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  • Observer Staff
  • July 27, 2009
Detours begin today for S.R. 64, 70

Several East County roads will have detours during the next several weeks as the Florida Department of Transportation continues its resurfacing project of Interstate 75.

  • East County
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 27, 2009
Who owns Beer Can Island?

The town of Longboat Key and Manatee County disagree about who should be responsible for the popular swath of sand.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • July 24, 2009
School district names its Principal of the Year

Tuttle Elementary School Principal Tom Buchanan and Heron Creek Middle School Assistant Principal Jean Thompson received top honors from Sarasota County School District.

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  • Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2009
Pittsburgh Pirates hit homerun for education

Representatives of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team will score big with the Manatee County School Board July 27 when they will donate more than $10,500 to support education in Manatee County.

  • East County
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2009
Suds Sports celebrates reopening

Ellenton Suds Sports Grill will have live music, activities for kids and more from noon to 5 p.m., Saturday, at the grill, 5309 29th St. E.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2009
LECOM welcomes Class of 2013

Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Bradenton is readying to usher in a new class of medical students. An open house is scheduled for the Class of 2013 from 9 a.m. to noon, July 26.

  • East County
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  • Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2009
Snow in Ranch's weekend forecast

Arts A Blaze Studio will hold its official grand opening on Main Street Lakewood Ranch from 11 a.m.t o 4 p.m., July 25.

  • East County
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  • By Maggie Pahos
  • July 24, 2009
Man on the street: In writing

We browsed downtown Sarasota to ask people what are their favorite summer reads.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Maggie Pahos
  • July 24, 2009
Man on the street: Key beach reads

We hit Circle Books, on St. Armands Circle, and the nearby beach to ask people what is on their bookshelf this summer.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 24, 2009
O'Connor qualifies for District 3

One Longboat Key Town Commission seat is up for grabs and three other seats could be challenged in 2010.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • July 24, 2009
City holds millage rate steady

The City Commission decided not to raise taxes to offset a drop in revenue.

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    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • July 23, 2009
Siesta Key home sells for $1.8 million

A home in Mira Mar Beach tops all sales in this week's real-estate transactions. Hubbard and Claire Singleton, of Cobb, Ga., sold their home at 65 Beach Road to Stuart Johnson, of Dallas, for $1.8 million.

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  • Observer Staff
  • July 23, 2009
Cops Corner

A woman in the beach parking lot saw a man and woman standing by her car and pushing a note through a crack in the window.

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  • Observer Staff
  • July 23, 2009
Letters to the Editor

To send in your letters, please e-mail them to [email protected], or mail them to The Sarasota Observer, 1517 State Street, Sarasota, 34236. The Sarasota Observer gives priority to letters of local interest and about local issues. The Observer will print all letters to the editor if it feels they are of general interest, but only if the letter is signed and the author's street address and phone number are given. The editor reserves the right to condense letters.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Rick Scott
  • July 23, 2009
The Health Plan

$1.5 trillion: How is that 'saving'?

  • East County
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