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Home of the Month: Great beginnings
    By
  • Robert Plunket
  • November 24, 2014
Home of the Month: Great beginnings

An early Guy Peterson house on Longboat Key is as stylish now as when it was built.

  • Arts + Culture
Erin Fletcher, Leymis Bolaños Wilmott, Melissa Coleman and JoAnna Ursal dance by the movement of the now.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • November 24, 2014
Sign of the times

Fuzión Dance Artists stay centered in the present.

  • Arts + Culture
Child Protection Center Executive Director Doug Staley helps unload boxes of food donated by the Gulf Gate Rotary Club.
    By
  • Amanda Morales
  • November 24, 2014
Gulf Gate Rotary donates turkeys to Child Protection Center

The Rotary Club of Gulf Gate donated 75 turkey baskets to the Child Protection Center Tuesday afternoon.

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AJC honorees Phil Mancini and Michael Klauber. Photo by Cliff Roles.
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • November 24, 2014
Black Tie & Tales

Everyone loves Michael and Phil; Tidbits, Over the river and through the woods ...; and Black Tie Affair.

  • Arts + Culture
Cedars Tennis Resort’s clubhouse remained closed Tuesday afternoon.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • November 24, 2014
Lightning strike causes Cedars fire

A fire occurred this morning in an air-conditioning unit of the Longboat Key resort.

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  • Observer Staff
  • November 24, 2014
Cops Corner: East County

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

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  • November 24, 2014
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 24, 2014
Obituary: Alan Turow

Alan Turow, 79, of Sarasota, died Nov. 13.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 24, 2014
Obituary: John Joseph Stevenson

John Joseph Stevenson, 78, died Nov. 18.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • November 24, 2014
Obituary: John Helm Lockwood

John Helm Lockwood, 99, of Longboat Key and formerly of Short Hills, N.J., died Nov. 15.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • November 24, 2014
Obituary: Ronald Curry

Ronald Curry, 81, of Longboat Key, died Nov. 14.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 24, 2014
Obituary: Barbara Mae Capron

Barbara Mae Capron, 76, of Longboat Key, died Oct. 26.

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  • Observer Staff
  • November 24, 2014
It's Read Everywhere

Headed on a great trip? Make sure to take your Observer along! Snap a photo of you holding your Observer on vacation, then submit it and you could win travel tickets, courtesy of Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

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The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office charged 28-year-old Michael Levanti with two second-degree felonies for installing malware that affected the district's email system.
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • November 24, 2014
School employee charged in cyber attack

Deputies arrested 28-year-old Michael Levanti today for allegedly installing malware that wreaked havoc on the Sarasota County School District's computer network last month.

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Robin Zoller submitted this photo of storm clouds rolling in over the Seafood Shack near Cortez.
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  • Observer Staff
  • November 24, 2014
Weather: Longboat Key

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