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The 2024 ENGAGE graduates and town department heads.
    By
  • Carter Weinhofer
  • June 7, 2024
Town employees graduate from first professional development course

Fourteen Longboat Key staff members complete the ENGAGE program.

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David Fink served as president of the board for the Lakewood Ranch Community Foundation and board chair for the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance.
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  • Jay Heater
  • June 7, 2024
Lakewood Ranch loses an altruistic force

David Fink says he feels he has left the area in a better place.

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County commissioners recently discussed the highest and best use of the fairgrounds site at 3000 Ringling Blvd.
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  • Andrew Warfield
  • June 7, 2024
County fairgrounds site's current use is likely its only use

County commissioners learn that as long as the 54-acre parcel near downtown hosts an agricultural fair, it can never reclaimed by the county.

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Bird Key ranked among nation's best retirement destinations
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 7, 2024
Bird Key ranked among nation's best retirement destinations

The Sarasota neighborhood was chosen as the 29th best place to retire in America in a survey of retirees by MarketBeat.

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See rare cactus bloom tonight at Selby Gardens
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 6, 2024
See rare cactus bloom tonight at Selby Gardens

The Queen of the Night is expected to blossom tonight in a once-annual display during a free viewing party.

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Pat Neal is chairman of Neal Communities.
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 6, 2024
Pat Neal donates award, and more, to land conservation group

Neal Communities chairman makes $350,000 gift to the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast.

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A colony of black skimmers on Lido Beach.
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  • Carter Weinhofer
  • June 6, 2024
Stewards help protect nesting shorebirds from threats

With nesting season in full effect, the Sarasota shorebird steward coordinator explains how volunteers can protect the vulnerable birds.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Carter Weinhofer
  • June 6, 2024
Inflation spells price tag increases for public safety equipment

Town staff outlined how infrastructure sales tax funds will be used in the upcoming fiscal year to purchase public safety equipment.

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Girlfriend of Battie murder suspect pleads not guilty to helping dispose of gun
    By
  • Jim DeLa
  • June 5, 2024
Girlfriend of Battie murder suspect pleads not guilty to helping dispose of gun

Nicole Roberts is charged with being a principal to second-degree murder with a firearm and is due in court June 7.

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The new long-range plan for Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport shows a new parking deck over the current short-term parking along with a new arrivals road, separating it from the departures traffic.
    By
  • Andrew Warfield
  • June 5, 2024
Airport has more than enough land to expand, says CEO

A planned new parking deck, more surface lots and acreage across the airfield mean the airport can afford to part with New College site.

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Fellow commissioners attend James Satcher's swearing in as the new Supervisor of Elections. From left to right: Amanda Ballard, Jason Bearden, Judge Gilbert A. Smith Jr., James Satcher, Mike Rahn and Kevin Van Ostenbridge.
    By
  • Lesley Dwyer
  • June 5, 2024
New elections supervisor secures 26% budget hike mid-year

The office received an $841,340 increase for the last four months of the fiscal year.

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A May 2024 rendering of the Sarasota County library on Longboat Key.
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  • Carter Weinhofer
  • June 5, 2024
Next up for Longboat Key public library? Fundraising

An early estimate for the core library is $11.1 million. Longboat needs private donors to make $3.5 million in enhancements possible.

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An overhead rendering of affordable housing community New Trail Plaza.
    By
  • Andrew Warfield
  • June 5, 2024
New affordable housing underway on the North Trail

Blue Sky Communities and CASL break ground on a new 96-unit affordable and attainable housing development on former Sarasota County property.

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The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee has received a cornerstone gift from Larry Greenspon that will be used for the redevelopment of its 32-acre campus on McIntosh Road in Sarasota.
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 4, 2024
Philanthropist donates $3.5M to Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Larry Greenspon's second major donation will help complete a recreational sports complex.

  • Sarasota
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  • Carter Weinhofer
  • June 4, 2024
Jewfish Key property owners retract de-annexation petition before public hearing

The Jewfish Key Preservation Association’s petition retraction canceled the hearing set for June 3, in which town commissioners would have accepted or denied the de-annexation.

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