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Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant announced its closure Wednesday via signs on the doors Wednesday.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant sold

New owners Mark Caragiulo and Tom Leonard have plans for a new Longboat Key restaurant similar to Shore on St. Armands Circle. The restaurant will stay closed for 10 months to a year.

  • Longboat Key
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Longboat Key Turtle Watch volunteers Jennifer Sargeant, Lindsey Conrad, Kelley, Jim and Niko Kuncis and Cyndi Seamon
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 8, 2015
Turtle Watch asks residents to share the beach

During turtle nesting season, visitors, residents and businesses are encouraged to move their belongings away from the beach to help turtles. Many, however, are leaving items behind, which can cause problems for nesting turtles.

  • Longboat Key
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Corbin Durfee
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • July 8, 2015
Occasions: birth announcements

The East County Observer welcomes the area's newest additions.

  • East County
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Polo Grill and Bar owner Tommy Klauber and relative Spyder Broussard, who grew up in Houma, La., outside New Orleans.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • July 8, 2015
Polo Grill heats up with Cajun fun

The Polo Grill and Bar will host its annual fish fry and shrimp boil this weekend.

  • East County
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Benderson's additional 700,000 square feet of retail and office space will be located north of Nathan Benderson Park, primarily along property immediately west of Interstate 75, but east of The Mall at University Town Center, pictured here.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • July 8, 2015
Benderson expansion gets yellow light

The Sarasota County Commission slows construction plans for the University Town Center to accommodate pending traffic improvements.

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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • July 8, 2015
CEVA HOA takes on new role: home owner

Typically, homeowners associations’ hands are tied in maintaining distressed properties, but one Lakewood Ranch HOA is in a unique position to protect its owners.

  • East County
  • News
Planning, Zoning and Building Director Alaina Ray is the director of a department that’s in the middle of a staffing crisis. (Kurt Schultheis)
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
PZ&B scrambles to keep up with permits

With the Longboat Key's building department hitting record-breaking permits numbers this year, the town is searching to find extra staff to keep up with a contractor demand for permits.

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Longboat Key firefighter/paramedics want the Longboat Key Town Commission to tell them what they are worth.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Millage rate stays flat at 2.1763 mills

The $504,061 increase from Longboat Key property value increases, along with other line item adjustments, reduces an estimated $426,000 deficit to $389,675.

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The exterior of the social center building will feature a wraparound veranda, a covered patio, an outdoor entertaining area with grills and a fire pit, and all new landscaping. (courtesy rendering)
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Players Club undergoes $1.3 million renovation

Longboat Key Players Club unit owners approved a $1.3 million construction project for a new social center last year.

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Marvin Jaffe, 78, was found lying at the bottom of his pool in the 600 block of Halyard Lane around 10:30 a.m. June 23.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Country Club Shores man found dead in pool

Country Club Shores man was found dead in the bottom of his swimming pool June 23, according to a Longboat Key police report.

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Rick and Carol Ohlendorf, of Panther Ridge, say Pine Island should be protected.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • July 8, 2015
County, SWFWMD seek solution for Pine Island

SWFWMD, owner of the 66-acre Pine Island, hopes to have another entity assume ownership.

  • East County
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Marla Doss, 55, started as residential director at Community Haven for Adults and Children with Disabilities 30 years ago; now, she's president and CEO.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • July 8, 2015
Conversation with Marla Doss

Marla Doss, CEO and president of Community Haven for Adults and Children with Disabilities, hit her 30th anniversary June 25.

  • East County
  • News
Glatz shares "Kasztner's Train," a book by Anna Porter about Rudolf Kasztner effort to save 1,684 Jews during the Holocaust.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 8, 2015
Conversation with Rifka Glatz

Holocaust survivor Rifka Glatz shares her story.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • July 8, 2015
Letters deliver common ground to East County, Israeli student

Since Haile Middle School student Natalie Mount formed a pen pal relationship with an Israeli girl, Lia Silber, political unrest has eased. Now their letters focus less on turmoil and more on teen talk.

  • East County
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    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • July 7, 2015
County to net $11.4 million in BP settlement

Sarasota County commissioners on Tuesday accepted the county's portion of oil company's $18.7 billion settlement of lawsuits filed in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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