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  • April 30, 2009
City mulls furlough, layoffs

To make up for a shortfall of nearly $9 million, the city considers cutting more jobs and asking employees to go unpaid for two weeks.

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  • April 30, 2009
Hands on

Students plant roots for life

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  • April 30, 2009
Observer goes daily

Readers will get three Web sites in one with daily, local news being posted by all three Observer news staffs.

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  • April 30, 2009
Scoreboard

The results of Longboat's bridge games and sports events are in.

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  • April 30, 2009
Deal us in

Too much time

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  • April 30, 2009
Community Calendar

Community Calendar

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  • April 30, 2009
Expansion call

With a learn-to-delegate process nearly complete, an entrepreneur now hopes to continue growing her property management company.

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  • April 30, 2009
Adult turtle found dead

Adult turtle found dead

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  • April 30, 2009
Adult turtle found dead

Adult turtle found dead

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  • April 30, 2009
Pending sales increase for Longboat and surrounding Bird and Lido keys

Pending sales increase for Longboat and surrounding Bird and Lido keys

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  • April 30, 2009
Police keep watch at Broadway beach access

The closure of the North Shore Road beach access weeks ago has led to a busier Broadway beach access, complete with more issues for Longboat Key Police Department.

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  • April 30, 2009
In Brief

COMMUNITY NEWS AND NOTES

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  • April 30, 2009
Lew Simon works to save lives

The president of the island's volunteer fire department has helped create a program formed on Longboat Key called Neighbors Saving Neighbors.

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  • April 30, 2009
Smoking areas coming to Lido

Sarasota banned beach smoking last year but is now creating places for smokers to light up.

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  • April 30, 2009
Key repaving project begins

The repaving project for the Manatee County side of Gulf of Mexico Drive began Monday, with lane closures.

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