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For several downtown merchants, business has picked up this tourist season. Photo by Yara Klimchak.
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  • Roger Drouin
  • May 30, 2013
Downtown merchants welcome changes

Merchants hope streetscape improvements, less panhandling and the strengthening economy bode well for the downtown's future.

  • Sarasota
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Florence Katz has volunteered at the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Sarasota-Manatee for the last 17 years. Photo by Nick Friedman
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • May 30, 2013
Florence Katz shows giving knows no age limit

Home Instead Senior Care honored the 97-year-old Sarasota Bay Club resident with the Florida Salute to Senior Service award.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 30, 2013
Our View: The city's days of reckoning

Page 1 headline: City budget - $6 million deficit.

  • Sarasota
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Molly Schechter
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 30, 2013
Big flag for a big guy

It's only a bit more than three quarters of a mile, but it may well have seemed longer to Nate Atkins, 10, one of the flag bearers for Boy Scout Troop 14 in the Sarasota Memorial Day parade.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Gwen MacKenzie
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 30, 2013
News Briefs

SMH's MacKenzie honored in top hospital leaders list; Commissioners approve phase two of Gulf Gate Library; Quay property settlement reached in foreclosure lawsuit

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Dr. Burwell "Bumpy" Jones swims in his home lap pool to train and clear his mind.
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  • Nick Friedman
  • May 30, 2013
Eighty-year-old sets a masterful pace

In June, the Pan-American Masters Championship will come to Sarasota for the first time. As the event approaches, former Olympian Dr. Bumpy Jones reflects on a career of firsts.

  • Sarasota
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Read this week's Cops Corner
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 30, 2013
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 30, 2013
Student Spotlight: Alyssa Sweeney

Alyssa Sweeney is learning how the adult world works at an early age. At 16, the Riverview High School junior represents the youth perspective when she sits on the Community Foundation of Sarasota County Board of Directors as a full voting member.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Elizabeth Crowell, Mar Echevarria, Xavier Keogh, Andrew Kotick, Alejandro Martino and Mariana Zapata
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 30, 2013
SCHOOL BOARD BULLETIN

Six New College students will travel to France to teach English to elementary school students

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Cardinal Mooney quarterback Reese Vita scrambles for yardage in the second half.
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • May 30, 2013
Cougars roll past Pirates

The Cardinal Mooney High football team showed promise in all three facets of the game during its 32-13 spring-game victory over Braden River May 23.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 30, 2013
SPRING FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Rams best Seminoles in their spring game; Booker shut out in spring action; Turnovers prove costly for Sailors

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Unit 504 in La Bellasara, which has three bedrooms, three baths, one half-bath and 3,290 square feet of living area, sold for $2.1 million. File photo.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • May 30, 2013
Condominium in La Bellasara sells for $2.1 million

A condominium in La Bellasara tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Pauline O'Keefe, of Johnson, Kan., sold her Unit 504 condominium at 464 Golden Gate Point to John and Valerie Barrett, of Sarasota, for $2.1 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Melanie Mason
  • May 30, 2013
Moments in time

According to an advertisement in the June 1, 1978, issue of the Pelican Press, Siesta Maintenance Painting offered full house painting for only $150.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
In 1961, Barbara Glidden was named Tarpon Queen at the Sarasota Tarpon Tournament.
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 30, 2013
YOUR NEIGHBOR: Barbara Glidden

Barbara Glidden basks in the sunlight of her Siesta Key home as she flips through old photographs of herself in New York, Mexico and the Caribbean.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Tom Caffrey submitted this photo taken on the fishing pier near the Ringling Bridge.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 30, 2013
Weather Photo: PERFECT PERCH

Tom Caffrey submitted this photo taken on the fishing pier near the Ringling Bridge.

  • Sarasota
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