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The renovations to Cedars Tennis Resort's pool are scheduled to be completed Oct. 1.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • September 30, 2015
Cedars Tennis Resort awaits its updates

Since May, Cedars Tennis Resort has been renovated. The changes will be completed Oct. 1.

  • Longboat Key
  • Business
John Kisgen
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • September 30, 2015
Publix welcomes new manager

John Kisgen is the new manager at Longboat Key's Publix.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
“The response from a young crowd really feeds your performance. They're a lot more vocal when they like or hate something," says Tom Harney, left, as he and his fellow acting students rehearse for the upcoming New Stages Tour.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 30, 2015
Shaking up Shakespeare

Asolo Repertory Theatre's New Stages Tour puts a modern spin on Shakespearean classics

  • Arts + Culture
Carolyn Johnson and Isabel Norton have been friends and friends of Ringling College for more than 40 years. They're most recent challenge: raising $16 million for a new college library.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 30, 2015
Bound by Friendship

Art advocates Isabel Norton and Carolyn Johnson are using their love of education to make Ringling College’s new library a reality.

  • Arts + Culture
Lynn Schramek with her Parkinson's Cafe Cultural Art Series at the Sarasota Ballet. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • September 30, 2015
Residents' Parkinson's group focuses on the positive

Lynn Schramek started the support group in New York and is extending it to local residents and their partners.

  • East County
  • News
Unicorp National Development is asking a U.S Bankruptcy District Court of Appeals judge to overturn the sale of the bankrupt estate that also has control of a $23 million judgment against unit owners.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 30, 2015
More Colony appeals filed

Unicorp National Development Inc. filed appeals in state and federal bankruptcy court last week challenging the validity of the Colony Association’s estate acquisitions and if it’s a legal board.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Eric and Cindy Hammersand sold the Dry Dock Waterfront Grill Wednesday for an undisclosed price.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 30, 2015
Hammersands sell Dry Dock

Sarasota-based Gecko’s Hospitality Group purchased the Dry Dock Waterfront Grill last week for an undisclosed price.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
This 19,000 outparcel along Honore Avenue will house five tenants, including three signed restaurants.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • September 30, 2015
Benderson Development adds to University Parkway shopping plazas

With vacancy rates at about 1%, Benderson Development is building to accommodate market demands

  • East County
  • News
River Club resident Ron Hamilton loves visiting Barcelona, Spain, where his sister-in-law lives.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • September 30, 2015
Conversation with Ron Hamilton

River Club's Ron Hamilton has lent his expertise to Lakewood Ranch Town Hall as it searches for a new executive director.

  • East County
  • News
The new owners plan to do some renovations to the Rosedale Golf and Country Club.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • September 30, 2015
Hospitality group to buy Rosedale

CH6 Rosedale expects to close on the Rosedale Golf & Country Club Oct. 1.

  • East County
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Emily Ralston has been passionate about agriculture and animals for three years. She played sports at Braden River High, but was looking for her niche when she joined the Future Famers of America (FFA) group.
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • September 30, 2015
BRHS ag program makes strides

The largest agriculture program in the state, Braden River High School will have a new, $101,720 barn on campus later this year.

  • East County
  • News
If the amendment to the golf cart ordinance should pass at the Oct. 6 Manatee County Commission meeting, golf carts will be banned from driving on Tara Boulevard.
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • September 30, 2015
Are golf carts a hazard?

The Manatee County Commission will determine whether approved golf cart use makes the cut on Tara Boulevard and Whitfield Avenue.

  • East County
  • News
Kevin and Heather Harvey, along with their 8-year-old boxer Max on the left, opened the Woofdorf in August.
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • September 30, 2015
What’s all the woof about?

Lakewood Ranch is the stomping ground for a new luxury hotel — for canines.

  • East County
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    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • September 30, 2015
Cops Corner: East County 10.1.15

Crime reports from around the area.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Commissioners will only revisit a funding formula for the neighborhood utilities project if the GMD project referendum passes Nov. 3.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 30, 2015
Neighborhood undergrounding project won’t fizzle

Despite concerns from a few residents that splitting up the burial of island utilities into two referendum questions is doomed for failure, the Town Commission is moving forward with a GMD project referendum in November.

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  • News
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