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  • Katie Johns
  • February 6, 2019
Longboat Key Club games for a cure

The annual game day on Feb. 6 benefited Breast Health Sarasota, Inc.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Ben Hur de Bernaville, shown with Olissio Zoppe, will be featured at Cirque Ma'Ceo, which has been extended through March 3.
    By
  • Jay Heater
  • February 6, 2019
Rare draft horse on display at Cirque Ma’Ceo in Sarasota

Boulonnais draft horse makes debut at Big Cat Habitat & Gulf Coast Sanctuary as Cirque Ma'Ceo extended through March 3.

  • East County
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A home in Sleepy Lagoon at 6568 Gulfside Road recently sold for $775,000. Built in 1968, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,620 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $485,000 in 2013.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 6, 2019
Sleepy Lagoon home sells for $775,000

Residential real estate transactions for Jan. 21-25.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
A home in Lake Club at 16432 Daysailor Trail recently sold for $1,327,500. Built in 2014, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,573 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,500,900 in 2015.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 6, 2019
Lake Club home tops local sales at $1,327,500

Lake Club home tops local sales at $1,327,500

  • East County
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    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • February 6, 2019
Cops Corner: Have we got a deal for you . . .

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

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  • Cops Corner
Senate President Bill Galvano
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  • Matt Walsh
  • February 6, 2019
Galvano has it right

Senate President Bill Galvano wants the state to build three major highway projects. Given the strong economy, for once the state should be in front of the state’s inevitable growth and not play catch-up.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • February 6, 2019
Coyote incident in Lakewood Ranch sends cautionary message

Walkers beware: They are out there.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • February 6, 2019
Asolo Rep's 'A Doll’s House, Part 2' imagines the fate of Ibsen’s feminist icon

Asolo Repertory Theatre's production by Lucas Hnath make audiences think and even laugh — in a post-modern sort of way.

  • Arts + Entertainment
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  • Samantha Chaney
  • February 6, 2019
School board broadens discussion regarding electronic device policies

School Board members expanded their review of cell phone use to address electronic devices in general.

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Sam DiGiammarino plays a teaching game with Booker fifth graders.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 6, 2019
Booker students flip for turtles

During the third, fourth and fifth-grade science classes at Booker Elementary School, students learned all about turtles courtesy of the Longboat Key Turtle Watch.

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  • Neighbors
The Mustangs hold a banner celebrating their seventh-straight district title.
    By
  • Ryan Kohn
  • February 6, 2019
Culture club: Mustangs soccer players have diverse backgrounds

The team has played as a unit ahead of its regional semifinal game Feb. 9.

  • East County
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From left to right: Haven chairwoman May Ahdab, Haven president and CEO Brad Jones, and Bernie Hardiek of the Hardiek Foundation pose for a picture at the groundbreaking for Mary Jane's House on Thursday, Jan. 31.
    By
  • Andrew Atkins
  • February 6, 2019
Haven breaks ground on new residence

Wheelchair accessible group home should be open within a year.

  • East County
  • News
Katie McKenney, right, teaches her Birdies class before hitting the putting green.
    By
  • Ryan Kohn
  • February 6, 2019
Merger brings renewed focus on youth golf

Prose and Kohn: Ryan Kohn.

  • East County
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Manatee County’s Interim Library Manager Glenda Lammers talks with Donovan, Michelle and David DuJardin about technologies available at libraries during a fundraiser Jan. 29. They look at products made by 3-D printers.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • February 6, 2019
Plot thickens for Lakewood Ranch library

Friends of the East Manatee Library at Lakewood Ranch hosts fundraiser.

  • East County
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Taylor Morrison's Southwest Florida Division President Cammie Longnecker said a focal point of The Heights will be a giant hill, inspired by the Celery Fields park in Sarasota.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • February 6, 2019
Field of possibilities for new development called The Heights

Taylor Morrison begins to build lifestyle community near Ward Lake.

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