Bay Isles Road. Then, the event continues with old-fashioned games and breakfast items such as pancakes, sausages, waffles and pastries, all of which will be available at the good, old-fashioned price of $1 each, along with a butterfly release by the Longboat Key Garden Club.

For information, call 383-2466.

Contact Robin Hartill at [email protected].