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  • Robin Hartill
  • September 4, 2013
PIC's voice is changing to comply with a state bill

The Public Interest Committee could reorganize next month following changes to statewide campaign-finance laws and a ruling from the Florida Elections Commission.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • September 4, 2013
Cops Corner 9.05.13

Aug. 28 Sunset sidetrack 7:37 p.m. -- 5100 block of GMD. Missing Person. A man told police he had left his wife in the car while he went back to his room to make sure it was locked. When he returned, his wife was gone. A half hour later, an officer spotted her on the beach.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
In July, the Longboat Key Turtle Watch experienced its largest crowd for an excavation. More than 400 people were in attendance.
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • September 4, 2013
Turtle Watch will monitor audience size at openings

At the request of a state agency, Longboat Key Turtle Watch will limit the number of onlookers at nest openings.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • September 4, 2013
Our view: LBK's unavoidable tax hikes

As this was being composed, it preceded the Longboat Key Town Commission meetings Tuesday night.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 4, 2013
Letters to the Editor: Town employees have high-risk jobs

I disagree with your statement in the Aug. 22 opinion article 'DROP-dead Disappointment' in which you state that ' ... a general employee works in an air-conditioned office his entire career.'

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Nolan Peterson
  • September 4, 2013
My view: Sadly, Americans are apathetic again

Doesn't anyone care anymore about our soldiers still fighting against a savage and determined enemy?

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 4, 2013
Obituary: Marjorie G. Morris

Marjorie G. Morris, 91, of Lafayette, Ind., and Longboat Key, died Aug. 22.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 4, 2013
Obituary: Kevin C. Landry

Kevin C. Landry, 69, of Boston and Longboat Key, died Aug. 1. He was born April 18, 1944.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 4, 2013
Obituary: Margie A. Kallmeyer

Margie A. Kallmeyer, 85, of Longboat Key, died Aug. 28.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Robin Hartill
  • September 4, 2013
Obituary: Thomas Bramble

Thomas Edwin Bramble, 101, of Bradenton and formerly of Longboat Key, died Aug. 17.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • September 4, 2013
Business Observer

Register for the East Meets West Regional Business Expo; Boston Proper on the Circle will open next week; Reid T. Winder completes financial planner series; Community Harvest begins next month

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  • Neighbors
This home at 631 Mourning Dove Drive has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 3,755 square feet of living area. It sold for $2,023,400.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • September 4, 2013
Bird Key home sells for $2,023,400

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Aug. 19 and Aug. 23.

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Henry Adomonis submitted this sunrise photo, taken overlooking Sarasota Bay.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 4, 2013
Weather photo: Longboat Key

Do you love taking photos? We want your best photos of sunrises, sunsets, rainbows, etc.

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    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • September 4, 2013
School district to hire 85 teachers

The hiring of 85 additional teachers for this school year is one of many unexpected costs the Manatee County School District added to its budget.

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  • News
Competitors race toward the finish line in August as USRowing hosted its 2013 Masters National Championships at Nathan Benderson Park.
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • September 4, 2013
Benderson Park to host rowers

Rowing's governing body chose Nathan Benderson Park to host the 2017 World Rowing Championships, which would be the largest international event in East County's history.

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