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Longboat Key | Neighbors

Lynn Heuston, Brenda Frost, Snookie Register, Erika Matheis, Lorena Noyes and Midge Pescatello Courtesy photo
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 13, 2019
Think pink

Snookie Registered hosted a party Feb. 9 for her friends to support breast cancer research.

  • Longboat Key
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Friday organizer Frank Sulzman and original Friar member Matt Zito are two of about 50 regulars who play each week.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 13, 2019
Friars golf group swings into 25th year

The group, which is the oldest at the Longboat Key Club, is comprised of about 50 regular, experienced players.

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  • Katie Johns
  • February 13, 2019
All Angels grants help

On Jan. 20, at the church’s weekly coffee hour after mass, the outreach committee awarded grants to five organizations.

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    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 12, 2019
John Ramsey speaks to Longboat Republicans

The Republican Club of Longboat hosted its monthly meeting Feb. 12 in the Harbourside Ballroom.

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Longboat Key Democratic Club President Ken Marsh, guest speaker Gary Massel and Bob Gary
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 12, 2019
Longboat Key Democratic Club hears from Gary Massel

More than 80 people gathered for the monthly meeting Feb. 12 in the Harbourside Ballroom.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Suzanne Elliott
  • February 11, 2019
When the gong is struck, Longboat's Longbeach Village Olympics begin

Games will be played throughout the Village.

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    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 10, 2019
All Angels members gather for annual brunch

About 70 church members attended the brunch and meeting on Feb. 10 at Bird Key Yacht Club.

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Valentine’s Day themed vases decorated the lunch table.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 7, 2019
St. Mary Women's Guild welcomes new members

On Feb. 7, Ginny Akhoury hosted the new members and guild members for lunch.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Amelia Hanks
  • February 7, 2019
Author and screenwriter pays Longboat a visit

Author Robert Forte and a team of actors read a few scenes to people at Harbourside.

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  • Observer Staff
  • February 7, 2019
Longboat Key weather page photo: Feb. 7

Michael Cohen photographed this pelican eating a fish in Sarasota Bay near Big Pass.

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    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 6, 2019
Longboat Key Club games for a cure

The annual game day on Feb. 6 benefited Breast Health Sarasota, Inc.

  • Longboat Key
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Sam DiGiammarino plays a teaching game with Booker fifth graders.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 6, 2019
Booker students flip for turtles

During the third, fourth and fifth-grade science classes at Booker Elementary School, students learned all about turtles courtesy of the Longboat Key Turtle Watch.

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Laura and Robert Dutton
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 6, 2019
Happy Birthday, Robert Dutton!

The longtime Longboat Key resident turned 90 on Feb. 4.

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Carol Erker; Susan McGuire; Janet Shapiro; Jack Rozance and Sherri Mills. Courtesy photo
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 6, 2019
Words of wisdom

The Rotary Club handed out more than 150 dictionaries to Tuttle Elementary School fourth-grade students on Jan. 25.

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Nathalie McCulloch and Dr. Lou Bertha McKenzie-Wharton at a Lilly Pulitzer Fashion Show in 2014.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 6, 2019
Nathalie McCulloch volunteered way through life

The longtime Selby Gardens volunteered, 98, died Jan. 30.

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