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Animal-rights group PETA proposes placing these pro-vegan ads on future downtown parking meters.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • January 13, 2011
PETA offers ads for parking meters

A female officer in revealing clothes is featured on an advertisement the animal-rights organization wants to place on parking meters.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 13, 2011
Palm-Aire tower application under consideration

A Manatee County hearing officer now is reviewing the application for Vertex Development to place a telecommunications tower in Palm-Aire.

  • East County
  • News
A liquidation sale at the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort is ongoing.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 13, 2011
Colony liquidation sale continues

Buyers continue to trickle in to the liquidation sale at the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Jane von Hahmann of the Manatee County School District made speed networking look easy.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 13, 2011
Business Alliance 'speeds' into new year

The Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance hosted its first networking event of 2011 Jan. 12 at The Polo Grill and Bar. Sixty alliance members participated in the group's first speed-networking event, taking just three minutes to share about themselves and their companies before swapping partners.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Out-of-Door Academy seniors Amelia Cotter and Tim Dobosz are pictured with Lynda Carver and Jenna and Avery Carver.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 13, 2011
Families attend Private School Fair

The Out-of-Door Academy and St. Stephen's Episcopal School welcomed families to the Polo Grill and Bar's Fete Ballroom Jan. 11 for the seventh annual Private School Fair event. More than 20 area schools were on hand to answer questions about their programs.

  • East County
  • News
Dorfman
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • January 13, 2011
Commission Changes

Nine candidates will jockey for three City Commission district seats in the city's March election. At least two districts will be represented by a new commissioner.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Sarasota Memorial Hospitals’s new Courtyard Tower, scheduled to open in 2013, will replace the oldest wings of the hospital.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • January 13, 2011
Sarasota Memorial Hospital marks 85 years

To kickoff its anniversary, Sarasota Memorial staff, volunteers, philanthropists and community leaders will gather Jan. 20, for the official "Breaking Ground" ceremony for the hospital's new Courtyard Tower.

  • Sarasota
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Don Hughes stands atop the pedestrian bridge that links two Gulf Gate neighborhoods. Hughes believes the bridge brought vandalism into his neighborhood.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • January 13, 2011
Bridge over troubled water

Gulf Gate residents, who fought against building a footbridge in their neighborhood, say their fears of vandalism have come true.

  • Sarasota
  • News
All that's left in the former Pine Shores Trailer Park is overgrown brush, a few trees and empty streets.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • January 13, 2011
Former trailer park may soon see movement

By late spring, dirt could be moved on the former trailer park at the Stickney Point Road gateway to Siesta Key. Two hotels are being discussed for the site.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Regular SCAT buses now serve Siesta Key from Siesta Drive to Stickney Point Road. By mid-year, only trolley-type vehicles will be seen on all routes on the Key.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • January 13, 2011
Siesta Key trolley receives service boost

A $1 million state grant will allow the county to operate a trolley system that will run the entire length of Siesta Key.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • January 13, 2011
Our View

Reason for optimism

  • Sarasota
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  • By Rod Thomson
  • January 13, 2011
My View

Politically incorrect suggestions

  • Sarasota
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The ceremony unveiling Selby Five Points Park's computerized lighting system took place Jan. 7.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • January 13, 2011
News Briefs

CCNA thanks the DID for park improvements; Selby Five Points Park sound system discussed; City and county offices to be closed for holiday

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 13, 2011
Central Sarasota County Little League Baseball registration begins

Registration dates for the spring 2011 season are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15 and 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, at Twin Lakes Park, 6700 Clark Road.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Jim Taylor enjoys riding his skateboard Saturday afternoon, at Payne Park's skate park.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 13, 2011
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Board Meeting

Jim Taylor enjoys riding his skateboard Saturday afternoon, at Payne Park's skate park.

  • Sarasota
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