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  • June 18, 2009
Obituaries

Ethel "Terry" Teal Crutchfield, 87, of Longboat Key, died Sunday, June 14.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • June 18, 2009
Paving company reschedules completion

The Manatee County portion of Gulf of Mexico Drive will now begin its final striping Sunday, June 21.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • June 18, 2009
Indian Beach home sells for $3 million

A Bay Shore Road home tops all sales in this week's real-estate transactions. John and Glynis Murray, of Sarasota, sold their home at 4521 Bay Shore Road to Bank of America NA, trustee, for $3 million.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 18, 2009
Cops Corner

Cops Corner

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Rod Thomson
  • June 18, 2009
My View

New growth bill necessary

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 18, 2009
Our View

TIFs, CRAs: Unearned benefits

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 18, 2009
In Brief

Community News and Notes

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 18, 2009
Kids adore their dads

The little ones plan to bake cakes and make cards this Father's Day, which falls on Sunday. After they finished learning about sea turtles and fish, we sat down with several Mote Marine Aquakids campers just before the big day to ask what makes their dads so special. Here's what they said:

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • June 18, 2009
Roundabouts increase time

Although it's widely believed that roundabouts save time, the city's consultant finds that the trips between downtown and the barrier islands would take up to a minute longer.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 18, 2009
Booker High Key Club awarded trophy for project

The Booker High School Key Club received recognition for book collection project it recently completed to help youths learn to read during the 2009 Global Youth Service Day and sponsored by Youth Engaged in Service.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam McTeer
  • June 18, 2009
FPL seeks rate increase

Florida Power & Light is seeking state approval to increase customer's base rates by 31%.

  • East County
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 18, 2009
New College salutes captain with flagpole memorial

He spent his career sinking ships, disabling Japanese aircraft carriers and searching the seas for survivors. But here in Sarasota and on Siesta Key, Capt. Ralph E. Styles was most known for the simple task of daily raising and lowering the flag outside his house on Beach Road.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 18, 2009
Pets in the City turns two years old

Sarasota sure got its inner Geisha and Ronin on Friday, June 12, at Horsefathers.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • June 18, 2009
Ponzi pair e-mails friends

The SEC says a Sarasota couple were part of a scheme that used $14 million of investors' money to pay gambling debts and mortgage payments, but in an e-mail, one Sarasota suspect places the blame elsewhere.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 18, 2009
Rays hit homerun for Manatee schools

The Tampa Bay Rays donated $5,000 to the school district to benefit Baseball Math, a curriculum developed by a Freedom Elementary teacher.

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