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Longboaters, your new crosswalks await you, courtesy of FDOT.
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  • Kristen Herhold
  • March 30, 2016
Longboat Key Crosswalks 2.0

Longboaters, your new crosswalks await you, courtesy of FDOT.

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  • Adam Hughes
  • March 30, 2016
Residential real estate transactions March 14-March 18

Residential real estate transactions March 14-March 18

  • East County
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  • March 30, 2016
Cops Corner: Longboat Key 3.31.16

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
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Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics' Kelsey Lee, 10, and Maddie Losee, 7, are both in the Talent Opportunity Program.
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  • Jen Blanco
  • March 30, 2016
Beaming with pride

A pair of Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics competitors are trying to prove they can be elite athletes.

  • East County
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Sheriff Brad Steube outlines where he'd like to open a new zone to deal with east county growth.
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  • Jessica Salmond
  • March 30, 2016
East County: Safe ... for now?

Sheriff Brad Steube wants his staff to expand with growing population.

  • East County
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Lakewood Ranch senior Elise Spiller was named the MVP of the Sarasota-Manatee Girls Basketball All-Star Game March 26.
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  • Jen Blanco
  • March 30, 2016
East County High 5 Moments: 03.31.16

East County High 5 Moments: 03.31.16

  • East County
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Cameron Blanco, 15 months, thoroughly enjoyed his first gymnastics class.
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  • Jen Blanco
  • March 30, 2016
Hit or Miss: Jen Blanco

At 15 months, my son, Cameron, already has learned the art of the balance beam.

  • East County
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Johnathan Reid will help lead Lakewood Ranch into the Varsity County Championships April 5.
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  • Jen Blanco
  • March 30, 2016
That's the ticket ...

Check out these top East County sporting events

  • East County
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  • Jessica Salmond
  • March 30, 2016
Cops Corner 3.31.2016

Crime reports from around the area.

  • East County
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    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • March 29, 2016
Life is gold for Sands Point

Sands Point celebrated its 50th anniversary March 29.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
JPan Restaurant owner and chef Daniel Dokko. Photo courtesy of JPan Restaurant.
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • March 29, 2016
JPan Restaurant readies new location at UTC

The Sarasota sushi restaurant and franchise BurgerFi will both join the food options on North Cattlemen Road.

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • March 29, 2016
Film review: 'Hello, My Name is Doris"

A seriously cute comedy

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SMR's marketing director, Laura Cole, cuts a ribbon to the new information center with the help of Lakewood Ranch ambassadors.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • March 29, 2016
Lakewood Ranch opens new info center

The center will target growth north of State Road 70.

  • East County
  • News
All Faiths Food Bank CEO Sandra Frank with Keith Monda, Feeding America board member and Gulf Coast Community Foundation Senior Vice President for Philanthropy Veronica Brady show off their orange wrist bands for the Campaign Against Summer Hunger.
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  • Amanda Morales
  • March 29, 2016
All Faiths evolves with Campaign Against Summer Hunger

Campaign Against Summer Hunger aims to feed 10% more or 30,000 children this year.

  • Sarasota
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  • Alex Mahadevan
  • March 29, 2016
Lakewood Ranch teen charged in tanker crash

A truck overturned in the southbound lanes of I-75 and caught fire this morning.

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