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Eddie Kirsch
September 7, 2011

Verizon Foundation donates $20,000 to Education Foundation

The Sarasota Education Foundation received a $20,000 check for 2011-2012 classroom grants programs at a school board meeting Sept. 6.

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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: Q&A with former City Editor Shay Sullivan

Former Longboat Observer City Editor Shay Sullivan produced the majority of the Observer's 9/11 and post-9/11 coverage. His probing into several leads in the weeks that followed led the Secret Service to investigate The Observer Group - for the first and only time.

Longboat Key
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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: Daniel Hoffe

Daniel Hoffe was attending a training program in the South Tower of the World Trade Centers when the Sept. 11 attacks occurred.

Longboat Key
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Observer Staff
September 7, 2011

9/11 Tributes

Key Club announces inaugural golf tournament; Town of Longboat Key preps for 9/11 memorial

Longboat Key
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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: Paul Berriff

Paul Berriff was filming an Animal Planet series Sept. 11 in Manhattan, N.Y., when he heard that the North Tower of the World Trade Center had been struck by a plane.

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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: Tramm Hudson

Tramm Hudson, former chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota County, was one of 12 people at the dinner table with President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001.

Longboat Key
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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: Katie Klauber Moulton

Katie Klauber Moulton, longtime president and general manager of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, hosted President George W. Bush on his overnight visit Sept. 10, 2001.

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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: George Ceshker

Longboat Key resident George Ceshker was in the cockpit of an American Airlines Boeing 767 on Sept. 11. The plane took off from Manhattan, N.Y., seven minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Ceshker retired four years after Sept. 11 and later opened a Secur-All Insurance branch. But the events of that tragic day stay with him.

Longboat Key
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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: John Kintz

Former Longboat Key Police Chief John Kintz was prepared for business as usual as he planned for President George W. Bush's stay on Longboat Key. But Bush's overnight stay on Sept. 10, 2001, turned out to be anything but routine.

Longboat Key
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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: Robert Dinan

Robert Dinan, co-owner of Kitchens by Kerrie on Longboat Key, served on the New York Police Department from 1996 to 2010. He was at his Long Island, N.Y., home Sept. 11, 2001, when he learned that a plane had hit the first tower.

Longboat Key
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Robin Hartill
September 7, 2011

9/11 Looking Back: Claire Hunter

Claire Hunter and her husband, Ralph, who founded the Longboat Observer, were among volunteers on-hand Sept. 10, 2001, at the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort to greet President George W. Bush.