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  • Observer Staff
  • February 23, 2011
Our View

Quicker way to redevelop

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
John Neal, president of the John Neal Homes division of Neal Communities, is eager to be offering homesites in University Park again.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • February 23, 2011
FINISH LINE (with VIDEO)

John Neal Homes, the exclusive homebuilder in University Park Country Club, is working to build out the remainder of the 20-year-old community.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • February 23, 2011
Building Permits

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Feb. 11 through Feb. 17.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
The home at 623 Mourning Dove Drive has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a swimming pool and more than 6,000 square feet of living area. It sold for $4.5 million.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • February 23, 2011
A home on Bird Key sells for $4.5 million

The sale is the highest amount paid for a Bird Key property since May 2009, when the home at 552 S. Spoonbill Drive sold for $4.75 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Zimmerman
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • February 23, 2011
Real Estate Reports

Sylvia Zimmerman joins Michael Saunders & Co.; Signature Sotheby's announces 2010 top agents

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Gibson
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • February 23, 2011
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Jack Gibson

Key resident Jack Gibson has been playing golf for over 40 years.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • February 23, 2011
PHOTO OF THE WEEK It's a toss up

Alan Rosenstein prepares to return the ball over the net to his son, Josh, during a tennis game Monday, Feb. 21, at Bayfront Park Recreation Center. The Rosensteins are visiting William and Selma Tucker, who live on Longboat Key during part of the season. The Tuckers are Alan Rosenstein's in-laws and Josh Rosenstein's grandparents.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
This home in the Country Club of Lakewood Ranch features three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a pool. It sold for $657,500.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 23, 2011
Lakewood Country Club home sells for $657,500

ACPA Land Investments LLC sold the home at 7253 Greystone St. to John and Marlene Manatt, Lakewood Ranch, for $657,500.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
Baxter Bell, M.D., RYT 500 holds a side-angle pose.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 23, 2011
Baxter Bell to lead 'energetic' yoga classes

Baxter Bell will be holding yoga workshops at the Sarasota Memorial Healthplex March 4 through March 6.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 23, 2011
It's Read Everywhere

Observer readers brought their favorite local newspaper along to Australia and Israel.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Donna Swan
  • February 23, 2011
Deal Us In

How to set up an end play

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Jane Freeman submitted this sunset photo taken at the Broadway beach access on the north end of the Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 23, 2011
WEEKLY WINNER: Sweeping View

Jane Freeman submitted this sunset photo taken at the Broadway beach access on the north end of the Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
"My classmates don't get it. They think I’m standing up there with horns on my head," says Alex Koutelias, far left, with Hercules Della Rocca, Steve Dickman and Harvey Hoglund in the Sarasota Opera House courtyard.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • February 23, 2011
Super naturals

They may not sing, but they sure can talk. The Sarasota Opera performers you don't hear on stage sound off on their favorite hobby.

  • Arts + Culture
"I wanted to be a machinist so I could make my own stuff," says Eric McGrath, pictured here in G.WIZ's Fab Lab, which is currently under construction in the front wing of the museum.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • February 23, 2011
The Fab factor

Eric McGrath landed the creative foreman's dream job. The machinist explains how G.WIZ's new Fab Lab gives local inventors a high-tech advantage.

  • Arts + Culture
Bruce Jordan will occasionally perform in "Shear Madness." The last five times the director showed up on stage it was as snooty society doyenne Mrs. Shubert.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • February 23, 2011
'Mad' gabber returns to FST

The quirky co-creator of one of the longest-running nonmusical plays in the world returns to Sarasota for a second stab at 'Shear Madness.'

  • Arts + Culture
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