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  • Observer Staff
  • September 22, 2011
Learn how to grant wishes

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Northern Florida will be hosting a wish granting training session Saturday, Oct. 1, for volunteers in the Suncoast Region.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
David Walkley, David Mitchem and Brad Durrance. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 22, 2011
Moving day is a roaring success

Two Men and a Truck's David Walkley and Brad Durrance were surprised when handed their job sheet for the day recently with instructions to move two full-mount trophies of African lions from Sarasota to Gainesville, to be displayed in the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida campus.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
When Gracie McMinn gets tired of walking during the Heart Walk, her dad carries her the rest of the way. Gracie loves cheerleading and is learning to play tennis.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • September 22, 2011
Young survivors share their heartfelt stories

Ten-year-old McLain Miller has a scar down the center of her chest. She calls it "her zipper."

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
The city of Sarasota already has two electric car-charging stations in the Palm Avenue parking garage. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 22, 2011
City receives jolt from new program

The city of Sarasota will be receiving six electric car-charging stations in a variety of locations from Florida Power & Light by the end of the year.

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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 22, 2011
FULL STORY: City Commission approves 5.3% millage increase

Sarasota city commissioners approved on second reading Tuesday a new fiscal year budget that raises the millage rate to 2.9249 mills.

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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 22, 2011
DID's marketing effort progresses

City leaders and business owners gave advertising updates at a marketing meeting this week hosted by the Downtown Improvement District.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 22, 2011
Letters to the Editor

Cover of 9/11 issue was in bad taste; Thanks for 9/11 remembrance coverage

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 22, 2011
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 22, 2011
Our View: Survey says ... not much

Sarasota County's annual citizens survey feels more like an exercise in putting on a happy face than in determining what residents actually think.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Ashley and Tim Gruters pose with their Observer newspaper in front of the Biltmore estate in Asheville, N.C. Courtesy photos.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • September 22, 2011
Neighbors: No Reservations

A four-day weekend tennis tournament became a 33-day road trip that led Sarasota couple all the way to New York City and back.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
A map released by the Florida Department of Transportation in June shows tentative sites for the 10 pedestrian islands along Midnight Pass Road between Beach Road and Stickney Point Road.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • September 22, 2011
Pedestrian plan peeves public

Condominium association members and others say a Florida Department of Transportation plan to construct 10 pedestrian islands on a 1-mile stretch of Midnight Pass Road will create more problems instead of helping people cross the road more safely.

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The current Gulf Gate Library opened in December 1983. File photo.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • September 22, 2011
Work could start before 2015 on new library

The Sarasota County Commission has agreed to the replacement of the Gulf Gate Library on its current Curtiss Avenue site and has asked staff to look at ways the project can be started sooner than the fiscal year 2015 timetable for which it has been slated.

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  • News
Residents of high-rise condominiums on Siesta often are unaware of the county fire code's specifications for alarms.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • September 22, 2011
Condo residents unaware of fire code regulations

In most high-rise condominium buildings, when a fire alarm on one floor goes off, alarms also sound on just the two floors above it and the floor below it, according to the county's chief Fire Prevention Division inspector.

  • Siesta Key
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    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • September 22, 2011
School board gets news of $14 million hole in next budget year

After approving its fiscal year 2012 budget, the Sarasota County School Board Tuesday examined early projections for revenues and expenses in 2013, including a projected shortfall of $14.5 million.

  • Siesta Key
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    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • September 22, 2011
Chair defends board's actions

County Commissioner Nora Patterson told a Tiger Bay Club audience that although the commission could have paid more attention to signs of trouble with procurement before a scandal erupted, the board was constrained by the county charter.

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