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A seating area between Publix and CVS offers a shaded spot to enjoy the new shopping center.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 5, 2012
Dec. 13, Publix: Be there with bells on

The new 49,000-square-foot store will open at 8 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 13.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
This Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch home, which has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,588 square feet of iiving area, sold for $845,000. Josh Siegel.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • December 5, 2012
Country Club East home sells for $845,000

A home in Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Jason and Sheryl Okuhara sold their home at 7505 Royal Valley Court to Donald Cofield and Sharon Cofield, trustees, of Bloomington, Ind., for $845,000.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
Bob Girard took this photo of the sun setting over the first hole at the King's Dune golf course in the Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • December 5, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Bob Girard took this photo of the sun setting over the first hole at the King's Dune golf course in the Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 5, 2012
Style show gives look and taste of Longboat Key

They've made names for themselves in everything from town politics to tennis.

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Unit C-603 at L'Ambiance has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,634 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,675,000. File photo.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • December 5, 2012
Two-bedroom L'Ambiance condo sells for $1,675,000

A condominium in L'Ambiance at Longboat Key tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Heluan Properties LLC sold the Unit C-603 condominium at 415 L'Ambiance Drive to Linda Schneider, trustee, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, for $1,675,000.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 5, 2012
Real Estate Reports

Janet Bassett travels to Rome to discuss market conditions; October home sales in Sarasota up 24% from last year

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
George Rauch, Longboat Key, is chief executive officer of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.
  • By George Rauch
  • December 5, 2012
Market Watch: Curb your appetite for high returns

Returns from the stock-and-bond markets aren't what they used to be. Today, we are mired in an economy going nowhere, which provides limited investment opportunities because of the twin government sins of excess spending and overhanging future tax increases.

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Betty Lupacchino-Goree submitted this sunset photo, taken on Longboat Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • December 5, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Betty Lupacchino-Goree submitted this sunset photo, taken on Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • December 5, 2012
Sports Scores: Soccer

SMA girls soccer posts shutout; Cardinal Mooney beats Bishop Verot; ODA blanks Bradenton Christian and Southeast; ODA tops Canterbury School

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
November's home of the month is a 1920s home owned by Ron and Patsy Merriman
    By
  • Robert Plunket
  • December 5, 2012
HOME OF THE MONTH: Golden Oldie

Ron and Patsy Merriman found a slice of Old-Florida living - and a new adventure - in their 1920s-built home on Vamo Drive.

  • Arts + Culture
Sarasota artists John and Linda Whitney at the Sarasota Craft Show
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • December 5, 2012
Scene & Heard

Putting on a show; End of the world; Jazzed up 'The Nutcracker'

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Paula Atwell
  • December 5, 2012
Theater Review: 'MID-LIFE! The Crisis Musical'

The Venice Theatre's Cabaret audience found the over-the-hill antics presented in the musical revue, "MID-LIFE! The Crisis Musical" amusing and entertaining.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • December 5, 2012
Music Review: Sarasota Orchestra Masterworks II concert with Conductor Thomas Wilkins

In my many years of interviewing famous classical musicians, I've never met an instrumentalist who didn't want to be a singer.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • December 5, 2012
Film Review: 'Killing Them Softy'

Finally, Brad Pitt goes noir and nails the defining role of his career.

  • Arts + Culture
"As long as I'm working in the arts, I don't care what I'm doing," says Kaylene Torregrossa. "I could be sweeping the floors, as long as it’s part of the bigger picture — and I've had to sweep the floors!"
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • December 5, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: A New Role

Kaylene Torregrossa started as an intern at Florida Studio Theatre in 2010. Two years later, she's playing the lead role as FST's general manager.

  • Arts + Culture
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