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Your Observer | All

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  • May 6, 2015
News briefs

Town manager addresses boat mooring; C.C. Shores seeks turn lane

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Betty Blair
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  • Robin Hartill
  • May 6, 2015
Blair served as VOICE for community

Betty Blair, a longtime activist with the former Longboat Key Public Interest Committee, died April 29. She was 91.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
VE Day: 70 years ago

Friday marks the anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe — an indelible memory for its survivors.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
Grads: Contact us to be featured in our graduation special

Do you know a soon-to-be graduate who lives on Longboat, Lido, St. Armands or Bird keys?

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Stone crab season ends May 15.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
Last chance: stone crab season ends May 15

It’s that time of year: Turtles are nesting, snowbirds have vanished, and you have one more week to savor stone crabs.

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Courtesy photo Troop 764 co-leader Elly Barr and Girl Scout Megan Workman have fun at the event.
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
Scouting out fun

Two hundred Girl Scouts from Lakewood Ranch recently hosted the 2015 International Day Festival in the Lakewood Ranch High School cafeteria.

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The Longboat Key Club
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • May 6, 2015
Mark Walsh: No vote on Islandside could bring more traffic

Ocean Properties’ Mark Walsh says voters should check ‘yes’ on their May 12 referendum ballots if they don’t want more traffic on Gulf of Mexico Drive.

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John Lally and Susan Stahley. Photo by Jessica Salmond
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
What's Happening: Week of May 7 2015

Siesta Key Code Enforcement officer to retire; SMH gains Level II trauma status

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This home at 7605 Haddington Cove has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,955 square feet of living area. It sold for $957,500. Photo by Jessica Salmond
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • May 6, 2015
Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch home sells for $957,500

A home in Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
This home at 424 N. Washington Drive has six bedrooms, four and a half baths, a pool and 4,465 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.25 million. Photo by Kristen Herhold
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • May 6, 2015
John Ringling Estates home sells for $2.25 million

A home in John Ringling Estates tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.

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  • Real Estate
Cheryl Moore submitted this photo of an ibis, taken on Lido Key.
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
Longboat Key photo contest winner: May 7

Cheryl Moore submitted this photo of an ibis, taken on Lido Key.

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Anne McCunney submitted this photo of a sandhill crane family, taken in Bradenton.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
East County photo contest winner: May 7

Anne McCunney submitted this photo of a sandhill crane family, taken in Bradenton.

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Anne Schimberg serves as the secretary on Kehillah’s board. File photo
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • May 6, 2015
Kehillah of LWR affiliates with national network

The congregation joins the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

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Longboat Key residents Robert and Bonny Israeloff with Karen and Tom Bernstein went on safari in Tanzania and Kenya and visited Serengeti National Park in Tarangire, Tanzania.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
Attention, globe trotters: Five months left to submit photos for the ‘It’s Read Everywhere’ contest

Attention, globe trotters: You have five months left to submit photos for the ‘It’s Read Everywhere’ contest.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | Sound off: Referendum

We asked for your traffic solutions in our April 30 editorial, “Send in your vote,” and you responded. Keep the dialogue going by emailing your opinions to Managing Editor Robin Hartill at [email protected].

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