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  • By Eduardo Anaya
  • May 30, 2012
PREEN & CHIC: Grooming confessions

PREEN & CHIC: Grooming confessions

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  • By Anthony Paull
  • May 30, 2012
Playwright examines post-9/11 American life

Playwright examines post-9/11 American life

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Join Emily Walsh as she reports today's headlines.
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  • May 30, 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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  • By Jorge Blanco
  • May 30, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

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The base portion of a typical 1,000-kWh residential customer FPL bill is expected to increase by 23 cents a day, or $7.09 per month in 2013.
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  • May 30, 2012
FPL to hold rate increase hearing Thursday

Residential and business customers of FPL are invited to share their views of FPL's service quality and discuss a proposed rate increase at City Hall Thursday.

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Each Sarasota County agency has a particular sector in the current emergency operations center on Ringling Boulevard.
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  • May 30, 2012
Grant extended for EOC funding

The $1 million grant to Sarasota County for the new emergency operations center has been extended.

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Sarasota County met nationally recognized guidelines that assess how well a budget serves as a policy, financial and operations document, as well as a source for public information.
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  • May 30, 2012
Sarasota County receives distinguished budget award

The county has received a budget award for its accounting practices for 22 consecutive years.

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Hannah Bergan Kates graduated May 5 from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's of science in environmental engineering.
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • May 30, 2012
Class of 2012

These Longboat Key, Lido and Bird Key high school seniors have aced countless exams, read stacks of literary classics, won football games and tennis matches, danced at prom, learned to drive, learned foreign languages, mastered the FCAT and took their high schools by storm.

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  • May 30, 2012
Vets knighted for service

Recently at a ceremony held in Pinellas Park, six World War II veterans received France's highest honor for their service liberating France.

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  • May 30, 2012
Couple celebrates engagement

On June 8, 2011, BJ Webb was at a bookstore looking for a book a grief counselor told her to read.

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Courtesy photo.
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  • May 30, 2012
Centennial plus two

For Jack Goldsmith's 102nd birthday, he appeared on Willard Scott's segment on the "Today" show.

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Longtime News Editor Pam Eubanks will succeed Eng as managing editor of the East County Observer.
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  • May 30, 2012
The Observer promotes staffers

Rex Jensen may be called "Mr. East County," and Don O'Leary may be known as East County's titular mayor, but if there is anyone to rival them in their knowledge of and roots in East County, it would be East County Observer Managing Editor Michael "Mike" Eng.

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The town spends an amount equivalent to 60% of firefighter payroll on its required contributions to the firefighter pension.
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  • Robin Hartill
  • May 30, 2012
Proposal defines pension meeting

Discussion shifted to a plan transitioning firefighters to 401(a) accounts throughout the May 23 Firefighter Pension Board meeting.

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Police Chief Albert Hogle's casket is lifted out of the hearse Thursday at the Sarasota National Cemetery. Photos by Rachel S. O'Hara.
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  • May 30, 2012
End of watch

Longboat Key Police Chief Albert 'Al' Hogle was remembered at a public funeral as a private man, public servant and mentor to other law-enforcement officers.

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  • May 30, 2012
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St. Armands access point temporarily closes; Longboat Key makes groin modifications; Town Commission approves alcohol sales

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