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Co-founder of Woman’s Exchange Elizabeth Lindsay and Executive Director Karen Koblenz
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • June 8, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Woman's Exchange awards grants and scholarships

Amidst the shelves of coffee mugs, racks of purses and side table consignments on June 7 was the usual bustle of the nonprofit The Woman's Exchange, but it was even more packed with people. The annual awards ceremony celebrated a year of hard work raising funds via consignment that help support local art students, groups and organizations like it has been doing since 1962. It celebrated giving $330,000 in grants and scholarships with a party at its own facility catered by Cafe L'Eurpoe with entertainment from local artists.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jessi Smith
  • June 7, 2012
Out of the house and into the art gallery: tips for parents on engaging kids at the museum

Out of the house and into the art gallery: tips for parents on engaging kids at the museum

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    By
  • Eddie Kirsch
  • June 7, 2012
Observe this: City won't change event policies

Observe this: City won't change event policies

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  • Jack Littman-Quinn
  • June 7, 2012
Piatti Italian Bistro and Bar "pops" the bistro concept

Piatti Italian Bistro and Bar "pops" the bistro concept

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  • By Stephen Warne
  • June 7, 2012
Zombies: Designer Drugs and Morbid Curiosity

Zombies: Designer Drugs and Morbid Curiosity

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Sarasota Police Benevolent Association President Mick McHale told the Sarasota Observer that 90% of the eligible members participated in the vote on a pension contract by the city of Sarasota. File photo.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • June 7, 2012
Police department rejects contract

The Sarasota Police Department's union rejected a contract that includes pension ordinance modifications it considers radical.

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Join Emily Walsh as she reports today's headlines.
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  • Eddie Kirsch
  • June 7, 2012
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Join us as we observe and report today's stories from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota and Siesta Key.

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File photo.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • June 7, 2012
Orange Avenue and Hillview Drive road detours

The intersection of Orange Avenue and Hillview Drive will be temporarily closed Thursday, June 7 at 7 p.m. until Friday, June 8 at 6 a.m. for paving weather permitting. Motorists should follow the detour signs.

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Margaret Romanes, Charlotte Perret and Joey Frye
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  • Loren Mayo
  • June 7, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Opera Guild Summer Salon

The Sarasota Opera Guild held its Summer Salon Series featuring musicians Gil Katz and Nadine Trudel Thursday, at Sarasota Yacht Club.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
In March the Sarasota County School Board unveiled concepts for long-planned renovations for Sarasota High School's campus.
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • June 7, 2012
Public hears SHS renovation options

Stakeholders in the Sarasota High School renovation project yesterday saw initial renderings and shared opinions at the first of two design charrettes.

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    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • June 7, 2012
FIVE THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT: Mark Lubas

Mark Lubas is a classically trained opera singer who helps others find their own voice. Read more about him in our candid "five things."

  • Siesta Key
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Longboat Key Vice Mayor David Brenner, Mayor Jim Brown and Commissioner Jack Duncan discuss the preliminary budget during a June 6 workshop.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 7, 2012
Commission talks dollars and sense at workshop

The Longboat Key Town Commission discussed the preliminary 2012-13 budget at a Wednesday, June 6 workshop.

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Jennifer Moore
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 7, 2012
Cinderella on the loose on Siesta Key

Jennifer Moore happened to be walking through Siesta Key Village with a friend when they came across a lone white pump last week on Siesta Key.

  • Siesta Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 7, 2012
Pine View grad secure rank

Alexander H. Hays, a 2004 graduate of Pine View School and 2008 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.Â

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  • Observer Staff
  • June 7, 2012
Students collect box tops for money

First-grade students at Phillippi Shores Elementary won the grand prize in the Box Top Traveling Trophy contest for collecting 2,445 box tops during the course of the school year.

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