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Read this week's Cops Corner.
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  • Observer Staff
  • April 25, 2012
Cops Corner: East County

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • April 25, 2012
Cancer organization changes name, expands reach

The Center for Building Hope, formerly the Cancer Support Community, has partnered with Massachusetts General Hospital and its Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine.

  • East County
  • News
Braden River’s Ivo Lima, center, will play soccer at Jacksonville University. He also plans to major in business management. Photo by Jen Blanco.
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • April 25, 2012
Braden River, Lakewood seniors ink college choices

Braden River High's Ivo Lima signed a national letter-of-intent to play soccer for Jacksonville University April 19, while Lakewood Ranch High golfer Hunter Sagar signed with Canisius College.

  • East County
  • Sports
Emilio Delgado joined the ‘Sesame Street’ cast in 1971.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • April 25, 2012
'Sesame Street' actor gives us the dirt on Big Bird

Emilio Delgado has spent four decades playing Luis on 'Sesame Street.' The 71-year-old actor is in town this month to perform in 'Hamlet, Prince of Cuba' at the Asolo Rep.

  • Arts + Culture
This home at 301 N. Shore Road has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,842 square feet of living area. It sold for $864,800. Photo by Mallory Gnaegy.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • April 25, 2012
Country Club Shores home sells for $1 million

A home in Country Club Shores tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Ceasar and Patricia Millas, Longboat Key, sold their home at 591 Golf Links Lane to Vernon and Liliana Chalfant, Sarasota, for $1 million.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • April 25, 2012
BUSINESS OBSERVER

The Sarasota Open takes to the courts by serving local charities; Library to begin summer Schedule May 1

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Brian Gunnell
  • April 25, 2012
Bridge Bites: Stuff that doesn't happen

Last week, our astute Declarer remembered that his opponent had opened the bidding, sensibly deduced that said opponent must have the missing high cards and then played the hand accordingly. This week's deal is a bit more difficult, because Declarer must be alert to something that did not happen!

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Morton Hellwig submitted this sunset photo, taken on Beer Can Island.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 25, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Morton Hellwig submitted this sunset photo, taken on Beer Can Island.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Ricki Bertoni, Octavio Martin, Kate Honea, Jamie Carter and Ricardo Graziano create their own ballets for the 2011 to 2012 season closer "Theatre of Dreams." Photos by Rachel S. O'Hara.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • April 25, 2012
Sarasota Ballet dance a new role

Five Sarasota Ballet dancers try out new positions, as choreographers.

  • Arts + Culture
Jack Paul Rabito in "Give 'Em Hell, Harry." Courtesy photo
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • April 25, 2012
Scene & Heard

One-man Truman play shoots from the lip; Actor veers off Sesame Street, arrives in Sarasota; 10-Minute playwright keeps it short and sweet

  • Arts + Culture
Courtesy photo .
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • April 25, 2012
Film Review: 'Chimpanzee'

When was the last time you saw a film and helped save an endangered species? In the new film, "Chimpanzee," Disney has partnered with the Jane Goodall Institute and is donating 20 cents for every ticket sold opening week.

  • Arts + Culture
Soprano Dina Kuznetsova. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • April 25, 2012
Music Review: 'La Musica: M.Haydn, Faure and Bruckner'

Variety may be the spice of life but sometimes it's also what flavors a concert. When La Musica programmed works by Michael Haydn, Faure and Bruckner, the colors of different periods and styles must have looked great on paper.

  • Arts + Culture
One might never guess that this magnificent castle is teeming with nautical novelties and marine life.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • April 25, 2012
Decor: Under the Sea: Triton's Castle

The nautical theme throughout Terri Young's Siesta Key home stems from her love of the water, diving and underwater photography.

  • Arts + Culture
The Grandma Allison is a hybrid tea rose that was hybridized by Mallory in 2007 in honor of his grandmother. Many of the roses he hybridizes he names after important people in his life.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • April 25, 2012
Home & Garden: A Rosey Disposition

Ron Mallory's love for roses started in the late 1940s when victory gardens were all the rage.

  • Arts + Culture
"I think some of the most interesting performances are the ones that cause people to think about what they saw for a long period of time," says Caitlin McMullen, an apprentice with Fuzión Dance Artists.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • April 25, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Out of Bounds

For her role in this month's Fuzión Dance Artists/Jazz Juvenocracy collaboration, performer Caitlin McMullen is using her strengths as a modern dancer to help call the shots off stage.

  • Arts + Culture
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