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News

    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • November 18, 2015
Conversation with Michael Saunders

Michael Saunders, the woman whose local real estate empire surpassed $2 billion in sales last year, grew up barefoot on the north end of Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
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Longbeach Village peacocks that evade trappers will be shot with a tranquilizer dart.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • November 18, 2015
Commission seeks to reduce peacock population

A trapper could get a golden egg of $25,000 to cull the Longbeach Village peacock population to 12 males.

  • Longboat Key
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Dave Bullock would rather have more paid time off on his boat to fish with his wife, Donna, and grandson Evan Ohern, 3, whom Bullock calls “a great fisherman.”
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • November 18, 2015
Bullock turns down 4% raise

Longboat Key Town Manager Dave Bullock is fine with his $180,000 salary, but the avid boater floats one request before the commission.

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The Bay Isles Master Association Board voted Monday afternoon not to allow the town to use the more convenient Bay Isles Beach Club as one of its access points for dump trucks bringing sand to the sand starved shoreline.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • November 18, 2015
Bay Isles denies town beach access

Despite pleas from the town, Bay Isles residents won’t open their private beach club to dump trucks for an upcoming project to replenish shores in need of sand.

  • Longboat Key
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District 1 Commissioner Armando Linde
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • November 18, 2015
Commissioners Linde, Zunz: Sitting soon on a dais near you

Armando Linde and Ed Zunz will become the newest town commissioners in March, after the deadline for candidates to qualify passes without challengers.

  • Longboat Key
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Lakewood Ranch High tuba players practice for an upcoming regional competition.
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • November 18, 2015
Lakewood Ranch, Braden River high schools offer brass tactics

East County tuba players sound off about the heaviest, largest instrument in the marching band.

  • East County
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Builders may have to pay 50% more to construct new homes in Manatee County.
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • November 18, 2015
Manatee County School Board says impact fees make sense

Funds needed to build new schools or additions as expected population boom hits.

  • East County
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Janyel Smith, 26, is the youngest agriculture instructor in Manatee County.
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • November 18, 2015
Lakewood Ranch High teacher plows through stereotypes

Janyel Smith embodies Farm City Week's 'Women in Agriculture' theme.

  • East County
  • News
Local Remote Area Medical organizers Dr. Richard Conard and Doug Schiller are still seeking dentists for the Saturday and Sunday free clinic.
    By
  • Jay Heater
  • November 18, 2015
Huge need for volunteer dentists at RAM event

Free medical clinic expects to attract more than 2,500 patients.

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John Robinson, 12-year resident of Waterlefe, spoke up during the meeting. "There's no real alternative," he said. "It's more where, if bond holders have someone willing to give them anything."
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • November 18, 2015
Unpaid bonds create golf course hazard

Waterlefe CDD considers best ways to deal with inherited debt.

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Luca Munoz, a kindergarten student at Gullett, gets up close and personal with a fossil held by Meghan Murphy of the South Florida Museum at STEM night.
    By
  • Jay Heater
  • November 17, 2015
SIDE OF RANCH: JAY HEATER

Hey, the mosquito larvae is only one room over

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    By
  • Jack Short
  • November 17, 2015
County agrees to borrow $1.65 million for new voting equipment

County Commissioners elect not to give current voting system vendors a bid to fix or replace current equipment.

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    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • November 17, 2015
Hospital Board elects officers

Sarasota Memorial Health Care System’s governing body elected former AT&T project manager Gregory Carter as its chairman Monday.

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    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • November 17, 2015
WCI Communities seeks approval for new East County development

The project is set for Upper Manatee River Road.

  • East County
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Director of Homeless Services Wayne Applebee addresses the Sarasota County Commission.
    By
  • Jack Short
  • November 17, 2015
UPDATE: County passes on city's homeless shelter site proposal

The Sarasota County Commission dismissed a city proposal to locate a shelter on county-owned land, highlighting an ongoing divide between the two governments on the issue.

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