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  • Nick Friedman
  • September 6, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Young Professionals Group After Hours

PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Young Professionals Group After Hours

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    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • September 6, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Music and art fans get subterranean at Ringling Underground

PHOTO GALLERY: Music and art fans get subterranean at Ringling Underground

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Hazzan Jeffrey Weber and Flora Oynick dance and laugh during the celebration.
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • September 6, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY : Temple Beth Sholom Tashlich Service

Community members participated in Rosh Hashanah traditions Friday, Sept. 6, at Turtle Beach for the Temple Beth Sholom Tashlich service. Visiting Rabbi from Connecticut Andrew Hechtman led the group in dances and songs. Community members threw bread into the water to release their sins and start fresh in the New Year. They also blew the shofar, or rams horn, to signify a happy time. In ancient times people blew the shofar to communicate danger or celebration.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Sarasota County Commissioners Joe Barbetta and Christine Robinson differed in opinion Friday on whether to tap county reserve funds for future projects.
    By
  • Nolan Peterson
  • September 6, 2013
County Commissioners spar over 2014 budget

Differences of opinion on reserve fund spending took center stage at the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners financial planning workshop Friday.

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Woolf is a potential candidate on this year’s American Idol
    By
  • Harriet Sokmensuer
  • September 6, 2013
American Idol Filming Main Street

American Idol films local Sam Woolf on Main Street

  • East County
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Kitty Brooks surprises her granddaughter, Jade Voorhees, with a cookie for dessert
    By
  • Harriet Sokmensuer
  • September 6, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Grandparents Day at Braden River

Braden River Elementary students have lunch with their grandparents.

  • East County
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Event speaker Dr. Carol Probstfeld with Carol Sawyer
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • September 6, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: GOP Republican Women's Club of Sarasota Luncheon

The GOP Republican Women's Club of Sarasota held its first luncheon of the season Friday, Sept. 6, at Michael's On East.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May is giving Colony Beach & Tennis Resort parties three more weeks to present a settlement that affected parties will sign.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 6, 2013
Sept. 6: Daily Headlines

Today's Stories: Colony settlement extension granted; Commissioners reject Waterline Road development; Sarasota Memorial Hospital previews new Courtyard Tower; County commissioners break ground at Gulf Gate Library site

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The library is expected to open in the spring of 2014.
    By
  • Eddie Kirsch
  • September 6, 2013
VIDEO: County commissioners break ground at Gulf Gate Library site

Sarasota County commissioners shoveled some dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Gulf Gate Library at 9 a.m. Sept. 6., at 7112 Curtiss Avenue.

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Save Our Seabirds is located on a city-owned parcel at 1708 Ken Thompson Parkway. (File photo)
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 6, 2013
City finds no evidence of Save Our Seabirds claims

City staff reported that they found no issues over the past two months at the bird-rescue facility.

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Community members are encouraged to visit the new SMH courtyard tomorrow and have their photograph taken for free in the inflatable snow globe.
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • September 6, 2013
Sarasota Memorial Hospital previews new Courtyard Tower

News media visited Sarasota Memorial Hospital's new Courtyard Tower for a preview before tomorrow's grand opening.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Commissioners narrowly approved a millage increase and a budget for next year at a public hearing Thursday — one that saw no input from the public on the city's fiscal blueprint for 2014.
    By
  • David Conway
  • September 6, 2013
City approves millage rate increase, budget

An 8.5% millage rate increase was approved by the City Commission Thursday at the first of two public hearings before the FY2014 budget and millage rate is adopted.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Richard I. Martin and his wife, Mary Jane Martin Smith, who sought to develop land she owns, and their counsel, waited out a six-plus hour hearing.
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • September 6, 2013
Commissioners reject Waterline Road development

After pleas from neighbors urged commissioners to preserve their rural lifestyle, commissioners voted Sept. 5 to deny plans to build 175 residential units on 77 acres of wooded property on the north side of Waterline Road.'¨

  • East County
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The cast of "Steel Magnolias," which opens Sept. 19 at The Players Theatre
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • September 6, 2013
Weekend's Best Bet: Get a hair cut at The Players Theatre

Get a haircut Saturday, and give to a good cause at The Players Theatre's Locks of Love charity event tied to the opening of 'Steel Magnolias.'

  • Arts + Culture
A Walmart Supercenter nearly overtook the shell of the former Publix in the Ringling Shopping Center.
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • September 6, 2013
Walmart decision spawns second suit

Owners of the Ringling Shopping Center have filed another lawsuit against the city of Sarasota.

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  • News
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