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  • Jen Blanco
  • January 7, 2014
GSJGA season tees off

The Greater Sarasota Junior Golf Season kicked off its 2014 season Jan. 5, on the Royal Lakes Course at the Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club.

  • East County
  • Sports
The inaugural class of students enrolled in the program will be at the school today for orientation, beginning at 10 a.m.
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • January 6, 2014
LECOM unveils distance education program

The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) will officially launch its Masters in Health Services Administration distance education program today when students come on campus for orientation.

  • East County
  • Schools
S.M.A.R.T. representatives — Valerie Cloud, Heidi Conover, Bob Staab and Tina Rojas.
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • January 3, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Music on Main

Despite the chilly evening Jan. 3, patrons, with fuzzy muffs nestled over their ears and hot cocoas in their hands, filled Lakewood Ranch Main Street for the monthly Music on Main event.

  • East County
  • News
New Stoneybrook homeowners association members Tom Bakalar and Dick Williams (and Williams’ wife, Barb) came together for coffee Dec. 17 in anticipation of the Jan. 2 turnover date and election.
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • January 3, 2014
Stoneybrook resident-controlled board named

After more than a decade of developer control, nine Stoneybrook residents have assumed control of their community.

  • East County
  • News
Abigail Cobb shows off her freshly-painted face during the October Music on Main event.
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • January 3, 2014
WEEKEND BEST BET: Music on Main

Patrons strolling around from 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 3, on Lakewood Ranch Main Street, will be met with more than the bustle of downtown, as jazz, blues and other music genres fill the air during Music on Main.

  • East County
  • News
Ronni Belser and Lauren McGill
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • January 3, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Jump for Joy for Lexi Brown

Friends and family of Lexi Brown, a Gene Witt Elementary School fifth grader who was killed in January 2013 by her father, gathered Jan. 2 at Jumpin Fun Sports to celebrate the success of Nate's Honor Animal Rescue - the East County shelter where Lexi often volunteered.

  • East County
  • News
Medallion Home Founder Carols Beruff shows off his Riva Trace community in Bradenton — one of various Medallion properties that collectively totaled more than $100 million in sales in 2013.
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • January 2, 2014
Medallion Home celebrates record sales year

Medallion Home closed out 2013 with more than $100 million in sales - a record year for the company.

  • East County
  • News
Katherine Harris and Paul Blackketter, president of the Suncoast Aquatics Nature Center Associates, hope to raise $1 million from the private sector for the World Cup pentathlon finals in 2014.
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • January 2, 2014
Year in Review: December 2013, Pentathlon: a greater vision

Thanks to community involvement, winning four pentathlon events adds to a strategy to become a world-class amateur sports venue.

  • East County
  • News
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 1, 2014
Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch home sells for $850,000

A home in Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Alvaro Joves and Maria Maldonado, of Miami, sold their home at 7217 Greystone St. to Robert Hofmann, of Bradenton, for $850,000. Built in 2011, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,861 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $741,600 in 2011.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
A rendering of the exterior of Bayside Community Church.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 1, 2014
Year in Review: November 2013, Bayside starts new addition

Bayside Community Church broke ground in November on a $16.5 million addition to its East Bradenton campus.

  • East County
  • News
A 14-year-old girl went missing 9:15 a.m. Thursday
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • January 1, 2014
Web Year in Review: November 2013, Missing 14-year-old girl found

Megan Buckley has been found and returned home safely.

  • East County
  • News
Erika Echegaray
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • December 31, 2013
The Good News: Erika Echegaray

Suncoast Polytechnical High School student Erika Echegaray has volunteered for Face Autism for two years.

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  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • December 31, 2013
Make the Observer a world traveler, too

Are you planning a trip in the new year? Make sure to take your East County Observer along!

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • December 31, 2013
Share your best holiday moments

We will run a photo collage of New Year's celebrations in our Jan. 9 issue, so send any pictures you snapped, as well as a description - time, date, place and names of individuals photographed - to [email protected].

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Joseph Schneider
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • December 31, 2013
Ranch youth earns scholarship

GreyHawk Landing resident Joseph Schneider, a junior at Saint Stephen's Episcopal School, has been named the first-place winner in the Voice of Democracy Essay Contest hosted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
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