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Andria Piekarz with Julianna Burns and Carlos Solorzano
  • By Janet Combs
  • March 24, 2025
Mote's fifth annual Farm to Fillet attracts largest crowd yet
Mary Beth Schiavone opens the 2025 Couture for the Cure show.
  • By Dana Kampa
  • March 24, 2025
Biannual Couture for the Cure boosts MS research funding
Sandra Duryea keeps her eye on the ball through shamrock sunglasses.
  • By Dana Kampa
  • March 23, 2025
Longboat Key Tennis Center women bid farewell to season with festive frivolity
Maya and Ross Kellman
  • By Janet Combs
  • March 23, 2025
ODA welcomes supporters to campus for annual Banyan Ball
Luci LeClaire and Jillian Marto
  • By Janet Combs
  • March 23, 2025
SPAF shows it can-can at annual gala with 'Moulin Rouge' theme
Laura George pours wine for Jason Campbell and his mother Colleen Campbell.
  • By Ian Swaby
  • March 23, 2025
Sarasota Wine Festival brings wines from around the world
Janet Zumfelde of Purses Just 4 U said Dag Fest was perfect for her wares. The late Dagmar Beavers, whose property hosted the festival March 22 in Myakka City, was described as somewhat of a "hippie" by her friends.
  • By Jay Heater
  • March 22, 2025
Dag Fest celebrates Dagmar Beavers, and a bit of her hippie lifestyle
The Women's Resource Center President and CEO Ashley Brown with Mandy Quinones, Kia Celestin, Jill Cherbow and Lillian Elliott
  • By Janet Combs
  • March 21, 2025
Women's Resource Center hosts Supported Scholar Luncheon
Fifth grader Grace Welden (front), won the grand champion dairy goat award. She is pictured here with her goat Paddy Whack and three generations of family members involved in agriculture: her grandfather Chuck Johnston, aunt Sarah Herlihy, brother Eli Welden, 5, mother Katie Johnston, father JR Welden, grandmother Peggy Johnston and aunt Jessica Duncan.
  • By Ian Swaby
  • March 19, 2025
Community finds a spotlight at Sarasota County Fair
Paul Sykes presents a framed photo print of Li Jian Volk painting Megan Howell.
  • By Ian Swaby
  • March 19, 2025
Second Heart Homes' annual art auction brings support and surprises
Jack Corcoran, his cousin Leo Martinez, and Jas Sawyer and Luci Duke, fellow New College students of Corcoran. "We love this bar. It's one of our favorites," Corcoran said.
  • By Ian Swaby
  • March 18, 2025
Shamrock Pub celebrates St. Patrick’s Day
Genny Resch, visiting from Maryland to see the Orioles play, makes friends with Bill Oludwig and Cha Cha Sunshine at Lynches Pub & Grub on Saint Patrick's Day.
  • By Dana Kampa
  • March 18, 2025
St. Armands turns into St. Patrick's Circle for holiday celebrations
Bird Key Yacht Club Commodore Michael Landis welcomes attendees to a celebration of the club house's final month before demolition and reconstruction.
  • By Dana Kampa
  • March 17, 2025
Bird Key Yacht Club starts countdown to demo day
Nathan Clary parks a one-of-a-kind 1974 Ferrari 246 GTS Dino at the YachtRodders spring car show.
  • By Dana Kampa
  • March 17, 2025
Gems of car world showcased at Sarasota Yacht Club show
Ireland's Paul O'Shea gives Spy a congratulatory pat after a clean run in the Split Rock Jumping Tour Finale at TerraNova Saturday. O'Shea won the championship of the $100,000 event.
  • By Jay Heater
  • March 16, 2025
Irish rider captures Split Rock Jumping Tour Finale at TerraNova
Sara, Erik and Isabella Stream attend the Irish Celtic Festival with "Most Creative Costume" winner Daisy.
  • By Lesley Dwyer
  • March 15, 2025
Great to be Irish, or a dog, at the Lakewood Ranch Irish Celtic Festival
Barbara Romig admires her sister Carol Kluding's acrylic painting, titled "Olympiad."
  • By Lesley Dwyer
  • March 15, 2025
University Park goes 'all-in' on annual art show
Alex Huppe and Jeryl Schriever pose with Huppe's 1937 Buick Special in front of Florida Studio Theatre.
  • By Janet Combs
  • March 14, 2025
‘Jersey Boys’ inspires Florida Studio Theatre's annual Shindig: Oh What a Night
Isa Englebert asks who Allan Kennedy was speaking with on the pink telephone.
  • By Janet Combs
  • March 12, 2025
Black Party celebrates second act for Urbanite Theatre
Back row: Seniors Baron Dennis, Amari Lopez, Elias Juckett-Malone, Marisa VonBender, Matthew Crawford, Parker Wilding and Shen Miller. Front Row: Seniors Ella Collier, Emma Grimes, and Alexa Smith, junior Camila Diaz and senior Chase Wanless
  • By Ian Swaby
  • March 12, 2025
Teen Court of Sarasota honors largest group of scholarship recipients
Roland Marcotte and board Chair Stacie Herrera
  • By Lori Sax
  • March 11, 2025
Jewish Family and Children's Service of the Suncoast springs up Hope in Bloom
Elle McComb, Janice Walton and Lauren McComb Dixon
  • By Lori Sax
  • March 11, 2025
Selby Gardens hosts elegant affair with Garden to Plate Wine Dinner
Kim Hinkle and Erin Guzzo
  • By Janet Combs
  • March 11, 2025
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto celebrates 2025 Youth of the Year
Resident Lenny Nelson, who said he was pleasantly surprised by the community open house, picks up a free book and checks out other local resources.
  • By Dana Kampa
  • March 11, 2025
Second Town Green open house on Longboat Key unites community
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Andria Piekarz with Julianna Burns and Carlos Solorzano
  • March 24, 2025
Mote's fifth annual Farm to Fillet attracts largest crowd yet
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Mary Beth Schiavone opens the 2025 Couture for the Cure show.
  • March 24, 2025
Biannual Couture for the Cure boosts MS research funding
3
Sandra Duryea keeps her eye on the ball through shamrock sunglasses.
  • March 23, 2025
Longboat Key Tennis Center women bid farewell to season with festive frivolity
4
Maya and Ross Kellman
  • March 23, 2025
ODA welcomes supporters to campus for annual Banyan Ball
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Luci LeClaire and Jillian Marto
  • March 23, 2025
SPAF shows it can-can at annual gala with 'Moulin Rouge' theme

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