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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 2, 2010
OBITUARY: Marvin Apple

Marvin Apple, 84, was a resident of Pittsburgh and Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 2, 2010
Labor Day Regatta sets sail

The Sarasota Sailing Squadron's 64th annual regatta takes place Sept. 3-5.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 2, 2010
Pipeline construction continues (WITH VIDEO)

Connecting and pressurizing new water pipelines has begun at Bay Isles Road and Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • September 2, 2010
STORE AROUND THE CORNER: Sniglet's Dog Bakery

You won't find many businesses where you are greeted at the door by the company's chief operating officer, but at Sniglet's Dog Bakery, you get something close.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • September 2, 2010
Couple heats up culinary competition

Sarasota resident Nicole Luciana-Epperson and her husband, Jonathan, have been selected as one of 10 semifinalists in a national Pyrex culinary challenge.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • September 2, 2010
Designing Women makes donation

Wrapped up in pretty pink-and-white gift bags were 21 pairs of upscale silky pajama sets and 21 pairs of matching bedroom slippers.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • September 2, 2010
Panel debates racial makeup

A Police Advisory Panel adviser said if the city does not mandate that blacks be appointed to a permanent police panel, then that panel would be 'nearly racist.'

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • September 2, 2010
CCNA chief: Make employees live here

Kate Lowman believes city employees would be more invested in city affairs if they lived within Sarasota city limits.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • September 2, 2010
Turner wants to shift more power to manager

City Commissioner Terry Turner wants to change the city charter to require that all positions report to the city manager.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • September 2, 2010
Hollaway applies for chief's position

A group of citizens is pushing a petition that urges the city manager to give the police chief's job to interim Police Chief Mikel Hollaway.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • September 2, 2010
News Briefs 09.02.10

As the city's Charter Review Committee prepares to discuss a proposed change to Sarasota's election schedule, the city of Bradenton has issued a change of its own.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • September 2, 2010
Talented residents begin warming up for auditions

Auditions for the second Sarasota's Got Talent show are Sept. 11.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • September 2, 2010
New brewpub gets crafty with selections

After his deal to open a brewpub in St. Petersburg fell through a year ago, The Mad Crow Brewery co-owner Darren Fehring explored the area and fell in love with Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2010
OUR VIEW: Trash talk

The good news: Residential garbage rates in the city of Sarasota dropped $3 a month effective Wednesday - to $21.66. This will save about $700,000 in a year.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Rod Thomson
  • September 2, 2010
MY VIEW: The Dream Crushers

We've ceded far too much power to government and her bureaucrats. It is not overwrought to say it is a step toward the end of the American dream.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
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