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  • 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
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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
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  • 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.

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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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  • By Popcorn Bob
  • May 29, 2013
Popcorn Bob's Movie Magic

Enjoy this week's Movie Magic reviews.

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  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 29, 2013
New College graduates largest class in its history

New College of Florida graduated 197 students Friday, May 24 the largest in the history of the school.

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Nicole Batistas
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 29, 2013
Girl Scouts give dogs a bone

Girls in Girl Scout Troop 764 made more than 500 homemade dog bones and 300 hand-sewn catnip toys for Lakewood Ranch-based Honor Animal Rescue last month.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 29, 2013
Palm-Aire women welcome officers

Ladies in the Palm-Aire Women's Club held their last meeting of the season May 10, and made sure to install the club's new officers before they left.

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Brett Gastman. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 29, 2013
Key gets thumbs up from travel writer

Brett Gastman, 10, vacations on Longboat Key with his family. His grandparents, Ted and Sara Gastman, have owned a Beachplace unit for more than 20 years.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 29, 2013
College honors Nellie Wilson

Mary Baldwin College honored Longboat Key resident Nellie Wilson with the Admissions Volunteer Excellence Award.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 29, 2013
Kiwanis remembers veterans of wars oft forgotten

Frank Buckles, the last surviving American World War I veteran, died more than two years ago at 110.

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The panel: Kevin DiLallo, CEO of Manatee Memorial Hospital; Sharon Hillstrom, president and CEO of the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corporation; and Ed Hunzeker, Manatee County administrator
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • May 29, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance Hot Topics Luncheon

Manatee County leaders took questions about two referendums coming up for public vote June 18 at the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance Hot Topics Panel Luncheon. Ed Hunzeker, Manatee County administrator; Kevin DiLallo, CEO of Manatee Memorial Hospital; and Sharon Hillstrom, president and CEO of the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corporation, informed the audience at the Fete Ballroom at Polo Grill, May 29, about how the half-cent sales tax referendum and Economic Development Ad valorem Tax Exemption (EDATE) referendum will affect them.

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Town staff will continue to meet with Hilton officials and project engineers throughout the summer to help speed up the project.
    By
  • Eddie Kirsch
  • May 29, 2013
May 29: Daily Headlines Video

Today's Stories: Hilton eyes October as project start date; Family Trade: Kibler Ranch; Manatee Schools' parents petition teacher cuts; New P.F. Chang's construction wrapping up

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Guest Speaker Rabbi Noam Marans is AJC’s Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations and oversees national interfaith outreach, dialogue and advocacy, and interethnic efforts of Belfer Center for American Pluralism.
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 29, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY : AJC's 2013 Summer Lunch and Learn

The American Jewish Committee hosted their first AJC Summer Lunch and Learn of the season Wednesday, May 29 at Michael's On East to educate the public on Jewish Catholic relations. Guest speaker Rabbi Noam Marans flew in from New York to discuss the topic 'A New Pope and the Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations,' at the fifth summer series. More than 150 people attended the luncheon and participated in a question and answer session after the talk.

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