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Unit 803 at The Ritz Carlton Beach Residences condominium, 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive, has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and 3,861 square feet of living area. It sold for $2,625,000.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 15, 2010
Beach Residences unit sells for $2,625,000

The sale was the largest of eight transactions recorded on Longboat, Lido, St. Armands and Bird keys during the week of Nov. 29 through Dec. 3, and was the only sale to exceed $1 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
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  • Observer Staff
  • December 15, 2010
Scoreboard

Get the latest bridge and golf scores

  • Longboat Key
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Oleda Baker, 75, is always ready for her close-up.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • December 15, 2010
Oleda Baker helps us break the age barrier

The author of 11 books and former model shares her beauty secrets and advice.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Donna Swan
  • December 15, 2010
Deal us in

Some hands look too easy

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Joseph S. Levine submitted this sunset photo, taken at the Bay Isles Beach Club.
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  • Observer Staff
  • December 15, 2010
Captive audience

Joseph S. Levine submitted this sunset photo, taken at the Bay Isles Beach Club.

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"I'm a fairly good swimmer, and my bike times are faster now than they were 20 years ago," Neil Wilson said of why he prefers the 70.3 IronMan.
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • December 15, 2010
Meet Horseshoe Cove's IronMan

Neil Wilson finished fifth in his age group at the IronMan 70.3 World Championship last month in Clearwater.

  • East County
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Seventh-grader Vito Bavaro plays both varsity and JV soccer for ODA.
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • December 15, 2010
Seventh-grader earns spot on Thunder squad

Vito Bavaro is the only seventh-grader to start on The Out-of-Door Academy's varsity boys soccer team. He also plays on the Florida Everblades' 97 hockey team.

  • East County
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East County resident Lynn Rasys said she especially loves the Perlman Music Program/Suncoast’s educational programming.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • December 15, 2010
Perlman/Suncoast tunes up for season

The Perlman Music Program/Suncoast named recently the East County's Lynn Rasys as its new development director.

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  • Observer Staff
  • December 15, 2010
Cops Corner 12.16.10

The suspect entered the store and was observed on surveillance video concealing a package of ice cream in his jacket and then exiting the store without paying for the item.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
This River Forest home has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,184 square feet of living area.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • December 15, 2010
River Forest home tops weekly sales

Ryan and Tracy Fox, Bradenton, sold their home at 5979 River Forest Circle to Gary Keller, Bradenton, for $425,000.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
Jacob Soles earned the title of the Mustangs' Most Outstanding Wrestler.
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • December 15, 2010
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Jacob Soles

Lakewood Ranch High School JV wrestler Jacob Soles pinned all four of his opponents to go undefeated at the Marauder Duals Dec. 4.

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Pamela Sumner grew up spending her summers in Provincetown, Mass., surrounded by the studios of the most revered abstract expressionists, including Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • December 15, 2010
Peace signs

Pamela Sumner grinds her own ink, lives in a funky Rosemary District studio and paints with rat whiskers. The Asian-inspired artist meditates on her Zen habits.

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"She's optimistic and open to new ideas," says Poppy Terris, left, of client Ada Leinwand. "She's like the poster child for how someone should live their life after they come out of a stroke."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • December 15, 2010
Therapeutic agent

Sarasota art therapist Poppy Terris demonstrates the mending methods of art therapy in a session with client Ada Leinwand.

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"I don't sit down and say, 'I'm going to write a song now,'" Olivia Little says. "I have a poem book I carry with me all the time, and I'll be walking to class and a lyric will hit me."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • December 15, 2010
Olivia Little makes her big country splash

The 13-year-old Sarasota singer is ready to release her new single, a love song she co-wrote this summer, in Nashville, with country star Jamie O'Neal.

  • Arts + Culture
Top row: Anise Bogen, or "arches," Schokolade Busserln, or chocolate kisses, and Schokolade Macaronen, chocolate macaroons. Bottom: Zimtsterne, or cinnamon stars, Rumkugeln, or rum balls, and Vanilla Kipferl.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • December 15, 2010
Edibles: Waters is nuts about cookies

Baking enthusiast Elisabeth Waters shares exclusive tips and recipes for Observer readers.

  • Arts + Culture
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