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Courtesy Sarasota Bay Water Festival
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  • Amanda Morales
  • September 17, 2014
Water festival exhibitor applications available

Does your club or local business plan on attending the Sarasota Bay Water Festival? The deadline for exhibitor applications to have a tent is Wednesday, Oct. 1.

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The Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County has lifted the no-swim advisory at north Lido Beach.
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  • Alex Mahadevan
  • September 17, 2014
County lifts no-swim advisory for north Lido

Sarasota County health officials received test results Monday, that showed the water quality on north Lido Beach met state and federal standards.

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Sarasota County deputies are looking for a white male in his 30s with tattoos on both arms in connection with a Sept. 6 vehicle burglary on Siesta Key.
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • September 17, 2014
VIDEO: Deputies seek suspect in Siesta condo crimes

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has released surveillance footage of a man suspected of burglarizing a car at the Siesta Gulf View condominiums this month.

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The bananas foster is a Cafe L'Europe classic dessert prepared tableside en flambe.
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  • Observer Staff
  • September 17, 2014
IN THE KITCHEN WITH: Cafe L'Europe

This week we went in the kitchen at Cafe L'Europe, with owner Betsie Coolidge, while servers prepare two signature tableside dishes, shrimp Pernod and bananas foster. Get the recipes and watch an instructional video in this week's 'In the Kitchen.'

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  • Robin Hartill
  • September 17, 2014
Business Briefs

Three businesses close St. Armands locations; Patchington event to benefit SPARCC; Lazy Lobster Longboat Key resumes its lunch service

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Don Wallace
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  • Observer Staff
  • September 17, 2014
Fast times at Plymouth Harbor

Don Wallace posed for us behind a slick pair of wheels Sept. 12, at the Plymouth Harbor Wellness Center ribbon-cutting ceremony.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Caleb Motsinger
  • September 17, 2014
North end may get parking break

Commissioners unanimously consented to forward an ordinance restricting Village parking to their October regular meeting.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 17, 2014
Colony Lender files foreclosure suit against owners

A lawsuit filed Friday by Colony Lender LLC claims that unit owners owe it more than $5.1 million in damages from a disputed recreational facilities lease.

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W. Howard Rooks. Photo by Caleb Motsinger
  • By Caleb Motsinger
  • September 17, 2014
Restaurant that's Amore' to open in October

W. Howard Rooks and Andrea Bozzolo plan to open a new Italian eatery in the vacant former Mattison's Steakhouse at the Plaza building.

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A subaqueous pipeline has transported wastewater from Longboat Key to the Manatee County wastewater treatment plant for the past 41 years. The town is beginning the process of replacing the pipeline. Photo by Caleb Motsinger
  • By Caleb Motsinger
  • September 17, 2014
Town seeks funding for pipe dream

The town moves closer to building a new wastewater pipeline beneath Sarasota Bay as the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program addresses ways to help find funding.

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When William "Bill" Passarelli returned from his Honor Flight Sept. 9, his wife, Teresa Passarelli, and other family members greeted him with signs. Photo by Amanda Sebastiano
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • September 17, 2014
Honoring heroes

The sight of the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. evoked both a sense of sadness and pride for resident William Passarelli.

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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • September 17, 2014
Key SMR executive heads to Brevard County

SMR officials say they have no timeline for hiring a replacement.

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Modifications to improve the interchange of I-75 and State Road 70 include a bypass lane for westbound State Road 70 to southbound I-75.
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • September 17, 2014
Interchange improvements underway

FDOT spokesman Robin Stublen said the I-75/S.R. 70 interchange project helps set the stage for what FDOT calls the ultimate I-75 alignment -- two express lanes, three general use lanes and an auxiliary lane in each direction.

  • East County
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Richard "Rick" Bennett Jr. and his father, Richard Bennett, love the idea of a water park at Tom Bennett Park. They say their relative, Tom Bennett, for who the park was named, would have loved the idea, too. Photo by Amanda Sebastiano
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • September 17, 2014
Bennetts back water park plunge

A $20 million aquatic center in East County at Tom Bennett Park could attract visitors and create local jobs.

  • East County
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  • Observer Staff
  • September 17, 2014
News Briefs

Sarasota issues no-swim advisory for Lido Beach; Commission to adopt budget Sept. 22; Plymouth Harbor takes steps to honor first responders

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