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  • June 11, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Mar Vista, Moore's were on Key before most residents; Drivers, cyclists must share the roads; Town should prioritize people over turtles; Roundabouts would solve traffic woes; Limiting beach access points could improve traffic

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2014
Cops Corner

June 3 Will walk for food 6:36 p.m. - 4000 block of GMD. Suspicious Person. A man asked a convenience store clerk if she could donate a sandwich to him and said he was walking the state for world peace. Police found the man walking toward Sarasota. He had two outstanding warrants, but neither was extraditable. Police drove him to Sarasota, at his request.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
John Schneier and his friend, Pat Shaffer, assist with the cygnet round up. Both were in town with friends for Shaffer's bachelor celebration. (Courtesy photo)
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 11, 2014
Cygnets grow swimmingly in Bay Isles community

Longboat Key's swan family shows no signs of shrinking after the latest generation of swans gets medical treatment and a clean bill of health from a Lakeland veterinarian in late May.

  • Longboat Key
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Barbara Timm
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2014
OBITUARY: Barbara Timm

Barbara Timm, 86, died June 6.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2014
OBITUARY: Harry Pollak

Harry Pollak, 93, of Sarasota, died May 29.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Dr. James McGonigle
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2014
OBITUARY: James McGonigle

Dr. James McGonigle, 74, of Longboat Key, died June 2.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Robert Maddox
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2014
OBITUARY: Robert Maddox

Robert Maddox, 88, of Nashville, Tenn., and Longboat Key, died June 8.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Mazel with Temple Beth Israel member Ruth Lerner
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 11, 2014
Our Town: 'Mazel' tov to TBI-sponsored dog

Marine Corps veteran Michael Jernigan, who was blinded in a 2004 roadside attack in Iraq, spoke to Temple Beth Israel members in 2012 about his service dog, Brittani.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Hurricane Charley made landfall 50 miles to the south, near Port Charlotte.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 11, 2014
The center of the storm: a look back at the 2004 hurricane season

A decade ago, four storms threatened the Key in the span of 45 days. The island was spared - but Longboat might not always be so lucky.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • June 11, 2014
News Briefs

Town's fiscal transparency tool receives more praise; Program available for evacuation assistance; Mote's turtle walks aim to educate the community

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The Town Commission gave staff direction to craft an ordinance without references to cellular towers to prevent towers from popping up like the tower once proposed at Longboat Island Chapel. Courtesy rendering.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • June 11, 2014
Commission will review controversial telecommunications ordinance June 16

Town staff's latest draft of a controversial telecommunications ordinance doesn't include a category for cellular towers.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 11, 2014
Local candidate qualifying period opens

Candidates, including those running for community development districts, must turn in paperwork between June 16 to 20.

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 11, 2014
Our Town: Sharapova nets French Open victory

Longboat Key tennis star Maria Sharapova scored her second French Open victory.

  • Longboat Key
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Longboat Island Chapel
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 11, 2014
Our Town: Anonymous donation scores home run for chapel

Thanks to an anonymous $300,000 donation, Longboat Island Chapel will soon draw up plans for a new parsonage.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Courtesy Sarasota Crime Stoppers Surveillance footage of the May 18 break-in shows three females and one male.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 11, 2014
Police seek citizens' help in Jewfish case

Surveillance video captured four suspects who broke into a Jewfish Key home but did not take anything in May.

  • Longboat Key
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