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  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Our View: City joins TV media biz; ugh

The city of Sarasota launched City Business last week, a new television program aimed at covering businesses in the city.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Read this week's Cops Corner.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
Donors of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County met Oct. 6 to surprise employees of several service agencies with orchids. Photo by Loren Mayo.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • October 13, 2011
Community Foundation donors deliver smiles

Harry Leopold is attempting to sneak out of a group photograph. He's already in the elevator at the Community Foundation, heading upstairs, where he plans to watch 15 volunteers squeeze together and try not to block their faces with the tall blooming orchids they're about to deliver to local nonprofit organizations.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Susan Jones, executive vice president of JCI Chemical, Stephania Feltz, executive director of Girls Inc., and Max Hannum, vice president of human resources of JCI Chemical. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • October 13, 2011
Business Observer

Girls Inc. receives $100,000 donation; Octex breaks ground on $7.6 million expansion; SCF Technology and Simulation Center honored; Grapevine hires account executive; SunTrust Bank, Goodwill team up for workshops

  • Sarasota
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The home at 926 Indian Beach Drive has five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a pool and 3,918 square feet of living area. It sold for $859,000. Photo by Loren Mayo.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • October 13, 2011
A home in Old Oaks sells for $859,000

Jonathan Greene, of Verona, N.J., sold his home in Old Oaks at 926 Indian Beach Drive to Anita Dunn and Ellen Babbitt, of Chevy Chase, Md., for $859,000. Built in 2002, it has five bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,918 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $785,000 in 2004.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Janine Nunnery submitted this sunset photo, taken in Island Park in downtown Sarasota.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Weekly Winner: Moor to Love

Janine Nunnery submitted this sunset photo, taken in Island Park in downtown Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Our View: Caution on beach schedule

Sarasota County is considering a dramatically revved-up schedule for the renovations of Siesta Key Beach, but needs to be cautious about entering into anything that could be financially constricting.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • October 13, 2011
Commission delays hearing on new metals ordinance

Expressing concerns about sufficient exemptions, the Sarasota County Commission Tuesday asked county staff to push back a public hearing until December.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Cops Corner: Siesta Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Siesta residents have been keeping track of a boat (top right of photo) they first observed anchored about 200 yards off Beach Access 7. It since has moved farther from shore and up the Key’s coastline. Photo by Lourdes Ramirez.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • October 13, 2011
Island Beat: Boat offshore raises lots of questions

About the same time that property owners on North Beach Road began engaging in a dispute over their rights early this month, other Key residents started spreading the word about a sailboat anchored approximately 200 yards off the beach near Access 7.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Devin Miller and JoJo Zolikoff race each other on the BMX track. Loren Mayo.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • October 13, 2011
Sarasota BMX goes preschool

What seems to be chaos barreling down a BMX track is in reality carefully calculated moves, as two little racers jockey for position in a fierce fight for first place.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Lou Oberndorf, left, cofounded METI in 1996. The company has since become one the largest health-care technology firms on the Gulf Coast, with a focus in lifelike human simulators. Mike Bernstein, right, was named president of METI in 2009. File photo.
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • October 13, 2011
How the METI deal was done

The top executive for a $60 million Sarasota medical technology business took on a complicated mission: Find a buyer for the firm without sacrificing price. It was an exacting operation.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Gulf Gate Elementary School Principal Robin Magac and pre-kindergarten student Madelyn Cohen meet Zeus, a 6-month-old llama from Oak Crest Farms. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • October 13, 2011
Gulf Gate students join national reading initiative

The approximately 750 students at Gulf Gate Elementary School joined forces with students all across the country Oct. 6 to "Read for the Record," which emphasizes the importance of reading to young children in families of all income levels.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
This home at 5132 Jungle Plum Road has five bedrooms, five baths, two half-baths, a pool and 6,928 square feet of living area. It sold for $2,875,000. Photo by Loren Mayo.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • October 13, 2011
Hidden Harbor home tops week's sales at $2,875,000

A home in Hidden Harbor tops all transactions in this week's real estate.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Peter van Roekens submitted this photo of a late-evening sky on Siesta Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 13, 2011
Weekly Winner: Comical Contrails

Peter van Roekens submitted this photo of a late-evening sky on Siesta Key.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
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