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  • Robin Hartill
  • April 14, 2010
Publix employees save ... our seabirds, that is

About 35 volunteers worked at Save Our Seabirds last Saturday.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • April 14, 2010
Town Hall site considered for memorial

CDD 2 supervisors will vote on the item at their meeting Thursday.

  • East County
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • April 14, 2010
Key Club removes planters near Islandside course

The planters will be replaced with planting beds.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • April 14, 2010
CLASSROOM SPOTLIGHT: Ashton Elementary

Students at Ashton Elementary give their principal props for kissing a pig.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • April 14, 2010
Real-estate sales reach four-year high

With 753 total property sales, March saw the highest number of transactions since December 2005.

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  • Observer Staff
  • April 14, 2010
Grandmaster earns appointment

The World Taekwondo Changmookwan Association recently appointed Grandmaster Craig Balliette, owner of Lakewood Ranch Taekwondo Academy, to the position of director to all certification and seminars through the World Changmookwan.

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  • April 14, 2010
Our View

Try it: public-safety director

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    By
  • Dora Walters
  • April 14, 2010
After 30 years, teacher and student get a new deal

When part-time Lido Key resident Dr. Arthur Liebman welcomed recently the students attending his course on New Deal Drama, part of the Academy of Lifelong Learning at the University of South Florida, he took a second look at the man in the first row.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • April 14, 2010
The Diamonds You Are benefit is a gem

The Diamonds You Are held a benefit April 10, at Re Federico, in Avenue of the Flowers.

  • Longboat Key
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  • April 14, 2010
Duke takes top title

Duke University's men's basketball team clinched the NCAA title in a 61-59 win over Butler Monday, April 5.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 14, 2010
Colony dispute escalates

The Colony wants to bring in Days Inn founder William M. Hitson. The association board wants liquidation. And the Colony's lender warns of chaos and 'a disaster.'

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 14, 2010
Subcommittee revises Longboat's tree code

The town's new tree code subcommittee made changes it hopes the Town Commission will review next month.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 14, 2010
Commission plans its vision

Organization representatives told the Town Commission at its goals-and-objectives meeting that they want the Vision Plan to be implemented.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 14, 2010
In Brief

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 14, 2010
Pension board trustees disagree

Pension board trustees for the town's police and fire departments square off over the state of the town's three pension plans.

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