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  • By Stuart and Lois Scheyer
  • January 6, 2010
Travel outlook

Make 2010 your year to be an 'Energetic Traveler.'

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Longboat Key - Building Permits

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the weeks of Dec. 18 through Dec. 31, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • January 6, 2010
Longboat Key - Realty sales on Key rise to get in under deadline

In the four weeks from Nov. 30 through the Christmas holidays, 51 real-estate sales were recorded at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses. Of these, 18 were for more than $1 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
IS TOWN HALL TOXIC?

In a letter to Lakewood Ranch Community Development District supervisors last month, former Town Hall employee Sue Kara called it a 'toxic and dysfunctional environment.'

  • East County
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
Donna Hayes takes county's top seat

District 5 Commissioner Donna Hayes will lead the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners in 2010.

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
Residents bring military tradition to Sarasota

Lakewood Ranch's Gene Sweeney and Michael Evers are offering horse-drawn caisson burials for service members who died from enemy action.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Michael Eng and Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
Despite economy, church growth continues out east

Living Lord Lutheran Church completed recently its 3,500-square-foot expansion, while RiverLife Church is in the middle of the largest change in its 90-plus-year history.

  • East County
  • News
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • January 6, 2010
SISTER ACT

Siblings Kaitlyn and Sarah Wolfe are a dual threat on the Lakewood Ranch High soccer field this season.

  • East County
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 6, 2010
Business Observer

Linda Loscalzo, who owned the former Isabelle's Eatery until 2004, is now managing restaurant operations at Whitney Beach Deli & Wines, 6810 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

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  • Neighbors
  • By George Rauch
  • January 6, 2010
Market watch: What will the next year hold?

Dec. 31, 2009, represented the closing of the worst decade in U.S. stock market history. Although it is not possible to guess what the next decade will render, it is possible to look ahead at a few of the challenges facing our economy in 2010.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Donna Swan
  • January 6, 2010
Deal Us In

Be prepared

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Bright beginning

Graeme Daley submitted this sunset photo, taken the first day of 2010 at The Sanctuary. Please send your sunset (or sunrise) photos to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228, or e-mail them to [email protected].

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
IN-DEPTH: A Soldier's Diary

Sgt. Maj. Steve Valley kept a journal from the day he was mobilized for war to the day he left the Middle East on Jan. 30, 2005. Now, his story is available to the public.

  • East County
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Cops Corner 01.07.10

The complainant reported the theft of his gargoyle statue. He doesn't know who took the statue. However, he stated there were young adults hiding and playing around in his yard and the neighbors' yards during the night.

  • East County
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  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Birth Announcements 01.07.10

Congratulations to the East County parents who celebrated recent births. The East County Observer will publish birth announcements each month.

  • East County
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