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Top Story - November: Longboat beaches swarmed by jellyfish

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The Southeast High School band braved a steady rain to help Lake Club's Kevin Swan ask Shaina Frisch a very important question on Oct 28 at the Mandeville Beer Garden in Sarasota.
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Wayne Natt, left, with his attorney, Michael Gelety.
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Fred Lugano, Carol Miller and Rudy Schippers test out the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Longboat Key. The trio did not evacuate Longboat Key during Hurricane Irma.
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Cars waited in line to re-enter the island.
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Top Story - September: Longboat Key reopens to residents after Irma

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A man driving over a flooded roadway drove his car into a drainage ditch, according to officials with the Sarasota Police Department. Officers were able to pull him from the water, but he later died on his way to the hospital.
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Blue Oyster Cult was the headline act at Thunder by the Bay in January, which was one and done in Lakewood Ranch before deciding to return to Sarasota in 2018.
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Alex Kompothecras, one of the show's main cast members, was criticized for his relationship with men show on video tape dragging a shark behind a boat. Kompothecras was not charged in the incident.
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