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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • June 23, 2010
Town requests input for Bay Isles Road sign

The Town Commission wants business owners to provide input before it places names on its Bay Isles Road wayfinding sign.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • June 23, 2010
Town will enforce chair removal at beach access

Vice Mayor Jim Brown said the chairs people leave behind at the Gulfside Road beach access 'are not very attractive.'

  • Longboat Key
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  • Matt Walsh
  • June 23, 2010
Our View: Lessons from 'the vote'

It's difficult to erase the ending to last week's Longboat Key Town Commission meeting. It was surreal.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Sylvia McNichol
  • June 23, 2010
BP ads adding insult to injury

I know business is tough, and you are getting what you can get. But, the BP ads about the oil spill are just too much.

  • East County
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 23, 2010
Sisters tops at talent show

East County sisters Eliza, 10, and Audrey Lipton, 9, won top honors at Temple's Got Talent, a lively dinner and talent show at Temple Emanu-El.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 23, 2010
Resident continues fight against Summerfield HOA

Joani Ellis says the Summerfield/Riverwalk Association is withholding information. The association's attorney disagrees.

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 23, 2010
Family questions bank's foreclosure proceedings

Eight days before GMAC Mortgage formally took the title of the Meyers' home, it changed the locks. Many of the family's belongings still were inside.

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 23, 2010
Rio named new BRE principal

Hayley Rio, assistant principal at Prine Elementary School, will be taking Braden River Elementary's top post this summer.

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 23, 2010
American Ideals breaks ground on veterans park

The park in San Marco Plaza should be finished by Veterans Day.

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 23, 2010
Inside Central Park

Developer Pat Neal shares his vision for Lakewood Ranch's newest community - its first north of State Road 70.

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 23, 2010
News Briefs 06.24.10

A man threatening he had a vial and syringe containing the AIDS virus robbed the Lakewood Ranch Hallmark June 18.

  • East County
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 23, 2010
Letters to the Editor

To send in your letters, please e-mail them to [email protected], or mail them to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, 34228.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Stuart Scheyer
  • June 23, 2010
My View

How curious: Welcome to Longboat Land

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 23, 2010
Cops Corner

Money hungry 12:08 p.m. -- 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Lost Property. A man reported that his wife left her purse in a grocery store shopping cart. The purse was not found.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 23, 2010
Home Run

Construction to begin soon on Christ Church.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
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