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  • By Catherine Luckner
  • January 19, 2012
My View: It's a matter of making decisions and finding common ground

We are great consumers of news, advice and opinions from people we might never meet.

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  • January 19, 2012
Letters to the Editor

The Key must remainsafe for everyone; Resident offers ideafor crosswalk lights

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Read this week's Cops Corner.
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  • Observer Staff
  • January 19, 2012
Cops Corner: Pelican Press

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

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The Sarasota Power and Sail Squadron offers numerous courses designed to improve boater safety. Photo by Norman Schimmel.
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • January 19, 2012
New commander focused on squadron's community role

For only the fourth time in the chapter's 60 years, a woman has become commander of the Sarasota Power and Sail Squadron.

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Twins Alex and Nick Miller are excited to compete in the Florida International Triathlon. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 19, 2012
Neighbors: Alex Miller

Along with this twin brother, Nick, the teen loves all things athletic.

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Floridays Development Co. is proposing a 200-room hotel similar to the architectural style of the building below.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 19, 2012
Downtown hotel proposals revealed

City staff is wrestling with finance options for two hotel proposals submitted for the Palm Avenue site.

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City Manager Bob Bartolotta agreed to resign Tuesday. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 19, 2012
Resignation aftermath

The Sarasota City Commission will meet Friday to discuss the possibility of hiring Terry Lewis as interim city manager.

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Contention continues between the County Commission and two citizens groups that sued the county last year over the Baltimore Orioles spring training agreement. Photo by Norman Schimmel.
  • By Rachel Hackney and Kurt Schultheis
  • January 19, 2012
Citizens group says it can't pay settlement

A Sarasota County judge ordered a citizens group to pay the county more than $19,000 in legal fees after the county won a 2010 Sunshine Laws case, but the fees remain unpaid.

  • Siesta Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 19, 2012
Lido Pool supporters reveal goals

The Lido Key Residents Association and a Lido Pool Committee have offered short- and long-term goals for keeping the pool open.

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 19, 2012
Commission approves P.F. Chang's proposals

Thanks to a City Commission vote Jan. 17, a P.F. Chang's China Bistro is coming to downtown Sarasota.

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  • Observer Staff
  • January 19, 2012
News Briefs

Republican candidates to stump in Sarasota; DSA expands First Friday to every Friday; Local food bank event planned this weekend

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    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • January 19, 2012
Culverhouse sues county over thwarted development

The owner of Palmer Ranch claims in a lawsuit that county development guidelines have prevented him from developing about 2,300 acres east of Interstate 75.

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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 19, 2012
Shaw urges residents to fight back

District 1 City Commissioner Willie Shaw held a public forum last week to tell residents it's time for them to take their community back from felons.

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Brad Shaw before
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • January 19, 2012
Neighbors: Deirdre Bradshaw

Four years and more than 100 pounds ago, Deirdre Bradshaw read an article about a woman's drastic weight loss and decided it was time to make a change in her life.

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  • Nick Friedman
  • January 19, 2012
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Helbing recognized by Medical Economics; Grapevine earns top agency recognition; Sarasota attorney earns recognition; Manatee Tiger Bay adds Misty Servia

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