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Children enjoy a visit with Santa. Courtesy photo.
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • December 1, 2011
Volunteers take 'flight' for terminally-ill children

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office, the Sarasota/Bradenton Airport Fire Department and others will host the 27th annual Flight to the North Pole Dec. 8. Contributions for the event are being accepted.

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Also at its retreat, the commission nominated Commissioner Christine Robinson as its chair and Commissioner Carolyn Mason as its vice chair for 2012. File photo.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 1, 2011
Commission approves Reid's contract

The Sarasota County Commission unanimously approved new county administrator Randall H. Reid's $190,000 contract Thursday.

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Former Longboat Key Town Manager Bruce St. Denis. File Photo.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 1, 2011
St. Denis to return 401k contribution

According to a memo, the former town manager will return a 401k match that cost the town $10,365.79.

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Rami Nehme, new owner of Blasé Café, says noise complaints lodged recently against his Village restaurant stem from problems at other establishments. Photo by Rachel O'Hara.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • December 1, 2011
Noise problems on the decline

In spite of loud festivities during the pre-Thanksgiving Turkey Trot in the Village, fewer noise violations have been recorded recently.

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  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • December 1, 2011
Majority of condos opposed to FDOT plan

Eight days before a meeting on a pedestrian island proposal for Midnight Pass Road, 27 of 34 condominium complexes had affirmed opposition to the plan.

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The first numbers will be generated after Nov. 30, Virginia Haley, president of the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau said.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • December 1, 2011
US Airways Magazine generates Sarasota buzz

Although she wasn't expecting 'hard numbers' until November ended, Virginia Haley, president of the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau, said this week that she has been hearing lots of positive responses to a US Airways in-flight magazine advertising section about Sarasota.

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  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • December 1, 2011
City tops the Key in tourist tax collections

The City of Sarasota appears to have beaten Siesta Key by seven-tenths of a percent in total tourist tax collections for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.

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  • Observer Staff
  • December 1, 2011
News Briefs

Osprey Avenue closure not to start until Jan. 16; Teen Driver Challenge offered for two weekends

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City officials have designated a sliver of land next to the Palm Avenue parking garage as a hotel site.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 1, 2011
City of Sarasota negotiating with two hotel developers

Sarasota has two companies interested in placing a hotel on a vacant parcel next to the Palm Avenue parking garage.

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 1, 2011
Traffic signal upgrades producing problems

The county is upgrading several traffic signals within the city limits. In the meantime, those signals aren't synchronized.

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The intersection of Ringling Boulevard and Pineapple Avenue became a four-way stop last week to prepare for roundabout construction.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 1, 2011
Multiple projects under way this week

Construction work began this week on two Ringling Boulevard four-lane roundabouts at the same time resurfacing of Fruitville Road began.

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A triangular piece of property on Ringling Boulevard, a block west of U.S. 301, might become a lunch-truck park.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 1, 2011
Fresh concept proposed for parcel

A vacant parcel of land on Ringling Boulevard is being considered for an open-air, lunch-truck park to attract pedestrians and workers to a new downtown lunch spot.

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  • Mark Gordon
  • December 1, 2011
Developer to take on Texas-sized new role

Pineapple Square developer John Simon is confident in the project's success, and he plans to stick around to see to it to fruition.

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  • December 1, 2011
News Briefs

Sarasota begins red-light camera program Dec. 1; Osprey Avenue closure rescheduled for 2012; Palm Avenue garage art murals on display

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  • Observer Staff
  • December 1, 2011
Our view: Don't fall for Internet tax

Cyber Monday - the Black Friday for online retailers - triggered and amplified the debate again: whether online retailers should be required to collect sales taxes just as brick-and-mortar retailers do.

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