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  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

Through Sarasota Film Festival's Outreach and Education Department, middle-school classes participated in the Classroom Critic program and screened official short films selected for the festival's youthFEST. This week, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

Through Sarasota Film Festival's Outreach and Education Department, middle-school classes participated in the Classroom Critic program and screened official short films selected for the festival's youthFEST. This week, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

Through Sarasota Film Festival's Outreach and Education Department, middle-school classes participated in the Classroom Critic program and screened official short films selected for the festival's youthFEST. This week, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
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Megan Wallin
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • March 31, 2011
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Megan Wallin

Megan Wallin, a Sarasota native, is the founder of SpikeKey. Wallin has focused on playing beach volleyball and on running SpikeKey, which offers volleyball clinics on Siesta Key beach.

  • Sarasota
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Mikeya Jackson and Alexcia Cavanaugh are learning to play songs for the school’s cultural fair.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • March 31, 2011
Bay Haven students rock out on homemade guitars

When you're in fourth grade, not much beats building your own guitar from scratch and then hoisting it up like you're a rockstar.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • March 31, 2011
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Megan Wallin

Megan Wallin, a Sarasota native, is the founder of SpikeKey. Wallin has focused on playing beach volleyball and on running SpikeKey, which offers volleyball clinics on Siesta Key beach. Wallin has played all over the world and is gearing up for another season of beach volleyball competitions.

  • Siesta Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 31, 2011
COPS CORNER

Looks fishy March 22, 7 p.m. -- 1 block of Marina Plaza. Burglary. The owner of a fishing boat reported an on-board burglary. Someone had jimmied the door to get inside and stole 11 fishing rods, valued at $1,600.

  • Sarasota
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This home at 751 Siesta Key Circle has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths and 4,717 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.9 million.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • March 31, 2011
Casey Key home sells for $2.6 million

A home on Casey Key tops all the transactions in this week's real estate, Aquos Properties LLC sold the home for $2.6 million.

  • Sarasota
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Harold Ashby submitted this sunset photo, taken on Siesta Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 31, 2011
WEEKLY WINNER: WATER'S EDGE

Harold Ashby submitted this sunset photo, taken on Siesta Key.

  • Sarasota
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Diane Block had her eye on a Godiva chocolate gift basket.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • March 31, 2011
GALLERY: Elegantly Fresh

Ladies in the Lakewood Ranch Women's Club gathered March 30 at the Polo Grill and Bar's Fete Ballroom for the club's fifth annual luncheon and fashion show, which this year was themed "Elegantly Fresh."

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Guest speaker Katherine Oliver and Jeanne Corcoran
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • March 30, 2011
Women in Partnership Luncheon featuring Katherine Oliver

Women in Partnership Luncheon featuring Katherine Oliver

  • Black Tie
Marilee Arnold and Marita Annis
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • March 30, 2011
Go Red for Women Luncheon

Go Red for Women Luncheon

  • Black Tie
The table identifies the dates changes occurred to the Longboat Key Firefighters' pension plans and shows how they influenced the growth in the unfunded liabilities.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 30, 2011
OUR VIEW: Pay hikes doomed the pensions

Firefighters' union reps, move on. Accept that your pension benefits need to be scaled back.

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Primrose School kindergartner Cameron Phayre and his father, Scott, celebrated after learning their family had won third-prize in the Family Dance-off video contest.
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • March 30, 2011
GALLERY: Phayre Family Celebration

Kindergarten students at Primrose School at Lakewood Ranch Town danced their hearts out in celebration after fellow classmate Cameron Phayre and his family were named the third-prize winners of the Family Dance-off March 30. In honor of the Phayre family's victory, Primrose presented a $15,000 check to All Children's Hospital. The Phayre family also received a check for $1,500.

  • East County
  • Schools
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • March 30, 2011
DUI suspect left kids home alone

Sarasota County Sheriff's Office reports state Jennifer Calvillo, 29, was driving 70 mph in a 45 mph zone with her 12-year-old daughter in the car and her two other children, ages 3 and 6, home alone.

  • Sarasota
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