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Join Alex Mahadevan and Mallory Gnaegy as they report today's headlines.
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  • September 27, 2012
Sept. 27: Daily Headlines Video

Join us as we observe and report today's stories from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota and Siesta Key.

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Medora Fry, Barbara Sananderes and Lori Dickert
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  • Rachel S. OHara
  • September 27, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: BKYC Style Show

Bird Key Yacht Club held their monthly Style Show Thursday, Sept. 27 with 100 people in attendance. Styles modeled by the ten models were from Chico's and Soma.

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  • Jen Blanco
  • September 27, 2012
River Wilderness to host Sugar Shootout

River Wilderness Golf and Country Club in Parrish will host its first Sugar Shootout Golf Tournament Oct. 12 to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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  • Jen Blanco
  • September 27, 2012
Coastline Volleyball launches fall youth league

Coastline Volleyball recently started a fall youth volleyball league for girls ages 12-14.

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  • Eddie Kirsch
  • September 27, 2012
Siesta Key burglary suspect arrested again

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office arrested again one of two men suspected of burglarizing vehicles at Siesta Key Beach this week.

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The special taxing entity's annual revenues fell 38% from 2007 to $5.7 million in 2011, and it spent 11% more in 2011 compared with four years earlier.
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  • Alex Mahadevan
  • September 27, 2012
WCIND funding faces tighter budget

It's no longer smooth sailing for the four-county taxing district's funding for Sarasota County waterway projects.

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  • Alex Mahadevan
  • September 27, 2012
Ocean Club meets code

A Siesta Key business veteran plans to roll the dice on a business some critics label as 'legalized gambling.'

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Sarasota County in 2007 had dune vegetation placed on south Siesta Key to secure sand dredged from the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • Alex Mahadevan
  • September 27, 2012
South Siesta nourishment slated for 2014

The contractor that Sarasota County selects will oversee a majority of the overall project, which is expected to cost $11 million.

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  • Alex Mahadevan
  • September 27, 2012
Scrapper busted for crane thefts

A Bradenton resident was arrested in connection to statue thefts that began this month on Siesta Key.

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  • Alex Mahadevan
  • September 27, 2012
County bucks CLUCK request

Unwilling to add another burden to Sarasota County code enforcement, county commissioners declined to revise an ordinance against chicken keeping.

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The intersection at 10th Street and U.S. 41 is one of the first that will see a roundabout as part of a $100 million project to add the features along the bayfront.ÂÂ
    By
  • Roger Drouin
  • September 27, 2012
Connectivity plan continues with more roundabouts

Two U.S. 41 roundabouts are close to getting a green light, and another eight are in the works to 'round out' Sarasota's bayfront connectivity plan.

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A pump-out boat will remove sewage from boats moored in the new mooring field. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
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  • Roger Drouin
  • September 27, 2012
Mooring field makeover complete

After delays, a 99-acre mooring field becomes the 11th managed mooring field in the state.

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  • September 27, 2012
News Briefs

Counties discuss BP settlement money

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Alyssa Currier places a paper birthday crown on Henrietta Daytz’s head.
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  • Loren Mayo
  • September 27, 2012
FOREVER YOUNG: Henrietta Daytz

Sarasota resident Henrietta Daytz will celebrate her 100th birthday with her family and friends at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Marina Jack.

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Some downtown merchants hope the city will build park space atop the new State Street Garage. Greenspaces similar to the one above, in Singapore, are being built on urban buildings all over the world. Courtesy photo.
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  • Roger Drouin
  • September 27, 2012
Merchants see green for State Street garage

Merchants propose a public garden setting with a pavilion-type roof made of solar panels.

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