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USRowing CEO Glen Merry announces his organization has selected Nathan Benderson Park as the Olympic trials rowing site in 2016.
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 12, 2015
Park selected for Olympic rowing trials

USRowing announced today Nathan Benderson Park will host the Olympic Rowing Trials in 2016.

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Leila Madrid finishes painting an orange flower.
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  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • June 12, 2015
East County campers imagine, craft art

East County children perfect their painting and other art skills during Jackie's Art Club two-week summer camp at Imagine School at Lakewood Ranch

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Nine-year-old Lane Tomlinson enjoyed participating in a series of tackling drills.
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  • Jen Blanco
  • June 11, 2015
Young Mustangs tackle the gridiron

Eighty-six players hit the gridiron for Lakewood Ranch’s High’s annual Summer Football Camp, which began June 8 and runs through June 12.

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Jackson Searcy enjoys a game of Duck, Duck Goose.
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  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • June 11, 2015
East County campers play and learn at Everest VBS

East County church, Living Lord Lutheran, hosts five-day Everest VBS camp for 55 children ages 3 to 11

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Jacob Howard, a LECOM student, explains some x-rays to high school participants.
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  • Jessica Salmond
  • June 11, 2015
Local students explore medicine with LECOM's Medical Science Academy

Lake Erie College of Medicine Bradenton's two-week program exposes almost-graduates to medical opportunities.

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Photo by Jen Blanco
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  • Jen Blanco
  • June 10, 2015
Pro league tackles Lakewood Ranch

Major League Football executives announced the new professional league will move its headquarters to the Premier Sports Campus.

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San Marco’s anchor tenant space has been vacant since the plaza opened.
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 10, 2015
New owner secures San Marco anchor space

A new owner believes opportunity is ripe at San Marco Plaza’s anchor space, once planned as a second location for the now-closed Golden Apple Dinner Theatre.

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The Sarasota Crew will be sending 46 rowers across six different boats to compete in this year’s youth national championships.
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • June 10, 2015
Bound for Nationals

More than 50 local athletes will compete in the 2015 USRowing Youth National Championships, held this weekend at Nathan Benderson Park.

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File photoSome residents in Summerfield Bluffs saw high water levels for the Braden River behind their homes in June 2012 after Tropical Storm Debby.
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  • Kristen Herhold
  • June 10, 2015
Local officials eye hurricane season

As hurricane season begins, officials urge residents to plan ahead during the calm before the storms.

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Jiggs Landing has a new boat ramp as the result of a $507,000 project that took three months to complete. Photo by Pam Eubanks
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 10, 2015
County fishes for Jiggs Landing proposals

Manatee County officials hope a new RFP will bait potential park vendors.

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  • Observer Staff
  • June 10, 2015
News briefs: East County 6.11.2015

Interchange bids with FDOT; Waterlefe shores up agreement; Commission increases fee for growth

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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 10, 2015
Microsoft grants $1 million in technology to charities

Technology giant Microsoft’s first window into the Southwest Florida market will come with a donation of nearly $1 million in technology to local nonprofits.

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Hannah Arduini’s favorite subjects are history and English. Photo by Pam Eubanks
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 10, 2015
Conversation with Hannah Arduini

Hannah Arduini,13, spent four and a half months researching former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s efforts to pass the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Carolyn Eliason submitted this photo, taken in Lakewood Ranch.
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 10, 2015
East County photo contest winner: June 11

Carolyn Eliason submitted this photo, taken in Lakewood Ranch.

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Cheryl McGrew
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • June 10, 2015
Seabreeze administrators move to East County

Attention, Gullet and McNeal elementary students and parents: Meet your new principals.

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