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  • Observer Staff
  • August 22, 2012
BUSINESS OBSERVER

Something fishy going on at Mote; Foxy Lady to open second location on St. Armands

  • Longboat Key
  • News
This home at 604 Lyons Lane in Sleepy Lagoon Park has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,671 square feet of living area. It sold for $800,000. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • August 22, 2012
Two-bedroom L'Ambiance condo sells for $1,735,000

A condominium in L'Ambiance at Longboat Key Club tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Charles and Betty Ewing, of McLean, Va., sold their Unit J-404 at 435 L'Ambiance Drive to Donald Zimmerman and Claudia Zimmerman, trustees, of Atlanta, for $1,735,000.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Brian Gunnell
  • August 22, 2012
Bridge Bites: The Anti-Bath Coup

West leads the King, and Declarer craftily ducks. Now, if West continues, he gives Declarer a second trick in the suit.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 22, 2012
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
Sergio Albuquerque took this sunset photo from Cedar's West on the north end of the Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 22, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Sergio Albuquerque took this sunset photo from Cedar's West on the north end of the Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Beth Barnett takes a nature walk with the children of Fiwagoh Orphanage in Narkuru, Kenya. Photo by Ashlie Fulmer.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • August 22, 2012
East County residents travel on mission trip

Four East County residents traveled to Africa, July 28 through Aug. 10, to visit orphans.

  • East County
  • News
Briggs
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 22, 2012
BUSINESS OBSERVER

Carter Psychology opens Ranch location; Community Haven gets chairman, accreditation; MGA Insurance adds new manager; Grapevine continues growth

  • East County
  • News
A home in Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch, which has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,862 square feet of living area, sold for $655,000. Photo by Jen Blanco.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • August 22, 2012
Home in Country Club Village sells for $655,000

A home in Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Richard and Elaine Gilligan, trustees, of Lakewood Ranch, sold the home at 7942 Royal Birkdale Circle to Soren and Birthe Svenningsen, of Watchung, N.J., for $655,000.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
Frank Verdel took this photo of a rainbow over the vineyards at the entrance to The Lake Club.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 22, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Frank Verdel took this photo of a rainbow over the vineyards at the entrance to The Lake Club.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
"I practiced (when I first started playing) as I do now — every day," Dick Hyman says of his 60-plus year career.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • August 22, 2012
Dick Hyman: Mr. Piano Man

The keys of a piano may be black and white, but jazz pianist Dick Hyman's career is extremely colorful. Hyman arranges, composes and conducts pieces in many genres and continues his eclectic career playing shows around the country.

  • Arts + Culture
Rebecca Hopkins, Jocelyn Stevens, Andrew Stevens and Beth Duda. Photo by FST.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • August 22, 2012
Scene & Heard

Eighth-grader donates bar mitzvah money; Here's a Little more news; Calling all singers, actors and dancers; Hitting the pavement

  • Arts + Culture
"I actually got the bicycle at Home Goods. I didn't buy it when I first saw it, but when I woke up the next morning, I thought, 'If that's still there, it’s mine!'"
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • August 22, 2012
Home & Garden: Vintage Charm

Veiled by majestic trees on quiet Wisconsin Lane is Ronelle Ashby's 1920s abode.

  • Arts + Culture
For the past 100 years, campaign buttons have been used to endorse candidates. Humor and smear attacks are used for modern-day election buttons.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • August 22, 2012
Highlights: 'Vote for Me! Vote for Me!'

It's that time of year again when our televisions become flooded with commercials, our phones with ring with endorsement calls, our yards are staked with red or blue signs and our dinner tables are filled with political conversation.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Paula Atwell
  • August 22, 2012
Theater Review: 'Legally Blonde: The Musical'

The Manatee Players boasts a seriously enthusiastic homegrown audience that smiled, cheered and laughed continuously throughout its highly energetic opening-night production of "Legally Blonde."

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Lisa Nisenson
  • August 21, 2012
Eye candy with a purpose: infographics and charting solutions

Eye candy with a purpose: infographics and charting solutions

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
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