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Track 1 Benefits Managing Partner Ron Krupa, right, was one of four panelists to discuss impacts of health-care reform legislation. Photo by Pam Eubanks.
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  • Observer Staff
  • August 29, 2012
News Briefs

Linger Lodge cell tower burglarized; Local business professionals weigh in on Obamacare

  • East County
  • News
  • By Bob Salyers
  • August 29, 2012
My View: Capture the essence of your subject

Through past articles that I have written for the East County Observer, perhaps some of you know I am a photographer and enjoy wildlife photography first and foremost.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • August 29, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon by Jorge Blanco.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Read this week's Cops Corner.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 29, 2012
Cops Corner: East County

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • August 29, 2012
Athlete of the Week: Mariah Robertson

Lakewood Ranch High senior outside hitter Mariah Robertson recorded 23 kills, five aces and 14 assists to help power the Lady Mustangs to victories over Southeast and St. Petersburg Lakewood in the Lakewood Ranch Preseason Tournament Aug. 21 and 22. Here is an inside look at this week's Athlete of the Week.

  • East County
  • Sports
Craig Wolfe is looking to bring some excitement and a competitive spirit to the court this season as The Out-of-Door Academy's volleyball coach.
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  • Jen Blanco
  • August 29, 2012
Competitive spirit: Craig Wolfe named The Out-of-Door Academy volleyball coach

Craig Wolfe, a former collegiate and current USA Volleyball adult travel team player, was named The Out-of-Door Academy's new volleyball coach.

  • East County
  • Sports
Jason Golden, who coaches the ODA middle school football team and the Venice girls tennis team, assumed his newest role — Area Director for Coaches of Excellence. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • August 29, 2012
Organization hopes to empower coaches

River Club resident Jason Golden was named area director for Coaches of Excellence Aug. 1, after working for the Gulf Coast Fellowship of Christian Athletes for the past six-and-a-half years.

  • East County
  • Sports
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • August 29, 2012
When friends become rivals

Braden River High and Lakewood Ranch High - two schools separated by less than four miles.

  • East County
  • Sports
This Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch home, which has three bedrooms, four baths, two half-baths, a pool and 3,987 square feet of living area, sold for $799,000. Photo by Jen Blanco.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • August 29, 2012
Country Club East home sells for $799,000

A home in Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Minto Communities LLC sold the home at 14810 Secret Harbor Place to Danielle Kozel, trustee, for $799,000.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
Sackett
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 29, 2012
BUSINESS OBSERVER

John Sackett named salesperson of the month; Lee Wetherington Homes added to Haddington; First Federal Bank confirms new director; RE/MAX's Lou Sansevero awarded CDPE designation

  • East County
  • News
Deb Hossenlopp took this photo at Adventure Park in Lakewood Ranch.
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  • Observer Staff
  • August 29, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Deb Hossenlopp took this photo at Adventure Park in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 29, 2012
Letters to the Editor

Consider the effects of extension denial; Another Colony extension means further inaction; Our compliments to Waste Management

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
This home at 637 Norton St. has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,654 square feet of living area. It sold for $995,000. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 29, 2012
En Provence unit sells for $2 million

A condominium in En Provence tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Mark Cassis, trustee, sold the Unit 3 condominium at 2151 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Dawn Beswick and Katherine English, trustees, of Ontario, Canada, for $2 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Charles Neubauer took this photo of storm clouds rolling in over Buttonwood Harbor.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 29, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Charles Neubauer took this photo of storm clouds rolling in over Buttonwood Harbor.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Brian Gunnell
  • August 29, 2012
Bridge Bites: The Merrimac Coup

Historians of the Spanish-American War will have no difficulty figuring out how this week's coup got its exotic name. For the rest of us, there is Google.

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